A solitary man roams a mountainous forest. He is clad in coarse furs and carries a rough bow for hunting, an essential survival task at which he is, alas, not very good. So he descends from the wilderness to forage in… a gas-station convenience store?
It’s a bone-dry opener to the male midlife crisis Danish filmmaker Thomas Daneskov is toying with in his second feature, Wild Men, but it’s pretty much the most intriguing bit of play this deeply black comedy manages. Oh, there’s definitely stuff worth spending time with here, but this odyssey of modern manhood is far more daring in what it is attempting than it how it succeeds, or not.
The man on the mountain is Martin (Rasmus Bjerg), who has “just grown tired of everything” — by which he means his loving wife and two small daughters, and the corporate job we may presume...
It’s a bone-dry opener to the male midlife crisis Danish filmmaker Thomas Daneskov is toying with in his second feature, Wild Men, but it’s pretty much the most intriguing bit of play this deeply black comedy manages. Oh, there’s definitely stuff worth spending time with here, but this odyssey of modern manhood is far more daring in what it is attempting than it how it succeeds, or not.
The man on the mountain is Martin (Rasmus Bjerg), who has “just grown tired of everything” — by which he means his loving wife and two small daughters, and the corporate job we may presume...
- 8/10/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Mubi Go, which has helped buoy NYC’s arthouse market by offering members a free movie ticket a week at participating theaters, expands to LA today where the biz could really use a boost. The films are curated and the first is Apple’s Cha Cha Real Smooth.
Mubi, a global streaming service, production company and film distributor, launched Mubi Go in New York last fall and will continue expanding to major markets through 2022 with Chicago next. “We’re being very careful and methodical about the rollout,” said distribution chief Chris Wells.
Mubi members get Mubi Go as a perk. The company doesn’t release subscriber numbers but Wells said its NYC base jumped by 30 after it added Mubi Go.
Movie picks include its own releases, like Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, but mostly from other distributors from Drive My Car, The Power of the Dog and Passing to We’re...
Mubi, a global streaming service, production company and film distributor, launched Mubi Go in New York last fall and will continue expanding to major markets through 2022 with Chicago next. “We’re being very careful and methodical about the rollout,” said distribution chief Chris Wells.
Mubi members get Mubi Go as a perk. The company doesn’t release subscriber numbers but Wells said its NYC base jumped by 30 after it added Mubi Go.
Movie picks include its own releases, like Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, but mostly from other distributors from Drive My Car, The Power of the Dog and Passing to We’re...
- 6/17/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
What happens when you want to go back to nature, only to find that nature is not at all welcoming? If you’re the midlife-crisis-beset Martin (Rasmus Bjerg), the hangdog protagonist of “Wild Men,” you might figure that after 10 days of trying to rough it in the wild as a landlocked Viking, it would be a good time to trek out of the Norwegian woods and seek snacks, beer, smokes and other necessities at a roadside service station minimart.
Trouble is, as we see during the opening minutes of Thomas Daneskov’s gently absurdist comedy, although Martin did remember to tuck his iPhone in his animal-skin garb before fleeing the constraints of civilization, he neglected to bring along any money. And the understandably discombobulated clerk behind the counter isn’t willing to barter when Martin offers pelts, and an axe, as payment for his items. One thing leads to another,...
Trouble is, as we see during the opening minutes of Thomas Daneskov’s gently absurdist comedy, although Martin did remember to tuck his iPhone in his animal-skin garb before fleeing the constraints of civilization, he neglected to bring along any money. And the understandably discombobulated clerk behind the counter isn’t willing to barter when Martin offers pelts, and an axe, as payment for his items. One thing leads to another,...
- 6/17/2022
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
Revolution Films makes distribution debut with ‘Eleven Days In May’.
Disney opens its first theatrical release in almost three months this weekend: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, which will look to replicate Marvel success at the UK-Ireland box office.
The fifth title in ‘Phase Four’ of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the 28th overall, Multiverse will start in 685 locations, having opened on Thursday.
That number is the widest release in the series, two ahead of Avengers: Endgame from 2019. That film took a £31.4m opening weekend, still the record in the UK and Ireland by a comfortable margin...
Disney opens its first theatrical release in almost three months this weekend: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, which will look to replicate Marvel success at the UK-Ireland box office.
