Cph: Dox Sets 2023 Main Competition
The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, affectionately known as Cph: Dox, has set the full lineup for its 2023 edition. This year, the festival will screen more than 200 new documentaries, with over 100 world premieres – the largest number at Cph: Dox. Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s long-awaited film A Storm Foretold about Donald Trump’s former adviser Roger Stone will debut at the fest alongside a new doc by One Child Nation director Lynn Zhang. This year Cph: Dox also celebrates 20 years. Guests set to visit include Wim Wenders, Joan Baez, Nathan Fielder, and Jeremy Deller. You can check out the full lineup here.
Norway’s Rubicon TV Hires ‘Headhunters’ Writer Lars Gudmestad
Norwegian scripted outfit Rubicon TV has hired writer and producer Lars Gudmestad as Executive Producer. He will begin the position in April 2023. Gudmestad has worked extensively across film and TV, with credits on productions like Morten Tyldum...
The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, affectionately known as Cph: Dox, has set the full lineup for its 2023 edition. This year, the festival will screen more than 200 new documentaries, with over 100 world premieres – the largest number at Cph: Dox. Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s long-awaited film A Storm Foretold about Donald Trump’s former adviser Roger Stone will debut at the fest alongside a new doc by One Child Nation director Lynn Zhang. This year Cph: Dox also celebrates 20 years. Guests set to visit include Wim Wenders, Joan Baez, Nathan Fielder, and Jeremy Deller. You can check out the full lineup here.
Norway’s Rubicon TV Hires ‘Headhunters’ Writer Lars Gudmestad
Norwegian scripted outfit Rubicon TV has hired writer and producer Lars Gudmestad as Executive Producer. He will begin the position in April 2023. Gudmestad has worked extensively across film and TV, with credits on productions like Morten Tyldum...
- 2/22/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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Rubicon TV, the Norwegian production house behind such cross-over drama successes as Lilyhammer, and Beforeigners, is getting into the spy business with its new series E14 Unit for Special Intel.
The show, which Rubicon is presenting to potential co-production partners at the international TV market MIPCOM in Cannes this week, looks at the untold story of how Norwegian officers from the country’s elite E14 unit played a key role as NATO’s frontline spies for NATO in the 1990 Yugoslav War. When the country’s brutal civil war erupted, a small group of E14 spies were sent to the Balkans to collect intelligence as part of the NATO intervention. The often ruthless and morally-questionable mission stood in start contrast to Norway’s public-facing image as a peace-loving nation.
Sebastian Torngren Wartin and Erik Ivar Sæther will co-write the series, which Gudny Hummelvoll (Occupied, Headhunters) will produce.
Rubicon TV, the Norwegian production house behind such cross-over drama successes as Lilyhammer, and Beforeigners, is getting into the spy business with its new series E14 Unit for Special Intel.
The show, which Rubicon is presenting to potential co-production partners at the international TV market MIPCOM in Cannes this week, looks at the untold story of how Norwegian officers from the country’s elite E14 unit played a key role as NATO’s frontline spies for NATO in the 1990 Yugoslav War. When the country’s brutal civil war erupted, a small group of E14 spies were sent to the Balkans to collect intelligence as part of the NATO intervention. The often ruthless and morally-questionable mission stood in start contrast to Norway’s public-facing image as a peace-loving nation.
Sebastian Torngren Wartin and Erik Ivar Sæther will co-write the series, which Gudny Hummelvoll (Occupied, Headhunters) will produce.
- 10/19/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At a time when global streamers have been pushing local originals overseas, Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision to cease all new local fare for HBO Max in the Nordics, Central Europe, Holland and Turkey has come as a rude shock to the international industry.
Variety revealed last week that HBO Max, which began its international rollout in June 2021, is halting all development of originals in the aforementioned territories and removing some locally produced shows from the platform in order to relicense the titles elsewhere. Markets where originals have been spared are Spain and France — the latter where HBO Max has yet to launch.
The pivot, which Warner Bros. Discovery attributes to a companywide 3 billion cost-savings measure, has astonished the industry, mainly because HBO Nordic has been an entrenched and respected brand in Europe for 10 years. What’s more, recent HBO Max international hits such as “Lust” and “Kamikaze” (pictured) originated from Denmark and Sweden,...
Variety revealed last week that HBO Max, which began its international rollout in June 2021, is halting all development of originals in the aforementioned territories and removing some locally produced shows from the platform in order to relicense the titles elsewhere. Markets where originals have been spared are Spain and France — the latter where HBO Max has yet to launch.
