Nordisk Film & TV Fond has partnered the leading genre industry platform Frontières International Co-Production Market to expand the reach of its Nordic Genre Boost initiative.
The bi-annual Frontières International Co-Production Market unfolds during Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival in July and the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in April. At each event 20 selected projects are pitched to more than 300 industry leaders.
Through the deal with Nordisk Film & TV Fond, each of the seven Nordic Genre Boost projects recipient of a NOK200,000 development grant, will be submitted to the Frontières Co-production Market in Brussels (March 30-April 1, 2016) and one of them will be selected.
Petri Kemppinen, Head of Nordisk Film & TV Fond said: “Nordic Genre Boost has received tremendous response during its first year. Frontières is the key forum for genre film professionals and the right partner to boost the needed market exposure and response from outside the Nordic region.”
Lindsay Peters, Frontières Market & Industry Director said: “At Frontières, one of our central goals is to continually build and expand the genre film community, and partnering with initiatives like the ‘Nordic Genre Boost’ fits into this perfectly. The focus on script development makes this event an ideal training ground for Frontières, which focuses on co-production, financing, and pre-sales.”
Peters continues: “The Nordic genre industry has an extremely strong track record of both artistic innovation and financial success. Let the Right One In continues to be a touchstone for mainstream foreign film success. And films that may fall outside strict genre categories, such as In Oder of Disappearance and Bridgend, are also finding great success on the genre festival circuit, so I think there is a really strong demand and eagerness for the Nordic perspective in the genre film industry that is only continuing to grow.”
The Nordic Genre Boost projects are Denmark’s Border by Ali Abbasi and Teenage Jesus by Marie Grathø Nordaas, Finland’s Bloodsuckers by Elin Grönblom and Bodom by Taneli Mustonen, Iceland’s The Highlands by Ragnar Bragason, Norway’s Bright Skies by André Øvredal and Thale-Conflux by Aleksander Nordaas.
The seven projects will first be pitched at the upcoming New Nordic Films in Haugesund (August 18-21, 2016).
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