The fifth title in ‘Phase Four’ of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the 28th overall, Multiverse will start in 685 locations, having opened on Thursday.
That number is the widest release in the series, two ahead of Avengers: Endgame from 2019. That film took a £31.4m opening weekend, still the record in the UK and Ireland by a comfortable margin...
- 5/6/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Dressed in animal furs and brandishing an axe, an office worker goes full Fred Flintstone in this madcap comedy featuring Sofie Gråbøl
You wouldn’t think it possible to commit armed robbery accidentally. But that’s exactly what happens to poor clueless Martin when he gets into an altercation with an attendant at a petrol station while dressed as a Viking in animal furs, with axe in hand. Martin has run away to the snow-capped mountains to hunt, forage and find the meaning of life. The snag is that his survival skills are more Alan Partridge than Bear Grylls – hence the foray to the petrol station for beer and crisps.
The Danish film-maker Thomas Daneskov’s deadpan midlife-crisis comedy has some brilliantly absurd moments such as this. Rasmus Bjerg plays Martin, who has tried half-marathons and road cycling, but still feels dead inside. Telling his long-suffering wife, Anne (The Killing...
You wouldn’t think it possible to commit armed robbery accidentally. But that’s exactly what happens to poor clueless Martin when he gets into an altercation with an attendant at a petrol station while dressed as a Viking in animal furs, with axe in hand. Martin has run away to the snow-capped mountains to hunt, forage and find the meaning of life. The snag is that his survival skills are more Alan Partridge than Bear Grylls – hence the foray to the petrol station for beer and crisps.
The Danish film-maker Thomas Daneskov’s deadpan midlife-crisis comedy has some brilliantly absurd moments such as this. Rasmus Bjerg plays Martin, who has tried half-marathons and road cycling, but still feels dead inside. Telling his long-suffering wife, Anne (The Killing...
- 5/2/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
The scene in Thomas Daneskov’s droll Danish comedy where it is most difficult to suspend disbelief involves a pet rabbit who escapes from her carrier at a service station and runs away. Rabbits are by nature conservative animals, fixed in their ways and very territorial, so this is unlikely behaviour. The two girls to whom she belonged are distraught. Their mother Anne attempts to reassure them that the rabbit will live a happy life in the wild. “No she won’t,” says one of the girls. “She’ll get eaten.”
The girls’ father, Martin (Rasmus Bjerg), has been living in the wild for over a week. he told them he was going to a conference but the longer he spends in his new life, the less he feels able to return to the old one. he was dissatisfied there. it’s something which he struggles to put his...
The girls’ father, Martin (Rasmus Bjerg), has been living in the wild for over a week. he told them he was going to a conference but the longer he spends in his new life, the less he feels able to return to the old one. he was dissatisfied there. it’s something which he struggles to put his...
- 3/17/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Norway’s famous landscapes will be gracing screens around the world in a fresh crop of blockbusters and domestic productions set to be released internationally.
Premiering in Venice out of competition, Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited “Dune” features scenes shot on the West Cape plateau, one of the most spectacular view points on the coast of Norway. The $165 million film will hit U.S. theaters Oct. 22 afters its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Also scheduled for a fall release, the long-delayed James Bond pic “No Time to Die” takes 007 on a car chase reportedly filmed on Norway’s spectacular wind-swept Atlantic Ocean Road. MGM has confirmed it will have its world premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall Sept. 28.
It’s international productions like these and Netflix hit series “Ragnarok,” filmed in the small town of Odda in the fjords of southwest Norway, that have fueled a boom in film tourism to Norway,...
Premiering in Venice out of competition, Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited “Dune” features scenes shot on the West Cape plateau, one of the most spectacular view points on the coast of Norway. The $165 million film will hit U.S. theaters Oct. 22 afters its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Also scheduled for a fall release, the long-delayed James Bond pic “No Time to Die” takes 007 on a car chase reportedly filmed on Norway’s spectacular wind-swept Atlantic Ocean Road. MGM has confirmed it will have its world premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall Sept. 28.
It’s international productions like these and Netflix hit series “Ragnarok,” filmed in the small town of Odda in the fjords of southwest Norway, that have fueled a boom in film tourism to Norway,...
