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Exclusive: Viaplay has lightened the tone of its originals slate with the greenlight of R.S.V.P., a Swedish romcom featuring The Emigrants star Lisa Carlehed as lead.

Airing later this year and based on award-winning Danish feature Long Story Short, the Nent streamer’s latest spans four years and is structured around nine chapters, each of which focuses on a different holiday celebration. At the center of the narrative is Klara (Carlehed), a 37-year-old single nurse whose perpetual search for love is increasingly causing her to question whether it even exists.

Miso Film, who last week revealed it had signed former Dr Head of Drama Christian Rank, is producing, award-winning Jordskott actor Moa Gammel is directing and Ella Lemhagen is writing.

Alongside Carlehed, who was recently nominated for Best Actress at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards for Erik Poppe’s The Emigrants, the film features Oscar Töringe (Thin Blue Line...

"Breaking Surface" is the new action thriller, written and directed by Joachim Hedén, starring Moa Gammel, Madeleine Martin and Trine Wiggen, releasing December 16, 2020:

"...a winter diving trip in Norway turns into a desperate race against time for two sisters when one of them becomes trapped on the bottom of the ocean by falling rocks..."

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Diving drama also closes new deals for Canada, China, Japan and Turkey.

Music Box Films has acquired US rights to survival drama Breaking Surface from TrustNordisk.

The company plans a late 2020 release under its genre film label, Doppelgänger Releasing.

TrustNordisk has also newly sold the film to Canada (Mongrel); China (Ascent Films); Japan (Gaga Communications) and Turkey (Filmarti).

Joachim Hedén directs Moa Gammel and Madeleine Martin in the story of Swedish/Norwegian half-sisters who go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, where they get trapped underwater after a rockslide. The film shot on location in Sweden and Norway,...

TrustNordisk has done a slew of sales on its diving survival drama Breaking Surface.

TrustNordisk has done a slew of sales on its diving survival drama Breaking Surface.

Key sales include to France (Ab Droits); Spain (Youplanet); Germany and German-speaking Europe (Koch); Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean (California Filmes); Russia, Ukraine and Baltics (Russian World Vision); Italy (Minerva); Czech Republic and Slovakia (Foxx New Media); Korea (Film Company Challan), and the Balkans (Discovery).

Joachim Hedén directs Moa Gammel and Madeleine Martin in the story of Swedish/Norwegian half sisters who go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway,...

Norway’s Sara Johnsen has won the 2020 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for her writing on Nrk’s “22 July,” a six-part painstaking – and often inevitably pained – reconstruction using fictional composite characters but often meticulously recreated scenes of how Norway reacted to its 2011 terror attacks.

The award, for outstanding screenwriting, was presented to Johnsen at a ceremony on Wednesday evening at the TV Drama Vision section of this week’s Göteborg Film Festival in Sweden. The kudos comes with a Nok 200,000 cash endowment.

Best known as the writer-director of award-winning feature films – “Kissed by Winter”, “Upperdog,” “All That Matters is Past” – Johnsen served as head writer on “22 July,” a series created for Norwegian pubcaster production arm Nrk Drama by Johnsen and Pål Sletaune and directed by Sletaune. It is distributed by the U.K.-based Drg, part of the Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent).

Not to be confused with Paul Greengrass’ Netflix movie,...

The Nordisk Film & TV Fond is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a new CEO at the helm: Writer, producer and chair of the Ebu Fiction Expert Group Liselott Forsman.

This week, the executive heads to the Göteborg Film Festival as one of the event’s key figures. There, she will preside the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize ceremony and introduce this year’s jury: Actor Moa Gammel, actor Jakob Oftebro journalist Cecilie Asker of Norway’s Aftenposten, and producer-director Dariusz Jablonski. Five Nordic drama series will compete for this year’s prize of Nok 200,000.

Earlier this month, Forseman outlined her vision for the upcoming year in a state of the union style letter published in the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Newsletter. The fund’s primary mandate is to support and promote high-end film and TV productions across Nordic territories through the distribution of financing for features, TV fiction, and documentaries,...

Nordisk Film will distribute in Scandinavia with the theatrical launch planned for the end of 2019.

TrustNordisk has boarded sales for survival drama Breaking Surface, which writer/director Joachim Hedén is shooting now.

Moa Gammel and Madeleine Martin star in the story of Swedish/Norwegian half sisters who go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.

Breaking Surface is shooting at Lites studios in Flanders at the world’s deepest water tank; it is the first film to shoot there.

After Belgium, the film will shoot in Strömstad, Sweden; Lofoten, Norway; and Göteborg,...

Those who enjoyed the eerie events of Jordskott will be pleased to know that main character Eva Thörnblad is returning to tackle another mystery in the second season of the Shudder series, and ahead of the January 18th premiere, we have a look at a tense teaser trailer for season 2:

Press Release: New York, New York — 5 December — AMC Networks’ premium subscription streaming video service Shudder continues to build its offering of thrilling, dark and critically-acclaimed international genre series with premieres of Scandinavian Noir mystery Black Lake debuting on December 21st and Season 2 of acclaimed international thriller Jordskott following on January 18th, 2018.

Jordskott Season 2, which will premiere on Shudder in the Us and Canada, sees the return of tough police detective Eva Thornblad (Moa Gammel) in this eerie, Nordic Noir series laced with Gothic menace. Eva returns to her old job in Stockholm in an attempt to put the haunting...

