All articles by Jorn Rossing Jensen – Page 7
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NewsSwedish Film Institute backs eight new features with $5.8m
Films backed include new projects from Måns Mårling & Björn Stein [pictured], Daniel Alfredson and Stig Björkman.
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NewsNiels Arden Oplev to return to Denmark for next feature
Director is currently shooting his first US feature Dead Man Down.
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NewsEchoes From The Dead starts shoot
Daniel Alfredson’s mystery drama will shoot in Cuba and Sweden.
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NewsSwedish Film Institute backs Bergstrom's Miss Julie, Langseth's Hotel
Other projects backed include Kicki Kjellin’s feature debut and co-productions with Spain and the Netherlands.
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NewsFilm i Vast joins Nymphomaniac, Centenarian, Diana, Lindblom project
Jessica Ask serves as Film i Vast production chief.
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NewsMotlys readies slate including Myren and Vogt debuts
Norwegian producer Sigve Endresen, of Oslo-based production outfit Motlys, is building on the outfit’s recent success with the likes of TurnMe On, Goddammit; Oslo, August 31; and The Orheim Company with a busy slate.
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NewsDenward to leave Swedish Film Institute to join Svensk
The Swedish Film Institute’s Head of Production Funding and Promotion Charlotte Denward will become the new production chief at Swedish major, Svensk Filmindustri, as of November 1.
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NewsKon-Tiki scores record opening weekend admissions in Norway
Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure Kon-Tiki – Norway’s most expensive feature so far, shot on a $15.7m (NOK 93m) budget – took a record number of 164,191 admissions during its opening weekend on 185 screens at all theatres in Norway.
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NewsNorwegian companies pioneer transmission of films to cinemas via internet not DCPs
A subsidiary of Sweden’s Bonnier, Scandinavia’s largest media group, Norway’s No 1 distributor SF Norge has signed a two-year contract with UK’s Unique Digital and Bug Norway to transmit films to the theatres on the internet without the use of DCP hard discs.
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NewsI Belong, Kon-Tiki, The Angels' Share among Haugesund winners
Haugesund festival wraps to industry acclaim.
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NewsTurn Me On, Goddammitt! wins best film at Norway's Amanda awards
Babycall wins four prizes; Joachim Trier named best director for Oslo, August 31.
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CommentSpecial delivery DVD
When Danish actress-writer-director Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis’ feature debut, This Life (aka The Hvidsten Group/Hvidsten-Gruppen) is released on DVD on Aug 20, the first disc will arrive at the Hvidsten Inn near Randers in Jutland by … parachute.
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NewsIceland follows Oblivion and Noah shoots with Walter Mitty
Country offers 20% rebate on local spend.
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NewsNew Nordic Films market in Haugesund to welcome 343 professionals
A record number of 343 film professionals from 28 countries, including 100 buyers and sellers, will today arrive at the Norwegian coastal city of Haugesund for New Nordic Films, the four-day market section preceding the Norwegian International Film Festival between August 18-23.
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NewsDagur Kari to direct Nimbus' Tordenskiold epic
Lars Bredo Rahbek of Denmark’s Nimbus Film to produce film about Norwegian nobleman and naval officer; Morten Tyldum already at work on rival project.
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NewsRising Danish director Bjarup Riis takes over Karen Blixen biopic
Tanne formerly had Bille August attached. The project is one of 16 being presented at New Nordic Films Market in Haugesund.
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NewsHaugesund to kick off 40th anniversary festival with hotly anticipated Kon-Tiki
Other local productions to screen include Karlovy Vary winner The Almost Man, I Belong and documentary Bravehearts.
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NewsLiberian government to take legal action against doc director Mads Brugger
Action centres around Brügger allegedly using a fake diplomat title in documentary The Ambassador.