- 9/4/2021
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
After a muted 2020 due to Covid-19, the Norwegian International Film Festival in the picturesque coastal town of Haugesund will be back in full force over Aug. 21-27, with attendance expected to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels, both for the on-site festival and parallel hybrid confab New Nordic Films, according to festival director Tonje Hardersen.
“The pandemic is still impacting Haugesund, forcing us to apply social distancing measures, notably in cinemas – with a maximum of 400 spectators per screen – but last year’s event gave us confidence,” she said. “The audience and industry reception last year was very positive, everyone is eager to meet in person, and I sense that the end of full Covid restrictions is getting closer. “
Haugesund’s fest honcho went on: “What sticks out is that 2021 has been very tough for the overall Norwegian film industry due to the pandemic, but it’s been a glorious year for Norwegian film production,...
“The pandemic is still impacting Haugesund, forcing us to apply social distancing measures, notably in cinemas – with a maximum of 400 spectators per screen – but last year’s event gave us confidence,” she said. “The audience and industry reception last year was very positive, everyone is eager to meet in person, and I sense that the end of full Covid restrictions is getting closer. “
Haugesund’s fest honcho went on: “What sticks out is that 2021 has been very tough for the overall Norwegian film industry due to the pandemic, but it’s been a glorious year for Norwegian film production,...
- 8/9/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Quebec’s Fantasia Festival has unveiled the third and final wave of titles set to screen at this year’s 25th edition and announced that Takashi Miike’s latest feature “The Great Yokai War – Guardians,” will close the festival. The world premiere of Julien Knafo’s Quebec zombie flic “Brain Freeze” will open the festival following an Aug. 4 pre-fest screening of James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad.”
“The Great Yokai War- Guardians” is the follow-up to Fantasia 2006 opener “The Great Yoki War,” and unspools in a fantasy world of Japanese demons, kaiju and pop culture references which proved a hit in Montreal the first time around.
Other key titles featured in the third wave lineup include Lee Won-tae’s “The Devil’s Deal,” his first film since “The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil” won Sitges’ best film award in 2019. BAFTA-winner Paul Andrew Williams’ (“Murdered for Being Different”) “Bull,” a revenge thriller,...
“The Great Yokai War- Guardians” is the follow-up to Fantasia 2006 opener “The Great Yoki War,” and unspools in a fantasy world of Japanese demons, kaiju and pop culture references which proved a hit in Montreal the first time around.
Other key titles featured in the third wave lineup include Lee Won-tae’s “The Devil’s Deal,” his first film since “The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil” won Sitges’ best film award in 2019. BAFTA-winner Paul Andrew Williams’ (“Murdered for Being Different”) “Bull,” a revenge thriller,...
- 7/21/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based sales company Charades launched the film at the online EFM in March.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Thomas Daneskov’s comedy thriller Wildmen following its buzzy premiere in Tribeca’s international film competition in June.
Paris-based sales company Charades launched the film at the online EFM in March but truly started tying up deals on the title during the Marché du Film’s Pre-Cannes screenings following its successful Tribeca outing.
It has also sealed deals to the UK (Blue Finch), France (Star Invest), Germany and Switzerland (Koch Media), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Czech Republic and Slovakia...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Thomas Daneskov’s comedy thriller Wildmen following its buzzy premiere in Tribeca’s international film competition in June.
Paris-based sales company Charades launched the film at the online EFM in March but truly started tying up deals on the title during the Marché du Film’s Pre-Cannes screenings following its successful Tribeca outing.
It has also sealed deals to the UK (Blue Finch), France (Star Invest), Germany and Switzerland (Koch Media), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Czech Republic and Slovakia...
- 7/6/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Ben Wheatley’s ‘In The Earth’ is playing in the main competition of the Swiss festival.
UK director Ben Wheatley’s in The Earth is among the competition contenders in this year’s 20th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival which will take place as a hybrid edition from July 2-10 in Switzerland.
It is taking place under the interim directorship of Loïc Valceschini before a new head, Pierre-Yves Walder, takes up the reins in July.
The event includes 55 films, eight short films, eight immersive installations and two TV productions. Among the special guests will be legendary VFX artist Volker Engel,...