The pivot, which Warner Bros. Discovery attributes to a companywide 3 billion cost-savings measure, has astonished the industry, mainly because HBO Nordic has been an entrenched and respected brand in Europe for 10 years. What’s more, recent HBO Max international hits such as “Lust” and “Kamikaze” (pictured) originated from Denmark and Sweden,...
- 7/12/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Execs from Germany’s Zdf, Denmark’s TV2 also on board.
National film institutes from Denmark, Ireland, Estonia and the Nordics are teaming up to launch the European Writers Club (Ewc), an EU-backed initiative to increase collaboration on high-end series projects across the continent.
The project launches with a panel at 17.00 Cet today at Series Series, the event for European series and creators held in Fontainebleu, France.
The Ewc is created and headed by CEO Thomas Gammeltoft, partner and executive producer at Nordic and Italian production and distribution firm True Content Entertainment. Copenhagen-based Gammeltoft was previously CEO of the Copenhagen Film Fund...
National film institutes from Denmark, Ireland, Estonia and the Nordics are teaming up to launch the European Writers Club (Ewc), an EU-backed initiative to increase collaboration on high-end series projects across the continent.
The project launches with a panel at 17.00 Cet today at Series Series, the event for European series and creators held in Fontainebleu, France.
The Ewc is created and headed by CEO Thomas Gammeltoft, partner and executive producer at Nordic and Italian production and distribution firm True Content Entertainment. Copenhagen-based Gammeltoft was previously CEO of the Copenhagen Film Fund...
- 6/30/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Ivar Køhn, head of drama at Norwegian public broadcaster Nrk since 2013, will be joining Banijay Nordic’s scripted label Rubicon as its Chief Executive Officer.
Announced by Banijay Nordic on Monday, the appointment marks big news for Scandinavia’s TV sector as it prepares to gather tomorrow at Sweden’s Göteborg Festival for its annual TV Drama Vision confab.
Under Kohn’s leadership, Nrk emerged from the shadow of Denmarks’s Dr by producing a string of international hits such as, just recently, International Emmy winner “Atlantic Crossing,” Canneseries 2018 laureate “State of Happiness” and “22 July,” which won a Nordisk Film and TV Fond Prize in 2020.
Most recently for Nrk, Izer Aliu’s “Countrymen,” a Rubicon production, picked up a Canneseries award last October for its ensemble cast, plus a nomination for this week’s Nordisk Film and TV Fond Prize.
An institution in Norway, Køhn spent six years before joining...
Announced by Banijay Nordic on Monday, the appointment marks big news for Scandinavia’s TV sector as it prepares to gather tomorrow at Sweden’s Göteborg Festival for its annual TV Drama Vision confab.
Under Kohn’s leadership, Nrk emerged from the shadow of Denmarks’s Dr by producing a string of international hits such as, just recently, International Emmy winner “Atlantic Crossing,” Canneseries 2018 laureate “State of Happiness” and “22 July,” which won a Nordisk Film and TV Fond Prize in 2020.
Most recently for Nrk, Izer Aliu’s “Countrymen,” a Rubicon production, picked up a Canneseries award last October for its ensemble cast, plus a nomination for this week’s Nordisk Film and TV Fond Prize.
An institution in Norway, Køhn spent six years before joining...
- 1/31/2022
- by John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Göteborg Film Festival’s annual TV industry event, TV Drama Vision, has unveiled its program, which focuses on sustainability and healthy working conditions at a time of hyper-competition in the drama space.
TV Drama Vision is set to unspool both in-person and online over Feb. 2-3.
As opening keynote, Johanna Koljonen, author of the anticipated Nostradamus Report, will kickstart the event’s conference strand, which is also due to new paths for creative producers, public funding at a crossroads, green filmmaking, diversity, changing business models and storytelling.
“The program, designed as always in close collaboration with the industry, will reveal how the streaming disruption, accelerated by the pandemic, is affecting us all. It’s important for all partners to find common grounds and reflect on long-term plans to create a sustainable industry,” says Göteborg head of industry Cia Edström, who will be hosting the event with moderators Johanna Nunnu Karppinen,...
TV Drama Vision is set to unspool both in-person and online over Feb. 2-3.
As opening keynote, Johanna Koljonen, author of the anticipated Nostradamus Report, will kickstart the event’s conference strand, which is also due to new paths for creative producers, public funding at a crossroads, green filmmaking, diversity, changing business models and storytelling.
“The program, designed as always in close collaboration with the industry, will reveal how the streaming disruption, accelerated by the pandemic, is affecting us all. It’s important for all partners to find common grounds and reflect on long-term plans to create a sustainable industry,” says Göteborg head of industry Cia Edström, who will be hosting the event with moderators Johanna Nunnu Karppinen,...
