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Finnish drama series project The Women I Think About At Night headed the winners at the TV Beats Co-Financing Market, part of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF).

Currently in development, comedy-drama The Women I Think About At Night follows a 40-year-old woman who reevaluates her life after her best friend becomes pregnant. It took the €50,000 Series Co-Production Development Award for most promising project, given as part of the Council of Europe’s Pilot Programme open to independent producers from Eurimages member states.

The 5x42-minute episode series is produced by Liisa Karpo for...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has unveiled the winners of its TV Beats Co-Financing Market, intended to foster creative collaborations in series co-production and empower independent producers.

Finnish drama “The Women I Think About at Night” took the event’s top honor, the Series Co-Production Development Award and its €50,000 purse, part of the Pilot Program for series co-productions, an initiative of the Council of Europe.

Produced by Liisa Karpo for Napafilms, the project turns on a 40-year-old art teacher with no family who one day abandons her comfortable but unsatisfying life. With the help of a group of fellow courageous women, past artists and explorers from history, she finds a new way of living.

The series is planned to be shot in a wide range of diverse locations as its protagonist explores the world, including Finland, Italy, Japan, Tibet, and Kenya. Anna Ruohonen is the show’s head writer and...

In her upcoming documentary, writer-director Anu Kuivalainen proves there are many ways of living a good life after 70 – be it with someone else or alone. Slated to premiere locally at the beginning of August, ongoing pandemic be damned, Anu Kuivalainen’s new documentary Still Into You – produced by Marianne Mäkelä and currently in post-production – takes a closer look at love after 70, as experienced by a widow slowly coming to terms with the death of her husband, a gay couple, a woman dating a much younger man, a husband struggling with his wife’s debilitating illness, and finally, an actress, Ritva Oksanen, making no apologies for valuing her freedom. “My own age and my own relationship were a starting point for this film,” the Lahti-born director explains to Cineuropa. A Jussi winner for 1994’s Christmas in the Distance, her most recent feature was 2017’s Into the Forest I...