UK director Ben Wheatley’s in The Earth is among the competition contenders in this year’s 20th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival which will take place as a hybrid edition from July 2-10 in Switzerland.
It is taking place under the interim directorship of Loïc Valceschini before a new head, Pierre-Yves Walder, takes up the reins in July.
The event includes 55 films, eight short films, eight immersive installations and two TV productions. Among the special guests will be legendary VFX artist Volker Engel,...
- 6/17/2021
- ScreenDaily
A subject many artists are irrevocably drawn towards, we’ve seen numerous films capture different forms of masculinity over the decades. Recently, Wildlife found men who feel lost in an increasingly industrialized or suburban world, desperate to return to a time where masculinity was life or death, where they didn’t have to be emasculated by modern society or contemporary womanhood. Force Majeure captured the changes in masculinity’s role in an amusing and mocking way, almost laughing at its male characters for expressing emotions and not living up to the masculine stereotypes of protection and strength. In Old Joy, men escape to the wilderness to attempt to get a deeper understanding of themselves and those that accompany them, only to realize that there’s something intangible in their lives and that their hollow relationships aren’t enough to make up for what they’re lacking.
Joining the pantheon of cinema’s exploration of manhood,...
Joining the pantheon of cinema’s exploration of manhood,...
- 6/14/2021
- by Logan Kenny
- The Film Stage
Tribeca Film Festival’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer (in Paris) with Anne-Katrin Titze (in New York) agrees with Frances McDormand’s Oscar speech: “We have to teach a young generation to see a film on a big screen.”
Tribeca Film Festival’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer is always a good person to talk cinema. We covered in our conversation the Opening Night selection, Jon M Chu’s adaption of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights; Mariem Pérez Riera’s Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It; Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show; Andrew Gaynord’s All My Friends Hate Me with Tom Stourton; Thomas Robsahm and Aslaug Holm’s A-ha the Movie; Thomas Daneskov’s Wild Men; Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate; Adam Leon’s Italian Studies, starring Vanessa Kirby; Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain; Warwick Ross...
Tribeca Film Festival’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer is always a good person to talk cinema. We covered in our conversation the Opening Night selection, Jon M Chu’s adaption of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights; Mariem Pérez Riera’s Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It; Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show; Andrew Gaynord’s All My Friends Hate Me with Tom Stourton; Thomas Robsahm and Aslaug Holm’s A-ha the Movie; Thomas Daneskov’s Wild Men; Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate; Adam Leon’s Italian Studies, starring Vanessa Kirby; Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain; Warwick Ross...
- 5/20/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Among European titles are films by Elisabeth Vogler, Levan Koguashvili, Thomas Daneskov, Shariff Korver and Max Eriksson. Yesterday, the Tribeca Film Festival revealed its 2021 line-up. This year’s selection includes 66 films spanning three competitive strands. 56 of these titles are world premieres. The festival will run from 9-20 June in a hybrid form, comprising in-person events at outdoor venues across all five boroughs of New York. The gathering will be opened by the world premiere of Jon M Chu’s In the Heights, based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s stage musical of the same name. The International Feature Competition includes a few European films. Roaring 20’s by French filmmaker Elisabeth Vogler (Netflix title Paris Is Us) gives viewers the chance not only to travel to Paris, but to live a day in the life there during the Covid-19 pandemic, in a single unbroken shot. Brighton 4th (Bulgaria/Georgia/Monaco/Russia/United States), the new film by.
Selection presents 56 world premieres, focuses on comedic, music-centered, socially-conscious films.
Tribeca Festival 2021 has announced 66 films in the line-up of the upcoming outdoor 20th anniversary edition that runs June 9-20, including documentaries on the late food and travel broadcaster Anthony Bourdain and Norwegian pop icons A-ha.
The selection will present 56 world premieres and focuses on comedic, music-centered, and socially-conscious films. Many of the films will also be available for US audiences to view online the day after they premiere in person through the Tribeca at Home virtual hub.
Curated Juneteenth programming throughout the festival will celebrate voices from the African Diaspora,...
Tribeca Festival 2021 has announced 66 films in the line-up of the upcoming outdoor 20th anniversary edition that runs June 9-20, including documentaries on the late food and travel broadcaster Anthony Bourdain and Norwegian pop icons A-ha.
