Writers Johan Fasting, Silje Storstein, and Kristin Grue are the recipients of the 2024 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for their political drama Power Play (Makta).
The trio were awarded the prize Tuesday evening during a ceremony on the first day of the Göteborg Film Festival’s series focused sidebar TV Drama Vision.
As part of the award, they will share a Nok 200 000 (approx € 20 000) award, funded by the Nordisk Film & TV fund. This is the eighth year Göteborg has been the home of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize. This year’s jury included Vinca Wiedemann, editor, producer, and screenwriter (Denmark); Joel Spira, actor, (Sweden); Kateryna Vyshnevska, producer (Ukraine); and Charlotte Winberg, journalist and critic (Finland).
Announcing this evening’s win, the jury said: “Choosing a winner from a diverse array of such high-quality drama has been both a privilege and a pleasure for us, the jury. The nominees have...
The trio were awarded the prize Tuesday evening during a ceremony on the first day of the Göteborg Film Festival’s series focused sidebar TV Drama Vision.
As part of the award, they will share a Nok 200 000 (approx € 20 000) award, funded by the Nordisk Film & TV fund. This is the eighth year Göteborg has been the home of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize. This year’s jury included Vinca Wiedemann, editor, producer, and screenwriter (Denmark); Joel Spira, actor, (Sweden); Kateryna Vyshnevska, producer (Ukraine); and Charlotte Winberg, journalist and critic (Finland).
Announcing this evening’s win, the jury said: “Choosing a winner from a diverse array of such high-quality drama has been both a privilege and a pleasure for us, the jury. The nominees have...
- 1/30/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
“Power Play” – a scathing, scabrous chronicle of Gro Harlem Brundtland unlikely climb to power as Norway and Scandinavia’s first woman prime minister – won the 2024 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for best drama series screenwriting at Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival Tuesday night.
Awarded at the fest’s TV Drama Vision, the prize went to the satirical series’ main writers Johan Fasting, Silje Storstein and Kristin Grue. The Nordic drama series screenwriting award carries a cash prize of €20,000.
With the Nftfp win, “Power Play,” like “Blackport” before it, completes a double of winning a top TV fest in Europe – it walked off with best series at Canneseries last year – and then the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize.
While Nordic Noir exposed human evil festering below Scandinavia’s acclaimed social democracy, “Power Play” underscores a more recent TV phenomenon of exposing the myth to that model and its decline via comedy and farce.
Awarded at the fest’s TV Drama Vision, the prize went to the satirical series’ main writers Johan Fasting, Silje Storstein and Kristin Grue. The Nordic drama series screenwriting award carries a cash prize of €20,000.
With the Nftfp win, “Power Play,” like “Blackport” before it, completes a double of winning a top TV fest in Europe – it walked off with best series at Canneseries last year – and then the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize.
While Nordic Noir exposed human evil festering below Scandinavia’s acclaimed social democracy, “Power Play” underscores a more recent TV phenomenon of exposing the myth to that model and its decline via comedy and farce.
- 1/30/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Norwegian writer-director Kenneth Karlstad has won the 2023 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for his gritty coming-of-age series Kids in Crime.
Karlstad was awarded the prize Wednesday evening during a ceremony on the first day of the Göteborg Film Festival’s series focused sidebar TV Drama Vision.
As part of the award, Karlstad receives a Nok 200,000 cash prize, funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
This is the seventh year Göteborg has been awarded the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize. This year’s jury comprised actor Amanda Collin, producer Nebojša Taraba, journalist Wanda Bendjelloul, and producer Leif Holst Jensen.
Announcing Karlstad’s win, the jury said: “We have based our evaluation on three main criteria: craft, relevance, and originality. The winner has it all. It’s based on a true universe from a certain time. The authenticity, honesty, brutality, and friendship drive the story and engage the audience. Accuracy, details,...
Karlstad was awarded the prize Wednesday evening during a ceremony on the first day of the Göteborg Film Festival’s series focused sidebar TV Drama Vision.
As part of the award, Karlstad receives a Nok 200,000 cash prize, funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
This is the seventh year Göteborg has been awarded the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize. This year’s jury comprised actor Amanda Collin, producer Nebojša Taraba, journalist Wanda Bendjelloul, and producer Leif Holst Jensen.
Announcing Karlstad’s win, the jury said: “We have based our evaluation on three main criteria: craft, relevance, and originality. The winner has it all. It’s based on a true universe from a certain time. The authenticity, honesty, brutality, and friendship drive the story and engage the audience. Accuracy, details,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
With a top prize of $44,000 it is one of the world’s most lucrative film awards.
