Exclusive: Swedish film bodies join forces for push.
Film i Väst, Swedish Television and the Swedish Film Institute (Sfi) are joining forces to boost Sweden’s number of films aimed at young audiences.
Initiative Bombay Basic, led by former Sfi consultant Linus Stöhr Torell, will see the trio of Swedish backers and production company Copenhagen Bombay - run by producer Sarita Christensen [pictured] - develop original features for the youth market with industry.
The partners aim to release two films theatrically per year and will also provide marketing support.
“We have identified a need to modernize children’s films to make them relevant to the kids in Sweden today. Bombay Basic is the first step for the Swedish Film Institute to further develop and focus on children’s films,” explained Hjalmar Palmgren, director of production funding. ...
Film i Väst, Swedish Television and the Swedish Film Institute (Sfi) are joining forces to boost Sweden’s number of films aimed at young audiences.
Initiative Bombay Basic, led by former Sfi consultant Linus Stöhr Torell, will see the trio of Swedish backers and production company Copenhagen Bombay - run by producer Sarita Christensen [pictured] - develop original features for the youth market with industry.
The partners aim to release two films theatrically per year and will also provide marketing support.
“We have identified a need to modernize children’s films to make them relevant to the kids in Sweden today. Bombay Basic is the first step for the Swedish Film Institute to further develop and focus on children’s films,” explained Hjalmar Palmgren, director of production funding. ...
- 2/10/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Klara Grunning and Antonio Russo Merenda appointed documentary film commissioners.
Klara Grunning and Antonio Russo Merenda have been appointed documentary film commissioners at the Swedish Film Institute, taking over from Cecilia Lidin.
It means the production funding section for documentaries will double, with two commissioners dealing with applications for funding.
Swedish documentaries to gain international recognition in recent years include Oscar-winner Searching For Sugar Man and Concerning Violence.
Hjalmar Palmgren, head of the Production Funding unit, said Grunning will join early next autumn, and Lidin has agreed to stay on in her current post until then.
Grunning has been a film commissioner at the Danish Film Institute since 2010, arranging funding for documentaries, many of which have been Danish-Swedish projects.
Prior to that she worked Itvs in the Us during her 18 year stay there, and at Kudos Family Distribution in Norway as a VP distribution, and as producer and cinematographer for documentaries and also as a production consultant...
Klara Grunning and Antonio Russo Merenda have been appointed documentary film commissioners at the Swedish Film Institute, taking over from Cecilia Lidin.
It means the production funding section for documentaries will double, with two commissioners dealing with applications for funding.
Swedish documentaries to gain international recognition in recent years include Oscar-winner Searching For Sugar Man and Concerning Violence.
Hjalmar Palmgren, head of the Production Funding unit, said Grunning will join early next autumn, and Lidin has agreed to stay on in her current post until then.
Grunning has been a film commissioner at the Danish Film Institute since 2010, arranging funding for documentaries, many of which have been Danish-Swedish projects.
Prior to that she worked Itvs in the Us during her 18 year stay there, and at Kudos Family Distribution in Norway as a VP distribution, and as producer and cinematographer for documentaries and also as a production consultant...
- 11/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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