The selection will present 56 world premieres and focuses on comedic, music-centered, and socially-conscious films. Many of the films will also be available for US audiences to view online the day after they premiere in person through the Tribeca at Home virtual hub.
Curated Juneteenth programming throughout the festival will celebrate voices from the African Diaspora,...
- 4/20/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film charts five-decade career of pop duo Sparks Aka Ron and Russell Mael.
Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights from MRC Non-Fiction to Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers following its world premiere at 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
The film charts the five-decade career of pop duo Sparks Aka Ron and Russell Mael, and features commentary from celebrity fans Flea, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, and Neil Gaiman, among others.
Wright produced the documentary with his producing partner Nira Park though their Complete Fiction Pictures, alongside George Hencken and Complete Fiction’s Laura Richardson. MRC Non-Fiction financed the feature.
Focus...
Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights from MRC Non-Fiction to Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers following its world premiere at 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
The film charts the five-decade career of pop duo Sparks Aka Ron and Russell Mael, and features commentary from celebrity fans Flea, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, and Neil Gaiman, among others.
Wright produced the documentary with his producing partner Nira Park though their Complete Fiction Pictures, alongside George Hencken and Complete Fiction’s Laura Richardson. MRC Non-Fiction financed the feature.
Focus...
- 2/23/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Other new titles on its slate include Swedish documentary The Scars Of Ali Boulala and French drama Her Way.
French sales company Charades will launch sales on Danish director Thomas Daneskov’s black comedy-thriller Wild Men ahead at the online edition of the EFM, running March 1-5.
Rasmus Bjerg co-stars as a man suffering from a mid-life crisis who heads into the Norwegian mountains, with the intention of hunting and gathering to survive, where he meets an on-the-run drug dealer, played by Zaki Youssef. The pair embark on a hectic trip across the fjords with police, thugs and the man’s family in hot pursuit.
French sales company Charades will launch sales on Danish director Thomas Daneskov’s black comedy-thriller Wild Men ahead at the online edition of the EFM, running March 1-5.
Rasmus Bjerg co-stars as a man suffering from a mid-life crisis who heads into the Norwegian mountains, with the intention of hunting and gathering to survive, where he meets an on-the-run drug dealer, played by Zaki Youssef. The pair embark on a hectic trip across the fjords with police, thugs and the man’s family in hot pursuit.
- 2/22/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
More than 300 global Zoom meetings organised for works in progress, co-production market.
The $58,000 Eurimages Lab Project Award at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films has been presented to A Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic from Finnish director Teemu Nikki and producer Jani Pösö from Helsiniki-based It’s Alive Films.
The film is about Jaakko, a wheelchair-bound blind man who wants to make a challenging journey to see his girlfriend.
The jury praised Blind Man’s “bold artistic approach, that the director and producer propose, takes us deep into the universe of a blind man who has to confront...
The $58,000 Eurimages Lab Project Award at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films has been presented to A Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic from Finnish director Teemu Nikki and producer Jani Pösö from Helsiniki-based It’s Alive Films.
The film is about Jaakko, a wheelchair-bound blind man who wants to make a challenging journey to see his girlfriend.
The jury praised Blind Man’s “bold artistic approach, that the director and producer propose, takes us deep into the universe of a blind man who has to confront...
- 8/21/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦39¦
- ScreenDaily
Haugesund’s New Nordic Films will run as a hybrid event Aug 18-21.
Isabella Eklof, the Danish director of Sundance 2018 selection Holiday and co-writer of Cannes 2018 award-winner Border, is presenting her new feature project Kalak as part of Haugesund’s New Nordic Films Co-Production Market (August 18-21).
This year’s hybrid event will see with some participants physically attend the event in Norway and others watching online films and presentations.
Scroll down for the full list
Kalak is Eklof’s second feature and is set in Greenland. It is about a man who tries to escape the demons of childhood...
Isabella Eklof, the Danish director of Sundance 2018 selection Holiday and co-writer of Cannes 2018 award-winner Border, is presenting her new feature project Kalak as part of Haugesund’s New Nordic Films Co-Production Market (August 18-21).
This year’s hybrid event will see with some participants physically attend the event in Norway and others watching online films and presentations.