Denmark won big with the two Dragon awards handed out in Goteborg on February 5, with Tea Lindeburg’s As In Heaven winning the prize for best Nordic film. With a prize of $44,000, it is one of the world’s most lucrative film awards.
The film, which previously won best director and best actress at San Sebastian, is about a girl in the 19thcentury who hopes to leave her family’s farm to be the first in her family to study. Her future prospects change...
Denmark won big with the two Dragon awards handed out in Goteborg on February 5, with Tea Lindeburg’s As In Heaven winning the prize for best Nordic film. With a prize of $44,000, it is one of the world’s most lucrative film awards.
The film, which previously won best director and best actress at San Sebastian, is about a girl in the 19thcentury who hopes to leave her family’s farm to be the first in her family to study. Her future prospects change...
- 2/7/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Danish debut feature helmer-writer Tea Lindeburg’s period drama “As In Heaven,” that portrays a fateful summer day and night in 19th century farming society, came away the biggest winner at the 44th Göteborg Film Festival, scoring on Saturday the best Nordic film kudo, this year worth approx. $44,000.
Meanwhile, Seidi Haarla of Finland’s Oscar-shortlisted drama, “Compartment No. 6” took the best acting prize. The film, helmed by Juho Kuosmanen, also nabbed the Fipresci critics nod.
Norway-born Dp Sturla Brandth Grøvlen claimed the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award for his work on the Norwegian film “The Innocents,” directed by Eskil Vogt. The perfectly executed thriller about rival playmates with paranormal abilities also took the audience award for best Nordic film.
Danish helmer Simon Lereng Wilmont captured the best Nordic documentary title and a purse of approx. $27,000 for “A House Made Of Splinters,” a masterful portrayal of the children and daily life at an orphanage in Eastern Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Seidi Haarla of Finland’s Oscar-shortlisted drama, “Compartment No. 6” took the best acting prize. The film, helmed by Juho Kuosmanen, also nabbed the Fipresci critics nod.
Norway-born Dp Sturla Brandth Grøvlen claimed the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award for his work on the Norwegian film “The Innocents,” directed by Eskil Vogt. The perfectly executed thriller about rival playmates with paranormal abilities also took the audience award for best Nordic film.
Danish helmer Simon Lereng Wilmont captured the best Nordic documentary title and a purse of approx. $27,000 for “A House Made Of Splinters,” a masterful portrayal of the children and daily life at an orphanage in Eastern Ukraine.
- 2/5/2022
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Icelandic smash hit drama series “Blackport” won on Wednesday the 2022 Nordisk Film & TV Prize, Scandinavia’s top plaudit for drama series writing.
The award was announced on site at the end of an intense first day of conference panels at the Göteborg Festival’s TV Drama Vision, with two of the series’ three writers, Gísli Örn Garðarsson and Mikael Torfason on stage to collect the Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award, carrying a €20,000 cash prize. They were accompanied by producer Nina Dögg Filippusdóttir. The prize also went to fellow screenwriter Björn Hlynur Haraldsson.
Clinching the Nftf Prize, “Blackport” has scored a remarkable triple, winning the Series Mania Award at the Berlinale Series Market’s 2018 Co-Pro Series competition after an inspired on-stage pitch by Garðarsson and going on to take the top prize at Series Mania last September.
“Blackport” fought off stiff competition from Oscar-nominated Danish director Lone Sherfig’s “The Shift,...
The award was announced on site at the end of an intense first day of conference panels at the Göteborg Festival’s TV Drama Vision, with two of the series’ three writers, Gísli Örn Garðarsson and Mikael Torfason on stage to collect the Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award, carrying a €20,000 cash prize. They were accompanied by producer Nina Dögg Filippusdóttir. The prize also went to fellow screenwriter Björn Hlynur Haraldsson.
Clinching the Nftf Prize, “Blackport” has scored a remarkable triple, winning the Series Mania Award at the Berlinale Series Market’s 2018 Co-Pro Series competition after an inspired on-stage pitch by Garðarsson and going on to take the top prize at Series Mania last September.
“Blackport” fought off stiff competition from Oscar-nominated Danish director Lone Sherfig’s “The Shift,...
- 2/3/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Already celebrating the success of a top win at Series Mania, as well as 80% national audience approval, RÚV’s Icelandic series “Blackport” has now been nominated for 2022’s 6th Nordisk Film and TV Fond Prize at Göteborg. The prize will be presented during the film festival’s industry conference TV Drama Vision on Feb. 2, and serves to reward exemplary writing in Nordic drama series.
“Blackport,” which follows Iceland’s 1980s fishing quota power struggle, is tightly paced for action, and the three nominated writers pull no punches, leaving only their characters’ arms to the cutting room floor. Two “Blackport’s” writers – Gísli Örn Gardarsson and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson – direct and star in the series. Writer Mikael Torfason is also nominated for the prize.
