Troll Hunter and Max Manus producer Sveinung Golimo (pictured) has just been appointed Head of the Norwegian Film Institute’s Development and Production Department. He replaces Ivar Køhn who joins the Norwegian broadcasting corporation NRK as Head of Drama.
Since 2001 Golimo (38) has been running the daily operations of Filmkameratene, one of Norway’s most established film production companies run by John M. Jacobsen. From 2005-2009 he was Chairman of the Norwegian Film & Television Producers Association.
Golimo signed a six year contract with the NFI and will take up his job in the spring 2014 once he has completed his productions for Filmkameratene. He will join the institute’s management team with CEO Sindre Guldvog who will shortly replace the current managing director Nina Refseth.
The young producer is currently overseeing Filmkameratene’s first TV drama series The Heavy Water War (Kampen om tungtvannet) directed by Per Olav Sørensen (The Half Brother), set to start filming at the end of the month, as well as two feature films also ready to roll. Burning (Børning) is the directorial debut of Troll Hunter cinematographer Hallvard Bræn, an action comedy about a car race starring Anders Baasmo Chistiansen, and Operation Arctic (Operasjon Arktis) is a family movie written and directed by Grethe Bøe (Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat).