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16.08.2007
16 films feature at Nordic Co-Production Forum
16 new Scandinavian and German feature film projects, with budgets between $1.2 and $9m (Euros 0.9m-7m), will be presented at the second Nordic Co-Production Forum, which takes place between Aug 22-23 as part of the New Nordic Films market during the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund..
Source: Screen Daily.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen) Publisert: 16.08.07 | Sist endret: 16.08.07
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Total production volume exceeds $68m (Euros 50m.)
Last year focusing on the UK, the second edition of the forum deals with German-Scandinavian co-productions, and has been organised in collaboration with the Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund.
According to Gyda Velvin Myklebust, market coordinator, the number of participants are up by 50%, to reach 150.
Besides the pitching sessions, individual meetings to negotiate the projects, the programme includes case studies of Swedish director Jan Troell’s Maria Larsson’s Everlasting Moment, and Norwegian director Bent Hamer’s O’Horten, as well as panels including discussion of film financing in Europe.
The list of speakers comprises producer Karl Baumgartner, of Germany’s Pandora Filmproduktion; sales agent Michael Weber, of Germany’s The Match Factory; head of the Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund, Eva Hubert; producer John M Jacobsen, of Norway’s Filmkameratene; and producer Tero Kaukomaa, of Finland’s Blind Spot.
The cheapest project selected for the forum is Finnish director Antti-Jussi Anila’s Sauna, a $1.2m (Euros 0.9m) horror film set on the backdrop of Finnish sauna culture.
Two brothers leave a young girl to die, and are subsequently pursued by her, her face pouring with filth which is not easy to wash away. Bronson Club produces.
In the high-end is Edvard Munch-Story of His life, a $9m (Euros 7m) biopic of the Norwegian painter and his fight ”against diseases and death, contempt of his art, and his own demons.”
Set up by Germany’s Transcorda Film, it will be directed by Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjærg (An Enemy of the People).
German director Sven Taddicken introduces his $7.3m (Euros 5.5m) tragicomedy, 13 Paces Without a Head, from Wüste Filmproduktion.
It is the story of former pirates Störtebeker and Michels in the year 1401, as business is slowing down on the North Sea. Then they discover a miracle weapon.
The team behing award-winning kidpic Trigger, Norwegian director Gunnar Vikene and producers Tanya Badendyck and Silje Hopland Eik, of Cinenord Spillefilm, is back with Vegas, a $2.8m (Euros 2.1m) drama targeted at 15+ audiences about three teenagers ”who have lost everything and have everything to win.”
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