Scroll down for the full list
Kalak is Eklof’s second feature and is set in Greenland. It is about a man who tries to escape the demons of childhood...
- 8/11/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦39¦
- ScreenDaily
TrustNordisk is handling international sales.
TrustNordisk will handle sales on Thomas Daneskov’s comedy Men of the Wild, produced by Lina Flint at Nordisk Film Spring, the outfit behind The Guilty.
Daneskov co-wrote the film with award-winning author Morten Pape.
The film started shooted in the mountains of Norway on October22 and will wrap on November 26.
Rasmus Bjerg and Zaki Youssef star in the comedy about a Danish man who runs away from his modern life to find himself in nature. But he finds himself on the run with an unlikely companion.
The cast also includes Sofie Grabol, Jonas Bergen Rahmanzadeh and Bjørn Sundquist.
TrustNordisk will handle sales on Thomas Daneskov’s comedy Men of the Wild, produced by Lina Flint at Nordisk Film Spring, the outfit behind The Guilty.
Daneskov co-wrote the film with award-winning author Morten Pape.
The film started shooted in the mountains of Norway on October22 and will wrap on November 26.
Rasmus Bjerg and Zaki Youssef star in the comedy about a Danish man who runs away from his modern life to find himself in nature. But he finds himself on the run with an unlikely companion.
The cast also includes Sofie Grabol, Jonas Bergen Rahmanzadeh and Bjørn Sundquist.
- 11/11/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Feature is being produced through new initiative Nordisk Film Spring.
TrustNordisk has boarded sales on Gustav Moller’s debut feature The Guilty, which is currently in post-production.
The Danish thriller has already caught the attention of buyers and festival programmers since it was pitched at Goteborg’s Work In Progress in January.
TrustNordisk will show a teaser to buyers as part of its Cannes promo reel.
Lina Flint produces the film through Nordisk Film Spring, a new initiative to support upcoming talents. The Danish Film Institute’s New Danish Screen also backs the project.
Spring was started by Flint (whose credits include The Elite) and screenwriter Emil Nygaard Albertsen in collaboration with Nordisk. Described as an “experimental creative collective,” it supports new talents and new ways of working.
Read more about Spring in Screen’s feature here.
The Guilty is a thriller about a former police officer who answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. With just...
TrustNordisk has boarded sales on Gustav Moller’s debut feature The Guilty, which is currently in post-production.
The Danish thriller has already caught the attention of buyers and festival programmers since it was pitched at Goteborg’s Work In Progress in January.
TrustNordisk will show a teaser to buyers as part of its Cannes promo reel.
Lina Flint produces the film through Nordisk Film Spring, a new initiative to support upcoming talents. The Danish Film Institute’s New Danish Screen also backs the project.
Spring was started by Flint (whose credits include The Elite) and screenwriter Emil Nygaard Albertsen in collaboration with Nordisk. Described as an “experimental creative collective,” it supports new talents and new ways of working.
Read more about Spring in Screen’s feature here.
The Guilty is a thriller about a former police officer who answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. With just...
- 5/10/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Buzzy pitches from rising Nordic talents include Iranian serial killer story and documentary about con man Waleed Ahmed [pictured], once described as the Mark Zuckerberg of Norway.
A diverse crop of projects were pitched in Goteborg today [Feb 5] as part of the Nordic Film Lab, including an Iranian serial killer story and documentary about con man Waleed Ahmed [pictured], once described as the Mark Zuckerberg of Norway.
The projects, which are pitched at development stage and need financiers or co-producers, are listed below.
The pitches are the culmination of a year-long programme and included Finnish participants for the first time this year, alongside those from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Projects:
The Holy Spider (Den), dir Ali Abbasi, prod Jonas Wagner
Iran-born, Denmark-based Abbasi will direct this feature inspired by the true story of Saeed Hanaei, who he calls “the most infamous serial killer in Iran’s recent history.” Abbasi added, “We’ll see the world through his eyes and try...
A diverse crop of projects were pitched in Goteborg today [Feb 5] as part of the Nordic Film Lab, including an Iranian serial killer story and documentary about con man Waleed Ahmed [pictured], once described as the Mark Zuckerberg of Norway.
