Beloved Swedish classic novel “The Scarab Flies at Dusk” is being adapted into a premium family adventure series produced by Nordic Drama Queens, the top-notch production label backed by Fifth Season.
Swedish broadcaster Svt has already commissioned the show whose starry cast will be led by Tomas von Brömssen (“My Life as a Dog”), Pernilla August (“‘The Best Intentions”) Dag Malmberg (“The Bridge”) and Lena Endre (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”). Fifth Season is handling worldwide sales on the series and is introducing it to potential buyers attending the Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision.
“Afterglow” filmmaker Atle Knudsen will be directing the series, which is penned by celebrated authors Ditta Bongenhielm (“Bonus Family“) and Lovisa Milles (“Jordskott“).
“The Scarab Flies at Dusk” will be filmed in Västra Götaland and produced by Nordic Drama Queens in collaboration with Svt, Film i Väst, TV2 Norway, Monster As and Dr...
Swedish broadcaster Svt has already commissioned the show whose starry cast will be led by Tomas von Brömssen (“My Life as a Dog”), Pernilla August (“‘The Best Intentions”) Dag Malmberg (“The Bridge”) and Lena Endre (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”). Fifth Season is handling worldwide sales on the series and is introducing it to potential buyers attending the Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision.
“Afterglow” filmmaker Atle Knudsen will be directing the series, which is penned by celebrated authors Ditta Bongenhielm (“Bonus Family“) and Lovisa Milles (“Jordskott“).
“The Scarab Flies at Dusk” will be filmed in Västra Götaland and produced by Nordic Drama Queens in collaboration with Svt, Film i Väst, TV2 Norway, Monster As and Dr...
- 1/30/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Three of the nominees premiered at Cannes 2021.
The five nominees for the lucrative Nordic Council Film Prize have been unveiled at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund today (August 23).
Three of the nominees premiered at Cannes 2021: Iceland’s Lamb, directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson; Norway’s The Worst Person In The World from Joachim Trier; and Sweden’s Clara Sola directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén.
Denmark’s entry is Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland, which debuted at Cannes this year.
Finnish entry The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic, directed by Teemu Nikki, premiered in the Orizzonti...
The five nominees for the lucrative Nordic Council Film Prize have been unveiled at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund today (August 23).
Three of the nominees premiered at Cannes 2021: Iceland’s Lamb, directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson; Norway’s The Worst Person In The World from Joachim Trier; and Sweden’s Clara Sola directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén.
Denmark’s entry is Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland, which debuted at Cannes this year.
Finnish entry The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic, directed by Teemu Nikki, premiered in the Orizzonti...
- 8/23/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Ahlsson’s credits include producing Lisa Langseth’s Pure and executive producing A Man Called Ove.
Producer Helen Ahlsson, whose credits include producing Lisa Langseth’s Pure starring a young Alicia Vikander and executive producing A Man Called Ove, is joining Scandinavian production company Nordic Drama Queens as of September 1.
Ahlsson was previously a producer at Tre Vanner, where she also produced The Fjällbacka Murders, and she most recently worked at the Swedish Film Institute, where she was the head of the new talent initiative Moving Sweden. She was also the Swedish Film Institute’s commissioning editor for international co-productions...
Producer Helen Ahlsson, whose credits include producing Lisa Langseth’s Pure starring a young Alicia Vikander and executive producing A Man Called Ove, is joining Scandinavian production company Nordic Drama Queens as of September 1.
Ahlsson was previously a producer at Tre Vanner, where she also produced The Fjällbacka Murders, and she most recently worked at the Swedish Film Institute, where she was the head of the new talent initiative Moving Sweden. She was also the Swedish Film Institute’s commissioning editor for international co-productions...
- 8/23/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Each recipient gets a development budget of Sek 400,000.
Three 2018 film school graduates have received the Swedish Film Institute’s new Wild Card development funding for feature films.
Each receives a development budget of Sek 400,000.
The funding goes to:
Jerry Carlsson, for Fires (Bränder)
This surrealistic drama will have themes of normality, silence and identity. Carlsson, a graduate of the Swedish Alma screenwriting programme, previously directed the award-winning short Shadow Animals. Fanny Ovesen, for Laura
Laura will be a road movie about a complex female friendship tested on a couch-surfing road trip. Ovesen graduated from the Norwegian Film School with her graduation film She-Pack.
