All articles by Jorn Rossing Jensen – Page 14
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Norwegian fund to back non-Western films
Backed by the Norwegian Foreign and Culture Ministries, Films from the South (Film fra Sør) – Oslo’s international film festival, which has since 1991 presented an annual programme of 100 features and documentaries from Asia, Africa and Latin America – has set up a fund to support film production in ...
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Lubeck to show 140 films from Scandinavia, Baltics
Selections include Shameless and Home For Christmas.
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Aberg returns with The Stig-Helmer Story
After 11 years off-screen, Swedish writer-director-actor Lasse Åberg – whose comedies have generated over SEK 300 million ($45 million) domestic box office – is back behind and in front of the camera.
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Norway's digital rollout to be complete ahead of schedule
Norway’s complete, national digital roll out – the first in the world, including 414 screens all over the country – will be ready before next summer, a year ahead of the original schedule.
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Persson raises $50,000 in crowd funding for Pirate bay documentary
Swedish producer Martin Persson has raised more than $50,000 to date in crowd funding for Simon Klose’s documentary TBK AFK–The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard.
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Denmark picks Bier's In a Better World for Oscar race
Danish director Susanne Bier will have a second chance at the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, after the Danish Oscar committee yesterday [23] decided to submit her eleventh feature, In A Better World (Hævnen), as Denmark’s candidate for the nominations this year. Bier’s After the Wedding (Efter Brylluppet) was ...
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Norway selects Angel for Oscar race
Maria Vonnevie stars as a heroin addict who wants a better life for her daughter.
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Finland selects Steam Of Life as foreign Oscar submission
It is the first time the country has selected a documentary as its foreign Oscar contender
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Simple Simon to represent Sweden in Oscar race
Swedish director Andreas Öhman’s feature debut, Simple Simon (I rymden finns inga känslor), has entered the race for an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature.
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Arne Dahl's Swedish detectives readied for film-TV project
Sweden’s A-team – the local equivalent of CSI, a highly-trained special unit of detectives, created by Swedish writer Arne Dahl – is ready for the screen.
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Richard Hober returns to film with Antibes
After five years working in the theatre, Swedish writer-director Richard Hober will return to the screen, having started started principal photography for A One-Way to Antibes (En enkel till Antibes), starring Swedish actor-singer Sven-Bertil Taube, at Luleå in northern Sweden.
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Nordic Council Film Prize nominees include Vinterberg, Kari
Other nominees are Berghall/Hotakainen, Johnsen, Saleh.
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Finland's Markus Selin lines up six more Vares thrillers
At least two of the features, which will be shot back to back, will be theatrical releases.
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Unfinished Lars von Trier film Dimension headed to DVD
Twenty-five minutes of the film shot more than 30 years ago will be on DVD later this month; von Trier had shelved it in late 1990s.
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Vinca Wiedemann joins Zentropa as producer
Former film consultant with the Danish Film Institute, Vinca Wiedemann, hans joined Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen’s production outfit, Zentropa Entertainments.
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Record industry attendees head to New Nordic Films in Haugesund
The market, co-production and film financing forum (Aug 18-21) also boasts 13 world premieres in market programme.
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Lars Grarup joins Nordisk Film as development director
In his new role the former media director of Danish public broadcaster DR will initiate feature film projects as well as boosting TV drama.
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Denmark to have 30% digital conversion by end of year
The 3D format came off to a flying start in 2010, when US director James Cameron’s Avatar sold 1.2 million tickets.
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The Writing On The Wall to launch second Varg Veum series
The latest film is the first of six new thrillers featuring the Norwegian dectective.