The projects, which are pitched at development stage and need financiers or co-producers, are listed below.
The pitches are the culmination of a year-long programme and included Finnish participants for the first time this year, alongside those from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Projects:
The Holy Spider (Den), dir Ali Abbasi, prod Jonas Wagner
Iran-born, Denmark-based Abbasi will direct this feature inspired by the true story of Saeed Hanaei, who he calls “the most infamous serial killer in Iran’s recent history.” Abbasi added, “We’ll see the world through his eyes and try...
- 2/5/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Nordic Film Market includes debut films by Force Majeure actress, the screenwriter of A Royal Affair and director of viral hit Las Palmas; CAA, UTA and ICM agents among attending industry.Scroll down for full list
More than 40 Nordic films and works in progress will be presented at the fruitful Nordic Film Market in Goteborg, which runs Feb 4-7 during to the Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 29 - Feb 8).
Often a productive staging post for impressive upcoming regional features and emerging talent, the 2016 lineup includes 17 finished features and 20 works in progress, plus eight titles presented as part of the Nordic Film Lab Discovery programme.
The works-in-progress presentations (see full list below) include ten debut films from the likes of A Royal Affair screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg, viral hit Las Palmas director Johannes Nyholm, Force Majeure actress Fanni Metelius and Cannes Cinefondation alumni Juho Kuosmanen and Shahrbanoo Sadat.
Other works in progress will be presented from directors Mads Brugger ([link...
More than 40 Nordic films and works in progress will be presented at the fruitful Nordic Film Market in Goteborg, which runs Feb 4-7 during to the Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 29 - Feb 8).
Often a productive staging post for impressive upcoming regional features and emerging talent, the 2016 lineup includes 17 finished features and 20 works in progress, plus eight titles presented as part of the Nordic Film Lab Discovery programme.
The works-in-progress presentations (see full list below) include ten debut films from the likes of A Royal Affair screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg, viral hit Las Palmas director Johannes Nyholm, Force Majeure actress Fanni Metelius and Cannes Cinefondation alumni Juho Kuosmanen and Shahrbanoo Sadat.
Other works in progress will be presented from directors Mads Brugger ([link...
- 1/27/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Thomas Daneskov’s low-budget Diy drama The Elite (Eliten) has won the New Talent Grand Pix at Copenhagen’s Cph Pix.
The international jury comprised Alex Ross Perry, Katrine Wiedemann and Gabe Klinger. They said they were “pleased to discover a deeply personal, relevant and contemporary new voice in Danish independent cinema with ‘The Elite’ by Thomas Daneskov, a disturbing and hilarious portrait of privileged youth made in a spirit of collectivity.”
Daneskov, 26, wins €10,000 ($10,800) towards his next film.
Interview: Thomas Daneskov, The Elite
The jury also gave a special mention to Limbo by Anna Sofie Hartmann, “which deployed stunning images through a rigorous and challenging form and which kept us thinking for days.”
The Politiken Audience Award went to Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain, the second Icelandic film in a row to claim the honour (after Of Horses And Men). The film is a tender portrait of a 43-year-old man who lives with is mother but wants...
The international jury comprised Alex Ross Perry, Katrine Wiedemann and Gabe Klinger. They said they were “pleased to discover a deeply personal, relevant and contemporary new voice in Danish independent cinema with ‘The Elite’ by Thomas Daneskov, a disturbing and hilarious portrait of privileged youth made in a spirit of collectivity.”
Daneskov, 26, wins €10,000 ($10,800) towards his next film.
Interview: Thomas Daneskov, The Elite
The jury also gave a special mention to Limbo by Anna Sofie Hartmann, “which deployed stunning images through a rigorous and challenging form and which kept us thinking for days.”
The Politiken Audience Award went to Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain, the second Icelandic film in a row to claim the honour (after Of Horses And Men). The film is a tender portrait of a 43-year-old man who lives with is mother but wants...
- 4/17/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
A number of emerging Danish filmmakers are embracing a new Diy attitude, as evidenced by some exciting debuts at Copenhagen’s Cph Pix festival this week. It might not be an identifiable new wave, but it marks a new ethos.
One leading example of this Diy spirit is Thomas Daneskov’s feature debut The Elite (Eliten), produced by Lina Flint. Daneskov is just 26 years old, Flint 27.