Three 2018 film school graduates have received the Swedish Film Institute’s new Wild Card development funding for feature films.
Each receives a development budget of Sek 400,000.
The funding goes to:
Jerry Carlsson, for Fires (Bränder)
This surrealistic drama will have themes of normality, silence and identity. Carlsson, a graduate of the Swedish Alma screenwriting programme, previously directed the award-winning short Shadow Animals. Fanny Ovesen, for Laura
Laura will be a road movie about a complex female friendship tested on a couch-surfing road trip. Ovesen graduated from the Norwegian Film School with her graduation film She-Pack.
- 11/14/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Moving Sweden is a Swedish Film Institute initiative whose very DNA supports innovation.
Source: Iffr
‘Jimmie’
Rotterdam’s opening film Jimmie is the most innovative project yet backed by Moving Sweden, a Swedish Film Institute initiative whose very DNA supports innovation.
Moving Sweden was launched in 2013 by Sfi film commissioner Andra Lasmanis to help Swedish filmmakers experiment with new formats and bold creative moves. Although it backs many new talents, Moving Sweden is also committed to supporting established filmmakers – like Jesper Ganslandt, who made Jimmie as his fourth feature.
The usual formats backed by Moving Sweden are 30, 45 or 60 minute films, or short series of 6-8 episodes of 12-15 minutes each. That’s where Jimmie is different, as it’s a full feature film of 91 minutes.
The Fasad-produced film, told through the perspective of a four-year-old boy, stars Ganslandt and his real-life son Hunter, as a father and son fleeing Sweden for a safer land during an unnamed...
Source: Iffr
‘Jimmie’
Rotterdam’s opening film Jimmie is the most innovative project yet backed by Moving Sweden, a Swedish Film Institute initiative whose very DNA supports innovation.
Moving Sweden was launched in 2013 by Sfi film commissioner Andra Lasmanis to help Swedish filmmakers experiment with new formats and bold creative moves. Although it backs many new talents, Moving Sweden is also committed to supporting established filmmakers – like Jesper Ganslandt, who made Jimmie as his fourth feature.
The usual formats backed by Moving Sweden are 30, 45 or 60 minute films, or short series of 6-8 episodes of 12-15 minutes each. That’s where Jimmie is different, as it’s a full feature film of 91 minutes.
The Fasad-produced film, told through the perspective of a four-year-old boy, stars Ganslandt and his real-life son Hunter, as a father and son fleeing Sweden for a safer land during an unnamed...
- 1/25/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Catch up with the key news and projects from the Goteborg Film Festival and Nordic Film Market.A warm ‘Welcome’ ahead of Efm
One of the hottest premieres in Goteborg was Welcome To Norway!, the immigration-themed dramedy that was the first film to sell out and later won the Audience Award for best Nordic film. Its industry and press screenings were also packed, setting the film up well as it heads to Berlin’s Efm, where Beta Cinema handles sales.
Director Rune Langlo Denstad said he had the project in mind for more than ten years after he visited a centre for asylum seekers while working on documentary projects. A decade later, the film couldn’t be more topical.
The story follows Primus (Anders Baasmo Christiansen), a desperate and somewhat racist hotel owner in a remote Norwegian village who wants to turn his hotel into a home for asylum seekers to cash in on government funding. Of course...
One of the hottest premieres in Goteborg was Welcome To Norway!, the immigration-themed dramedy that was the first film to sell out and later won the Audience Award for best Nordic film. Its industry and press screenings were also packed, setting the film up well as it heads to Berlin’s Efm, where Beta Cinema handles sales.
Director Rune Langlo Denstad said he had the project in mind for more than ten years after he visited a centre for asylum seekers while working on documentary projects. A decade later, the film couldn’t be more topical.
The story follows Primus (Anders Baasmo Christiansen), a desperate and somewhat racist hotel owner in a remote Norwegian village who wants to turn his hotel into a home for asylum seekers to cash in on government funding. Of course...
- 2/8/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Not all projects should be made or released just because they go through film labs, says Bero Beyer.
The new artistic director of International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), Bero Beyer, has questioned the role of talent schemes across the industry, saying there is a need to curate “gems” among a glut of “mediocre” features.
Speaking on the second day of CineMart, Iffr’s long-established co-production market, Beyer said: “It seems as if the R&D department of the film industry has moved to funds and festivals, in particular to specialised talent development programs that have grown into alternate financing models for feature films.”