Variety spoke with all three of the nominated writers ahead of the Göteborg Film Festival.
How well known is the story of “Blackport” among Icelanders? How much...
“Blackport,” which follows Iceland’s 1980s fishing quota power struggle, is tightly paced for action, and the three nominated writers pull no punches, leaving only their characters’ arms to the cutting room floor. Two “Blackport’s” writers – Gísli Örn Gardarsson and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson – direct and star in the series. Writer Mikael Torfason is also nominated for the prize.
Variety spoke with all three of the nominated writers ahead of the Göteborg Film Festival.
How well known is the story of “Blackport” among Icelanders? How much...
- 1/31/2022
- by JD Linville
- Variety Film + TV
Showrun by Oscar-nominated Danish director Lone Sherfig, “The Shift” will battle it out with Series Mania top winner “Blackport” and Canneseries winner “Countrymen” for 2022’s 6th Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize.
Also in contention are Finnish crime drama “Transport” and psychological thriller “Vi y Villa,” an early show from Sweden’s Discovery Plus.
All five titles, however diverse, underscore the strong social issue drive of much upscale Nordic and indeed European drama, affording a snapshot of larger tensions coursing society at large.
Winners of the Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award, which goes to a show’s main writer, will receive a €20,000 cash prize, announced during the Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision, a highlight of the festival, on Feb. 2.
“Good scripts form the basis of our strong Nordic drama series,. Writing talents should be cherished every day and celebrated through script honours and awards,” commented Liselott Forsman, CEO of...
Also in contention are Finnish crime drama “Transport” and psychological thriller “Vi y Villa,” an early show from Sweden’s Discovery Plus.
All five titles, however diverse, underscore the strong social issue drive of much upscale Nordic and indeed European drama, affording a snapshot of larger tensions coursing society at large.
Winners of the Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award, which goes to a show’s main writer, will receive a €20,000 cash prize, announced during the Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision, a highlight of the festival, on Feb. 2.
“Good scripts form the basis of our strong Nordic drama series,. Writing talents should be cherished every day and celebrated through script honours and awards,” commented Liselott Forsman, CEO of...
- 12/14/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Thriller set to shoot on Iceland.
Iceland’s Truenorth is planning its first English-language film, The Hidden, a thriller that could be ready to shoot in the Icelandic highlands by the end of this year.
Truenorth is in talks with Us partners on the project. The plot follows American geologists in Iceland who disturb “hidden people.” Thor Saevarsson will direct from a script by Ottar Nordfjord.
“We’re interested in moving more in that kind of project in the English language and partnering with international finance,” said Truenorth’s Kristinn Thordarson.
Truenorth is celebrating another first as co-producer on Netflix’s maiden Icelandic series,...
Iceland’s Truenorth is planning its first English-language film, The Hidden, a thriller that could be ready to shoot in the Icelandic highlands by the end of this year.
Truenorth is in talks with Us partners on the project. The plot follows American geologists in Iceland who disturb “hidden people.” Thor Saevarsson will direct from a script by Ottar Nordfjord.
“We’re interested in moving more in that kind of project in the English language and partnering with international finance,” said Truenorth’s Kristinn Thordarson.
Truenorth is celebrating another first as co-producer on Netflix’s maiden Icelandic series,...
- 2/12/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Goteborg, Sweden — Netflix is co-producing its first Icelandic series, “The Valhalla Murders,” a crime show created and directed by newcomer Þórður Pálsson and produced by Truenorth and Mystery Productions for RÚV. The deal was announced today at the Göteborg Festival by Netflix’s director of co-productions and acquisitionsLina Brounéus.
Half-way through its Icelandic shoot, the eight-part crime series “The Valhalla Murders” is produced by Truenorth’s Kristinn Thordarson and Leifur B. Dagfinnsson with Mystery Productions’ David Oskar Olafsson for Icelandic public broadcaster RÚV. Streaming giant Netflix has boarded the €5.5m ($6.3 million) series as co-producer.
Thanks to Netflix’s investment and pre-sales closed earlier by Dr Sales, half the series’ overall cost comes from overseas, according to RÚV.
Truenorth’s Thordarson told Variety: “We are extremely pleased to have signed this ground-breaking deal with Netflix. This is a validation of our efforts to bring the best quality content to the...
Half-way through its Icelandic shoot, the eight-part crime series “The Valhalla Murders” is produced by Truenorth’s Kristinn Thordarson and Leifur B. Dagfinnsson with Mystery Productions’ David Oskar Olafsson for Icelandic public broadcaster RÚV. Streaming giant Netflix has boarded the €5.5m ($6.3 million) series as co-producer.
