Power To The Pixel - October 13, 14, 2010

July 13, 2010
Power to the Pixel has announces the Pixel Market which will take place on 13 and 14 October 2010 in London. Applications are now open to find 20 of the world's best cross-media projects.  Up to 10 of the teams will compete for the £6,000 ARTE PIXEL PITCH PRIZE at Power to the Pixel's public event. Producers will present their cross-media project to a handpicked roundtable of international judges. Entries are invited from producer-led teams with projects at an advanced stage of development.  Deadline for applications is 6 August. Further information please go to www.powertothepixel.com.

 

Nordic Council Film Prize - 2010 - Is Coming

The five nominated films for the 2010 Nordic Council Film Prize will be announced on Tuesday, August 24, 2010. For more information about Nordic Council Film Prize, including previous winners and nominated films, click here.

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Nordic Talents - 2010

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Have A Good Summer Break

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Margreth Olin Wins Liv Ullmann Ærespris

June 24, 2010
Norwegian producer/director Margreth Olin (photo) has been awarded the prestigious Liv Ullmann Ærespris (Honorary Award) and its NOK100,000 cash prize. The award is given out to a female filmmaker who has distinguished herself as a filmmaker and in her artistic contribution to Norwegian cinema or TV drama. Previous winners were actress Ane Dahl Torp (2006) and filmmaker Anja Breien (2008). This year's jury consisted of Nina Refseth, Head of the Norwegian Film Institute, Gunnar Løvvik, managing director of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, and Sverre Pedersen, head of the Norwegian Film Workers' Association.

Zentropa Gets €1.2m From Eurimages

June 23, 2010
Zentropa's upcoming Melancholia by Lars von Trier and A Royal Affair (Caroline Mathildes år) by Nikolaj Arcel have each received €600,000 from the Council of Europe's Eurimages production fund. Melancholia is co-produced with Sweden (Memfis Film), France (Slot Machine) and Zentropa International Köln (Germany). Filming will start in Sweden on July 19 with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kirsten Dust, Alexander and Stellan Skarsgård in leading roles. A Royal Affair is co-produced with Sweden (Trollhättan AB), Latvia (Film Angel Studios) and Ireland (Subotica Entertainment). The film tells the story of a young queen who is married to an insane king. Both films were supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

Nordic Talents - 2010 - Register Here

June 22, 2010
Nordic Talents 2010, September 1 - 3 takes place in Copenhagen and is the 10th anniversary of Nordic Talents and the 20th anniversary of of Nordisk Film & TV Fond.  

Who is invited:
The Nordic Film industry and Nordic film school graduation students of 2010 are invited. Nordic Talents is free of charge and includes lunch, dinner, coffee and tea etc.  Special hotel rates are also available. There is a maximum of 200 participants - based on first come first serve.

Don't miss out on our guest speakers, screenings, pitching sessions, networking opportunities and much more.

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Varg Veum Festival On US TV

June 21, 2010
Mid-July, the US independent, non-commercial TV broadcaster MHz Network is going to bring to 27 million US households the Norwegian crime series Varg Veum produced by Miso Film and SF, with support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond. It's the first time the US broadcaster makes such a strong focus on one of its series from its international mystery slot. The six Varg Veum films based on Gunnar Staalesen best-selling novels will be aired every night at 9pm, From July 12-17, followed by exclusive documentaries and interviews with the author. Six new films have been produced; the first, The Writing on the Wall, will be released theatrically in Norway on August 27.

Norwegian War Docs At Grimstad Fest

June 17, 2010
More than 140 international short films and documentaries are screening this week at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad, (June 16-21). The Norwegian documentary competition section has 14 films in selection. The main focus this year is on conflict, crisis and war. Screenings include Facing Genocide by David Aronowitsch and Staffan Lindberg, Sarajevo Ricochet by Ola Flyum and Russian Lessons by Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, all supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Swedish films are well represented in the festival's international competition programme with by Fredrik Andersson, Jonas Odell and Ruben Östlund.

Angela Kovács Makes Six More Irene Huss Films

June 16, 2010
Swedish actress Angela Kovács (photo) will return as the Gothenburg-base inspector Irene Huss in a new series of six films produced for TV and DVD by Illusion Film and Yellow Bird in cooperation with Sweden's Kanal 5, Germany's ARD Degeto, Nordisk Film and Film I Väst. The first film in the new series is based on Helene Tursten's upcoming novel Den som vakar i mörkret to be published in August. The other films are based on the novels A man with a small face, The deceitful web and on original stories by the Swedish crime novelist. The first Irene Huss series sold around 500,000 DVD copies in Sweden. It is to be broadcast on Kanal 5 in the autumn.

Nordic Films Sweep The Floor At Festroia

June 15, 2010
Norwegian gangster comedy A Somewhat Gentle Man by Hans Petter Moland won Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor (Stellan Skarsgärd) plus Best Script (Kim Fupz Aakeson) at the recent Festroia Film Festival in Portugal. Finnish film Heartbeats by Saara Cantell won a Special Jury Prize and Danish film A Family by Pernille Fischer Christensen won Best Cinematography (Jakob Ihre).  Thomas Vinterberg's Submarino picked up the Audience Award and A Family the ‘Signis Prize' from a Catholic Jury. Finland's Letters to Father Jacob won the award ‘Man and his Environment' and Gimme Some Respect by Pekka Karjalainen a Special Mention. The Swedish film Sebbe by Babak Najafi received the First Works Award.

New Board At NRK

June 14, 2010
William Nygaard, (photo) former managing director of Achehoug, one of Norway's leading publishing houses, has been appointed Chairman of the Board at Norway's public broadcaster NRK. The announcement was made last Thursday by Norway's Culture Minister Anniken Huitfeldt. Aside from Nygaard, the new NRK Board consists of Alexandra Bech Gjørv, vice-chair, Steinar Gudmund Ness, Gunnar Flikke, Sif Vik, and Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn. The Board substitutes are Long Litt Woon and Harald Schjelderup.

NonStop Picks Second Magic Silver

June 9, 2010
Stockholm based NonStop Sales is going to handle world sales on Arne Lindtner Næss's (photo) Magic Silver 2, a sequel in 3D to the Norwegian family movie Magic Silver by Roar Uthaug & Katarina Launing that sold over 350,000 tickets in Norway last year. The sequel is again set high up in the Blue Mountain, where young queen Bluerose finds it more and more difficult to live within the boundaries of the Blue Gnome community. The film produced by Jørgen Storm Rosenberg and Lasse Greve Alsos will be ready for Christmas 2011.

Football Is God On DR

June 10, 2010
Ole Bendtzen's documentary film Football is God (previously known as The Believers) exploring the thin boundaries between faith and football, is going to be aired on DR2 Dokumania slot this Tuesday on the eve of the World Cup 2010 kick off. Produced by Final Cut, Bendtzen portrays the Argentinean football club Boca Juniors who have founded the ‘Maradona Church' - also known as the Hand of God Church - to worship their football idol Diego Maradona. Football is God was co-produced by Finland's Making Movies. Apart from Denmark's public broadcaster DR, the film air on SVT in Sweden, VPRO in Holland, SBS in Australia and IBA in Israel.