Beyer, previously an independent producer on films such as Paradise Now and Atlantic., said having the weight of a major festival behind a project provided an advantage to features from young filmmakers and was not typical of the indie film process.
“Several schemes have been initiated to create a space for artistic freedom,” he said...
The new artistic director of International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), Bero Beyer, has questioned the role of talent schemes across the industry, saying there is a need to curate “gems” among a glut of “mediocre” features.
Speaking on the second day of CineMart, Iffr’s long-established co-production market, Beyer said: “It seems as if the R&D department of the film industry has moved to funds and festivals, in particular to specialised talent development programs that have grown into alternate financing models for feature films.”
Beyer, previously an independent producer on films such as Paradise Now and Atlantic., said having the weight of a major festival behind a project provided an advantage to features from young filmmakers and was not typical of the indie film process.
“Several schemes have been initiated to create a space for artistic freedom,” he said...
- 2/1/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sweden’s Tre Vanner and Norway’s Motlys team for prestigious crime thriller based on Karin Fossum bestseller.
Hans Petter Moland, who premieres In Order Of Disappearance in Berlinale Competition, will direct The Indian Bride (Elskede Poona), adapted from Karin Fossum’s bestseller of the same title. The film is set for a summer 2015 shoot in India and rural Norway on a budget of €4-5m.
The psychological drama/tragic love story will be produced as a joint venture between Scandinavian powerhouses Tre Vanner/Svensk (Sweden) and Motlys (Norway). The lead producers are Helen Ahlsson (The Fjallbacka Murders) of Tre Vanner/Svensk and Yngve Saether (The Orheim Company) of Motlys.
Erlend Loe, novelist and award-winning screenwriter, adapts the script. He says of the film: “It’s a different kind of crime story, it’s much more into character and just being there, its not a mathematical unfolding of plot.”
Ahlsson, who said...
Hans Petter Moland, who premieres In Order Of Disappearance in Berlinale Competition, will direct The Indian Bride (Elskede Poona), adapted from Karin Fossum’s bestseller of the same title. The film is set for a summer 2015 shoot in India and rural Norway on a budget of €4-5m.
The psychological drama/tragic love story will be produced as a joint venture between Scandinavian powerhouses Tre Vanner/Svensk (Sweden) and Motlys (Norway). The lead producers are Helen Ahlsson (The Fjallbacka Murders) of Tre Vanner/Svensk and Yngve Saether (The Orheim Company) of Motlys.
Erlend Loe, novelist and award-winning screenwriter, adapts the script. He says of the film: “It’s a different kind of crime story, it’s much more into character and just being there, its not a mathematical unfolding of plot.”
Ahlsson, who said...
- 2/8/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Cologne -- The Scandinavian crime wave continues at Tre Vanner, the Swedish production company behind drug-dealing thriller "Easy Money," which on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging film and TV deal with bestselling crime author Camilla Lackberg.
Lackberg and Tre Vanner will develop a 10 x 90 minute television series based on the characters in her crime novels. The series, called "The Fjallbacka Murders" will be set in the small Swedish town of Fjallbacka, where Lackberg was born and where all her novels take place. Lackberg will write original storylines for the series. Michael Hjorth of Tre Vanner will executive produce the series, with Helen Ahlsson on board as lead producer. Tre Vanner will be selling "The Fjallbacka Murders" at Mipcom in Cannes next week.
In a separate deal Tre Vanner picked up film and TV adaptation rights to Lackberg's last three novels: "Fyrvaktaren" (The Lighthouse Keeper), "Sjojungfrun" (The Mermaid) and "Tyskungen" (The German...
Lackberg and Tre Vanner will develop a 10 x 90 minute television series based on the characters in her crime novels. The series, called "The Fjallbacka Murders" will be set in the small Swedish town of Fjallbacka, where Lackberg was born and where all her novels take place. Lackberg will write original storylines for the series. Michael Hjorth of Tre Vanner will executive produce the series, with Helen Ahlsson on board as lead producer. Tre Vanner will be selling "The Fjallbacka Murders" at Mipcom in Cannes next week.
In a separate deal Tre Vanner picked up film and TV adaptation rights to Lackberg's last three novels: "Fyrvaktaren" (The Lighthouse Keeper), "Sjojungfrun" (The Mermaid) and "Tyskungen" (The German...
- 9/28/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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