Projects backed by Nordic funding bodies range from the next disaster film by the writers of The Wave to a documentary reconstructing the Utoya massacre.
The Norwegian Film Institute’s latest funding round includes $1.82m (Nok 15m) to Kon-Tiki co-director Espen Sandberg’s new film Roald Amundsen, a biopic of the titular Arctic explorer.
The $9m (Nok 75m) production is produced by Espen Horn and Kristian Sinkerud for Motion Blur Films.
The Nfi also awarded $1.7m (Nok 13.9m) to John Andreas Andersen’s The Quake (Skjelvet), written by The Wave writers Harald Rosenløw Eeg and John Kåre Raake.
The film is inspired by a 1904 earthquake in Oslo. Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm of Fantefilm Fiction (also behind The Wave) produce the $6.3m (Nok 52.1m) production.
Andersen makes his solo directorial debut after working as a cinematographer on films such as The Snowman and Headhunters.
Sweden
In Sweden, the Swedish Film Institute has backed 23 projects in its latest...
The Norwegian Film Institute’s latest funding round includes $1.82m (Nok 15m) to Kon-Tiki co-director Espen Sandberg’s new film Roald Amundsen, a biopic of the titular Arctic explorer.
The $9m (Nok 75m) production is produced by Espen Horn and Kristian Sinkerud for Motion Blur Films.
The Nfi also awarded $1.7m (Nok 13.9m) to John Andreas Andersen’s The Quake (Skjelvet), written by The Wave writers Harald Rosenløw Eeg and John Kåre Raake.
The film is inspired by a 1904 earthquake in Oslo. Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm of Fantefilm Fiction (also behind The Wave) produce the $6.3m (Nok 52.1m) production.
Andersen makes his solo directorial debut after working as a cinematographer on films such as The Snowman and Headhunters.
Sweden
In Sweden, the Swedish Film Institute has backed 23 projects in its latest...
- 9/16/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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