Thanks to Netflix’s investment and pre-sales closed earlier by Dr Sales, half the series’ overall cost comes from overseas, according to RÚV.
Truenorth’s Thordarson told Variety: “We are extremely pleased to have signed this ground-breaking deal with Netflix. This is a validation of our efforts to bring the best quality content to the...
- 1/31/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
’Agnes Joy’ is Silja Hauksdóttir’s second film.
Silja Hauksdóttir’s mother-daughter drama Agnes Joy (working title), produced by Birgitta Björnsdóttir at Vintage Pictures, has started shooting in Iceland. Screen exclusively reveals the first photo here.
Hauksdóttir wrote the script with Rannveig Jónsdóttir, who also produces, and Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir.
The film is being co-produced by Mikael Torfason and Guðbjörg Sigurðardóttir and is backed byThe Icelandic Film Centre, distributor Sena, broadcaster Ruv and a private equity investor.
The cast features Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdottir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Donna Cruz, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Kristinn Óli Haraldsson.
The comedy drama is about a...
Silja Hauksdóttir’s mother-daughter drama Agnes Joy (working title), produced by Birgitta Björnsdóttir at Vintage Pictures, has started shooting in Iceland. Screen exclusively reveals the first photo here.
Hauksdóttir wrote the script with Rannveig Jónsdóttir, who also produces, and Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir.
The film is being co-produced by Mikael Torfason and Guðbjörg Sigurðardóttir and is backed byThe Icelandic Film Centre, distributor Sena, broadcaster Ruv and a private equity investor.
The cast features Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdottir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Donna Cruz, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Kristinn Óli Haraldsson.
The comedy drama is about a...
- 11/8/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
’Agnes Joy’ is Silja Hauksdóttir’s second film.
Silja Hauksdóttir’s mother-daughter drama Agnes Joy (working title), produced by Birgitta Björnsdóttir at Vintage Pictures, has started shooting in Iceland. Screen exclusively reveals the first photo here.
Hauksdóttir wrote the script with Rannveig Jónsdóttir, who also produces, and Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir.
The film is being co-produced by Mikael Torfason and Guðbjörg Sigurðardóttir and is backed byThe Icelandic Film Centre, distributor Sena, broadcaster Ruv and a private equity investor.
The cast features Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdottir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Donna Cruz, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Kristinn Óli Haraldsson.
The comedy drama is about a...
Silja Hauksdóttir’s mother-daughter drama Agnes Joy (working title), produced by Birgitta Björnsdóttir at Vintage Pictures, has started shooting in Iceland. Screen exclusively reveals the first photo here.
Hauksdóttir wrote the script with Rannveig Jónsdóttir, who also produces, and Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir.
The film is being co-produced by Mikael Torfason and Guðbjörg Sigurðardóttir and is backed byThe Icelandic Film Centre, distributor Sena, broadcaster Ruv and a private equity investor.
The cast features Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdottir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Donna Cruz, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Kristinn Óli Haraldsson.
The comedy drama is about a...
- 11/8/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Eight new drama series projects among co-pro line-up.
Source: X-Filme
Babylon Berlin
For the fourth time, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will invite producers, commissioning editors, distributors, and other drama series financiers to the Zoo Palast for the pitch event CoPro Series, mounted as part of the Drama Series Days 2018 (February 19 – 21).
Scroll down for line-up
In previous years, CoPro Series has hosted drama series projects looking for partners that have since become successful series, such as Babylon Berlin created by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Henk Handloegten, as well as Das Verschwinden (The Disappearance) by Hans-Christian Schmid, or Norway’s Valkyrien by Erik Richter Strand.
This year, eight new series projects have the chance to find co-production and financing partners. The creators will present a short pitch, followed by an opportunity to meet both at an informal get-together and in one-on-one meetings with interested partners to talk in concrete terms about a possible collaboration.
Two German projects...
Source: X-Filme
Babylon Berlin
For the fourth time, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will invite producers, commissioning editors, distributors, and other drama series financiers to the Zoo Palast for the pitch event CoPro Series, mounted as part of the Drama Series Days 2018 (February 19 – 21).
Scroll down for line-up
In previous years, CoPro Series has hosted drama series projects looking for partners that have since become successful series, such as Babylon Berlin created by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Henk Handloegten, as well as Das Verschwinden (The Disappearance) by Hans-Christian Schmid, or Norway’s Valkyrien by Erik Richter Strand.
This year, eight new series projects have the chance to find co-production and financing partners. The creators will present a short pitch, followed by an opportunity to meet both at an informal get-together and in one-on-one meetings with interested partners to talk in concrete terms about a possible collaboration.
Two German projects...
- 1/19/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- ScreenDaily
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