- 1/25/2022
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
One of the top drama decision-makers in the Nordics, Ivar Køhn has been heading Norwegian pubcaster Nrk’s drama department since 2013. Under his helm, some of Norway’s most international lauded TV shows have been produced or co-produced, from “Nobel”, “Mammon 2”, “Home Ground”, “State of Happiness”, to “22 July” (Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for Best Nordic Screenplay).
Nrk’s lavish historical drama “Atlantic Crossing,” starring Sofie Helin and Kyle MacLachlan, is currently running for Best TV Movie/Miniseries at New York’s upcoming International Emmy Awards, while “Countrymen,” co-created by Anne Bjørnstad (“Beforeigners”) is world premiering this week in competition at Canneseries.
Køhn tells Variety about his vision for public service broadcasting in the age of streaming.
“Countrymen” is competing at Canneseries and “Atlantic Crossing” for an International Emmy. What does it mean for you and in what way do these premium dramas stand for Nrk’s DNA?
It’s...
Nrk’s lavish historical drama “Atlantic Crossing,” starring Sofie Helin and Kyle MacLachlan, is currently running for Best TV Movie/Miniseries at New York’s upcoming International Emmy Awards, while “Countrymen,” co-created by Anne Bjørnstad (“Beforeigners”) is world premiering this week in competition at Canneseries.
Køhn tells Variety about his vision for public service broadcasting in the age of streaming.
“Countrymen” is competing at Canneseries and “Atlantic Crossing” for an International Emmy. What does it mean for you and in what way do these premium dramas stand for Nrk’s DNA?
It’s...
- 10/10/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Dr’s “When the Dust Settles,” Nrk’s “22. Juli” and Svt’s “Caliphate” will compete for 2020’s 4th Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, as terrorism strikes to the heart of three of the five Nordic dramas nominated for the award for outstanding screenwriting announced at Sweden’s Göteborg.Film Festival on Jan. 29.
Two other titles – Yle/Mediapro’s “The Paradise” and Ruv’s ”Happily Never After” – chart halting spiritual recovery – after caring for years for a loved one and separation in marriage respectively.
Winners of the Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award will receive a €20,000 cash prize, announced during the Göteborg Film & TV Festival’s TV Drama Vision, a highlight of the festival, and part of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond’s 30th anniversary celebrations
First episodes of all the series will screen at the Göteborg Festival.
”With the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the Fund wants to celebrate the art of script writing,...
Two other titles – Yle/Mediapro’s “The Paradise” and Ruv’s ”Happily Never After” – chart halting spiritual recovery – after caring for years for a loved one and separation in marriage respectively.
Winners of the Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award will receive a €20,000 cash prize, announced during the Göteborg Film & TV Festival’s TV Drama Vision, a highlight of the festival, and part of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond’s 30th anniversary celebrations
First episodes of all the series will screen at the Göteborg Festival.
”With the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the Fund wants to celebrate the art of script writing,...
- 12/17/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
A new Norwegian drama will tell the story of the people who responded to the horrific 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway that left 77 dead, most of them teenagers. “22 July” is being produced by Norwegian pubcaster Nrk’s drama arm and will be distributed by Drg, which landed the international rights. The first footage of the six-part show was screened Thursday at the Goteburg Film Festival.
Right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik killed eight people by planting a car bomb in Oslo’s government quarter. He then went to the nearby island of Utoya, where youth members of the Norwegian Labour Party were at a summer camp, and killed 69 young people. Paul Greengrass’ recent Netflix film “22 July” told the story of the attacks. The new series, which bears the same name but has no connection to the movie or Netflix, will focus on how ordinary people responded to the atrocity.
“22 July was...
Right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik killed eight people by planting a car bomb in Oslo’s government quarter. He then went to the nearby island of Utoya, where youth members of the Norwegian Labour Party were at a summer camp, and killed 69 young people. Paul Greengrass’ recent Netflix film “22 July” told the story of the attacks. The new series, which bears the same name but has no connection to the movie or Netflix, will focus on how ordinary people responded to the atrocity.
“22 July was...
- 1/31/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Featuring a string of international key-players, the Drama Series Days Conference presents inspiring talks on the latest trends and developments in serial content. The detailed list of panels, speakers and their topics is below.Monday, Feb 19
10–10.45 am
Zoo 2
Opening Session
Kick-Off Drama Series Days 2018
with Matthijs Wouter Knol (Efm), Petra Müller (Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw)
Moderated by Ali May
11–11.45 am
Zoo 2
Panel
How to Make Series Travel
with Rola Bauer, Sarah Doole, Ivar Køhn, Moritz von Kruedener
European key players from the fields of production, development and sales give insights into the business of internationally co-produced serial drama and share their recipes for success. What are their strategies to place serial content with an international audience? What are important factors in story development, casting and international financing?
