Former UK and Ireland production executive talks growing international ties and incoming projects at Swedish funding body.
Veteran UK and Ireland production executive Simon Perry has been settled in Goteborg for eight months as head of production at Film Vast (formerly Film i Vast), the regional film fund of Western Sweden.
Perry, who worked at British Screen and the Irish Film Board before heading Ace in Paris, replaced Swedish producer Jessica Ask, who joined production outfit Anagram Film & TV.
Film Vast has an annual budget of $11.5m (Sek 93m) and is the largest public funder in the country after the Swedish Film Institute (Sfi).
“My being here helps the balance between Swedish projects and international projects,” Perry told Screen.
“I have more reach into the international market than my predecessor. The international side of the work has been going well.”
Several notable projects from the UK are headed to work in the region.
“A very interesting...
Veteran UK and Ireland production executive Simon Perry has been settled in Goteborg for eight months as head of production at Film Vast (formerly Film i Vast), the regional film fund of Western Sweden.
Perry, who worked at British Screen and the Irish Film Board before heading Ace in Paris, replaced Swedish producer Jessica Ask, who joined production outfit Anagram Film & TV.
Film Vast has an annual budget of $11.5m (Sek 93m) and is the largest public funder in the country after the Swedish Film Institute (Sfi).
“My being here helps the balance between Swedish projects and international projects,” Perry told Screen.
“I have more reach into the international market than my predecessor. The international side of the work has been going well.”
Several notable projects from the UK are headed to work in the region.
“A very interesting...
- 8/19/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
UK veteran producer Simon Perry has been appointed head of production at Swedish regional film centre Film i Väst in Trollhättan, aka Sweden’s Trollywood.
Perry - former head of British Screen Finance and, more recently, the Irish Film Board from 2006-11 – has signed a two-year contract with the centre and started in his new job this week.
He replaces Swedish producer Jessica Ask, who left to join independent production company Anagram Film & TV.
“We are happy to welcoming Perry to Film i Väst, and look forward to a collaboration with one of the world’s most experienced co-producers on the international scene,” said CEO Tomas Eskildsson.
Film i Vast operates on an annual budget of $11.5m (Sek 93m).
Perry, a film journalist, independent filmmaker and producer with his own Umbrella Films, was head of state-financed development and production company British Screen Finance (later known as the UK Film Coucil) from 1991.
Since 2000 he has concentrated on teaching...
Perry - former head of British Screen Finance and, more recently, the Irish Film Board from 2006-11 – has signed a two-year contract with the centre and started in his new job this week.
He replaces Swedish producer Jessica Ask, who left to join independent production company Anagram Film & TV.
“We are happy to welcoming Perry to Film i Väst, and look forward to a collaboration with one of the world’s most experienced co-producers on the international scene,” said CEO Tomas Eskildsson.
Film i Vast operates on an annual budget of $11.5m (Sek 93m).
Perry, a film journalist, independent filmmaker and producer with his own Umbrella Films, was head of state-financed development and production company British Screen Finance (later known as the UK Film Coucil) from 1991.
Since 2000 he has concentrated on teaching...
- 1/13/2015
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
TrustNordisk has sold the North American rights for Anders Morgenthaler’s drama I Am Here to La-based distributor Brainstorm Media.
The deal was negotiated between Susan Wendt, head of sales at TrustNordisk and Meyer Shwarzstein, president at Brainstorm Media.
Morgenthaler’s drama premiered at Austin’s Fantastic Fest in September and stars Kim Basinger as a successful business executive who sets out on a desperate and perilous quest to realize her dream of motherhood.
The film also stars Peter Stormare, Jordan Prentice and Sebastian Schipper.
Producers are Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32. Co-producers are Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films, with executive producers Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa, Peter Nadermann for Network Movie/Zdf „Das kleine Fernsehspiel“ in collaboration with Arte, and Jessica Ask for Film i Väst, with support from Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Dfff and in...
The deal was negotiated between Susan Wendt, head of sales at TrustNordisk and Meyer Shwarzstein, president at Brainstorm Media.
Morgenthaler’s drama premiered at Austin’s Fantastic Fest in September and stars Kim Basinger as a successful business executive who sets out on a desperate and perilous quest to realize her dream of motherhood.
The film also stars Peter Stormare, Jordan Prentice and Sebastian Schipper.
Producers are Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32. Co-producers are Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films, with executive producers Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa, Peter Nadermann for Network Movie/Zdf „Das kleine Fernsehspiel“ in collaboration with Arte, and Jessica Ask for Film i Väst, with support from Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Dfff and in...
- 11/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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