Hailing out of Sweden, the second season of “Jordskott” is set to premiere this coming fall. The first season was released this morning that shows some sort of spreading epidemic. In the first season, Detective Inspector Eva Thörnblad (Moa Gammel) returns to Silver Height seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared by a lake in […]...

Mysterious vanishings rock a small-town community in Jordskott, and if you live in North America and haven't yet seen the acclaimed Swesdish TV series, then you're in luck, because Shudder has acquired North American rights to the first season (and the yet-to-be-released second season), which will premiere on the streaming service on April 6th.

Press Release: AMC Networks-backed premium streaming service Shudder announced today that it has acquired exclusive North American rights for Season 1 and the upcoming Season 2 of the acclaimed international thriller series Jordskott from ITV Studios Global Entertainment (Itvs Ge). Declared by The Guardian as a series “you can’t take your eyes off of”, Jordskott Season 1 will launch with the first two episodes available on April 6th with two new episodes premiering each week on Shudder.

Season 1 of the critically acclaimed Scandi-noir thriller revolves around the seven-year disappearance of police investigator Eva Thörnblad’s daughter, Josefine. Still...

Shudder, the premium streaming service backed by AMC Networks, has acquired the Scandi-noir drama Jordskott from ITV Studios Global Entertainment. The first two episodes of Season 1 will launch April 6, with two new episodes premiering each week thereafter. The 10-episode first season focuses on the seven-year disappearance of police investigator Eva Thörnblad's daughter, Josefine. Still attempting to deal with the grief of her loss, Eva (Moa Gammel) is haunted by the…...

The Interceptor: BBC One, 9pm

BBC One is looking to recapture the spirit of action crime classics like The Professionals with this new action-adventure series.

The Interceptor kicks off tonight when Ash (Ot Fagbenle) is headhunted to join Unit, a special team of law enforcers.

Hannibal: Sky Living, 10pm

Us network television's most accomplished drama series returns with a typically gorgeous and grotesque season premiere.

'Antipasto' is quite a change of pace - there's no Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) here, as we pick up with Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) and Bedelia (Gillian Anderson) living a new life in Italy.

Murder in Successville: BBC Three, 10pm

The bonkers but brilliant BBC Three series concludes with the murder of Lindsay Lohan - but was the culprit Russell Brand or Kim Kardashian?

Louis Smith is the celebrity on hand to assist Di Sleet (Tom Davis) for the final Murder in Successville - but...

The latest in a string of stylish crime thrillers to emerge from Scandinavia, Tommy is the new film from Swedish director Tarik Saleh, and offers a blistering change of pace to 2009's animated sci-fi odyssey Metropia.A daring airport robbery and 4 million Euros in swag proves the catalyst for an intricately played tale of deception and betrayal in the wintry climes of Swedish capital Stockholm over the Christmas holidays. Mob wife Estelle (Moa Gammel) returns to Sweden from Sri Lanka, determined to collect her husband Tommy's share of the loot. Feared throughout the city, Tommy is rumoured to be dead, and suspicions grow when Estelle is stopped bringing what appears to be an urn of ashes into the country. With another of the gang already murdered...

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Company closes multiple sales on Heart of a Lion [pictured].

Swedish sales outfit The Yellow Affair is reporting a roaring trade on its Cannes slate.

The company has closed multiple sales on Heart Of A Lion by Dome Karukoski.

Deals concluded are: Benelux (Jupiter (communications), Italy (Ripley’s Film), Sweden (Starlet Media), Australia/New Zealand (Vendetta/ Gamewizz Interactive), Bulgaria (A Plus Films), Czech Republic (Film Europe), Hungary (Vertigo Media, Estonia (Estinfilm).

Other territories are expected to close shortly.

Heart Of A Lion received its premiere in Toronto last year.

The Finnish drama tells the story of a Neo-Nazi Teppo, who falls in love with a woman named Sari. He later finds out that Sari’s son from the previous marriage is black. This puts Teppo in trouble with his fellow Neo-Nazis, especially his half-brother Harri.

In addition, Yellow Affair has closed an all rights deal with Cac in South Korea for the film Home.

Maximilian Hult’s film...

When we last heard from Swedish director Tarik Saleh he was on the festival circuit with his animated science fiction film Metropia. Well, he's back now and working in an entirely different sphere with his latest effort, Tommy.Moa Gammel stars as Estelle, the wife of a mid tier gangster living on the run after a job gone bad. But just before Christmas Estelle returns home with the couple 's young daughter and a very simple message: Tommy is coming home and it's time for everyone to pay their debts.Due for release in March 2014, the first trailer for this one has arrived and it looks very much like it could end up being the next buzz title in the current wave of Scandinavian crime stories....

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Bronze Horse for best film goes to The Selfish Giant. More wins for Fruitvale Station, Miss Violence and Screen Star of Tomorrow George MacKay.Scroll down for full list of winners

UK film The Selfish Giant has picked up the Bronze Horse for best film at the 24th Stockholm Film Festival (Nov 6-17).

It marks the second consecutive year a film by a female director has won the top prize at Stockholm, after Cate Shortland’s Lore picked up the award last year.

The film, about two young friends who gather scrap metal for cash, was described by the jury as “a uniquely complete film. Shattering, to the point, poetic, believable, delicate, humorous. The sensitive interaction between the two main actors has resulted in the most touching portrayal of friendship we’ve seen in film. Only someone hard-hearted could fail to love this film.”

The Selfish Giant, which debuted at Cannes, is represented...