In cooperation with Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw
Moderated by Stewart Clarke, Variety
1–1.45 pm
Zoo 4
Presentation
Follow the Money: Financing Series in Europe
Based...
10–10.45 am
Zoo 2
Opening Session
Kick-Off Drama Series Days 2018
with Matthijs Wouter Knol (Efm), Petra Müller (Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw)
Moderated by Ali May
11–11.45 am
Zoo 2
Panel
How to Make Series Travel
with Rola Bauer, Sarah Doole, Ivar Køhn, Moritz von Kruedener
European key players from the fields of production, development and sales give insights into the business of internationally co-produced serial drama and share their recipes for success. What are their strategies to place serial content with an international audience? What are important factors in story development, casting and international financing?
In cooperation with Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw
Moderated by Stewart Clarke, Variety
1–1.45 pm
Zoo 4
Presentation
Follow the Money: Financing Series in Europe
Based...
- 2/9/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
He signs six-year contract as production and development chief; Svensk Denmark appoints Birdi Bjerregaard as MD for Sf Film Production.
Norwegian producer Sveinung Golimo, who worked on this including Max Manus: Men of War and Troll Hunter, was today named production and development chief at the Norwegian Film Institute.
Golimo, 38, who has signed a six-year contract, will join the top management team headed by new CEO Sindre Guldvog, who will shortly replace managing director Nina Refseth. Starting next spring, he will succeed Ivar Køhn, who has become head of drama at Norwegian pubcaster Nrk.
Since 2001, Golimo has worked for Oslo-based production outfit Filmkameratene, now 50%-50% owned by its founder, Norwegian veteran producer John M Jacobsen and Sf Norge; for six years he was head of the Norwegian Film and TV Producers’ Association. He is currently producing Norwegian directors Hallvard Bræin’s Burning (Børning), Grethe Bøe’s Operation Arctic (Operasjon Arktis), and Per Olav Sørensen’s TV series...
Norwegian producer Sveinung Golimo, who worked on this including Max Manus: Men of War and Troll Hunter, was today named production and development chief at the Norwegian Film Institute.
Golimo, 38, who has signed a six-year contract, will join the top management team headed by new CEO Sindre Guldvog, who will shortly replace managing director Nina Refseth. Starting next spring, he will succeed Ivar Køhn, who has become head of drama at Norwegian pubcaster Nrk.
Since 2001, Golimo has worked for Oslo-based production outfit Filmkameratene, now 50%-50% owned by its founder, Norwegian veteran producer John M Jacobsen and Sf Norge; for six years he was head of the Norwegian Film and TV Producers’ Association. He is currently producing Norwegian directors Hallvard Bræin’s Burning (Børning), Grethe Bøe’s Operation Arctic (Operasjon Arktis), and Per Olav Sørensen’s TV series...
- 10/2/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Publisher will replace Nina Refseth.
Sindre Guldvog has been appointed managing director of the Norwegian Film Institute (Nfi), replacing Nina Refseth who will step down at the end of 2013, when her six-year contract expires.
Guldvog, a former CEO at Cappelen and Bonnier Norge Publishing who now runs his own media consultancy, is appointed for a fixed term of six years at the Nfi.
He has also been on the board of the Norwegian Publishers’ Association, Sf Norge, Sf Kino and Bonnier Multimedia.
“The publishing and film industries have much in common as well as differences,” Guldvog told local press.
“But both are strongly concerned by the challenges of new technology, new business models and new distribution channels.”
Culture minister Hadia Tajik said: “With Guldvog, we have a sharp leader who can continue Refseth’s good work.
“His long experience in the culture industry, film distributionand his knowledge of technological developmentsin culture willbe important inthe challenges the film...
Sindre Guldvog has been appointed managing director of the Norwegian Film Institute (Nfi), replacing Nina Refseth who will step down at the end of 2013, when her six-year contract expires.
Guldvog, a former CEO at Cappelen and Bonnier Norge Publishing who now runs his own media consultancy, is appointed for a fixed term of six years at the Nfi.
He has also been on the board of the Norwegian Publishers’ Association, Sf Norge, Sf Kino and Bonnier Multimedia.
“The publishing and film industries have much in common as well as differences,” Guldvog told local press.
“But both are strongly concerned by the challenges of new technology, new business models and new distribution channels.”
Culture minister Hadia Tajik said: “With Guldvog, we have a sharp leader who can continue Refseth’s good work.
“His long experience in the culture industry, film distributionand his knowledge of technological developmentsin culture willbe important inthe challenges the film...
- 6/20/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
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