Daneskov cut his teeth on music videos and the well-travelled, award-winning short film Puff, Puff, Pass. After being rejected, twice, from the National Film School of Denmark, he decided to just make a feature outside ‘the system’ (without applying for public funding from the Danish Film Institute).
“We just wanted to get it done, we wanted that total creative freedom,” he says. “It’s a story about youth and we wanted to do it while we are still young. It could have taken years to get ‘big money’ to do it.”
Flint...
One leading example of this Diy spirit is Thomas Daneskov’s feature debut The Elite (Eliten), produced by Lina Flint. Daneskov is just 26 years old, Flint 27.
Daneskov cut his teeth on music videos and the well-travelled, award-winning short film Puff, Puff, Pass. After being rejected, twice, from the National Film School of Denmark, he decided to just make a feature outside ‘the system’ (without applying for public funding from the Danish Film Institute).
“We just wanted to get it done, we wanted that total creative freedom,” he says. “It’s a story about youth and we wanted to do it while we are still young. It could have taken years to get ‘big money’ to do it.”
Flint...
- 4/14/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Copenhagen’s Cph Pix (April 9-22) will be bookended by films from two Danish directors shooting in the UK – Jeppe Ronde’s Welsh teen suicide drama Bridgend [pictured] and Thomas Vinterberg’s Thomas Hardy adaptation, Far From The Madding Crowd.
The audience-focused Cph Pix will show 130 feature films during 420 screenings and events.
Festival director Jacob Neiiendam said: “Artistically it’s a strong year for Danish cinema.”
Indeed, three Danish debut features will screen at Pix. “The first features from Thomas Daneskov [The Elite], Anna Sofie Hartmann [Limbo] and Jeppe Rønde showcase a diversity and nerve we have been missing in our fiction films, and they are just the tip of the iceberg,” added Neiiendam.
“We always wanted the festival to be a platform for local films which wouldn’t play well with regular releases, and this year we’ve been flooded with films produced outside the standard support system - and they are good films.”
Opening night will also...
The audience-focused Cph Pix will show 130 feature films during 420 screenings and events.
Festival director Jacob Neiiendam said: “Artistically it’s a strong year for Danish cinema.”
Indeed, three Danish debut features will screen at Pix. “The first features from Thomas Daneskov [The Elite], Anna Sofie Hartmann [Limbo] and Jeppe Rønde showcase a diversity and nerve we have been missing in our fiction films, and they are just the tip of the iceberg,” added Neiiendam.
“We always wanted the festival to be a platform for local films which wouldn’t play well with regular releases, and this year we’ve been flooded with films produced outside the standard support system - and they are good films.”
Opening night will also...
- 3/12/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Prizes to Bulgaria, China and Canada as Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival draws to a close.Scroll down for full list of winners
This year’s Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival has wrapped with an outlook that juxtaposes the gloomy with the optimistic.
During the closing night ceremony of the world’s biggest shorts festival, Jean-Claude Saurel - the president of organiser Sauve qui peut le Court Métrage - took the opportunity to lament the continuing cuts in budgets for French culture and cultural organisations and urged people to help protest against the current policies of the French administration.
However, with audiences for the festival at approximately 160,000 (up more than 5,000 from the previous year), there was still a sense of cautious celebration for the state of short film in France and beyond.
The festival’s International Grand Prix went to Bulgarian/German co-production Pride, Pavel Vesnakov’s powerfully acted story about a retired grandfather who finds...
This year’s Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival has wrapped with an outlook that juxtaposes the gloomy with the optimistic.
During the closing night ceremony of the world’s biggest shorts festival, Jean-Claude Saurel - the president of organiser Sauve qui peut le Court Métrage - took the opportunity to lament the continuing cuts in budgets for French culture and cultural organisations and urged people to help protest against the current policies of the French administration.
However, with audiences for the festival at approximately 160,000 (up more than 5,000 from the previous year), there was still a sense of cautious celebration for the state of short film in France and beyond.
The festival’s International Grand Prix went to Bulgarian/German co-production Pride, Pavel Vesnakov’s powerfully acted story about a retired grandfather who finds...
- 2/12/2014
- ScreenDaily
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