A slew of Sámi TV and film projects are in the works or due for release in 2023. At the North Pitch session at the Tromsø International Film Festival in northern Norway, the variety and quantity of projects in the pipeline was impressive. From the musical “Árru” to the love story “My Reindeerherder;” from documentaries to “Sámi Wedding – A Countdown to Disaster,” a four-part TV comedy, Sámi culture is attracting investment and distribution. Global players like Netflix are already on board with a feature “Stolen,” directed by Elle Márjá Eira due to start filming in the Spring.
This moment hasn’t come out of nowhere, Anna Lajla Utsi, the managing director of the Sámi Film Institute maintains: “It’s a result of many, many years of hard work from both us at the Film Institute, trying to raise the funding, and also creating partnerships with Norwegian broadcaster Nrk Drama, Netflix, Telefilm Canada,...
This moment hasn’t come out of nowhere, Anna Lajla Utsi, the managing director of the Sámi Film Institute maintains: “It’s a result of many, many years of hard work from both us at the Film Institute, trying to raise the funding, and also creating partnerships with Norwegian broadcaster Nrk Drama, Netflix, Telefilm Canada,...
- 2/3/2023
- by John Bleasdale
- Variety Film + TV
Sarah Polley’s ‘Women Talking’ wins two prizes.
New projects from Norwegian filmmakers were showcased to US and European executives at the third edition of Fiction Norway, an invitation-only market running as part of the Tromso International Film Festival (TIFF), with support from the Norwegian Film Institute.
Reps from Netflix, XYZ, CAA Media Finance, Wild Bunch International, Globalgate, wiip, and North Road among others were in town to talk about projects that ranged from an environmentally-minded youth TV series to a natural disaster action feature.
One success story from the inaugural Fiction Norway event in 2020, Kjersti Helen Rasmussen’s genre title The Nightmare,...
New projects from Norwegian filmmakers were showcased to US and European executives at the third edition of Fiction Norway, an invitation-only market running as part of the Tromso International Film Festival (TIFF), with support from the Norwegian Film Institute.
Reps from Netflix, XYZ, CAA Media Finance, Wild Bunch International, Globalgate, wiip, and North Road among others were in town to talk about projects that ranged from an environmentally-minded youth TV series to a natural disaster action feature.
One success story from the inaugural Fiction Norway event in 2020, Kjersti Helen Rasmussen’s genre title The Nightmare,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Sarah Polley’s ‘Women Talking’ wins two prizes.
US and European experts from Netflix, XYZ, CAA Media Finance, Wild Bunch International, Globalgate, wiip, North Road and other top companies were in Tromso, Norway last week for the third edition of Fiction Norway, an invitation-only market from the Tromso International Film Festival (TIFF) with support from the Norwegian Film Institute.
One success story from the inaugural Fiction Norway event in 2020, Kjersti Helen Rasmussen’s genre title The Nightmare, sold by Wild Bunch, premiered at Fantastic Fest 2022 before screening in Sitges and the BFI London Film Festival. It had a buzzy sold-out...
US and European experts from Netflix, XYZ, CAA Media Finance, Wild Bunch International, Globalgate, wiip, North Road and other top companies were in Tromso, Norway last week for the third edition of Fiction Norway, an invitation-only market from the Tromso International Film Festival (TIFF) with support from the Norwegian Film Institute.
One success story from the inaugural Fiction Norway event in 2020, Kjersti Helen Rasmussen’s genre title The Nightmare, sold by Wild Bunch, premiered at Fantastic Fest 2022 before screening in Sitges and the BFI London Film Festival. It had a buzzy sold-out...
- 1/23/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The Sámi, the indigenous people in the far north of Europe and Russia, are ready to share their stories with the world. But only under certain conditions, says film commissioner Liisa Holmberg from the International Sámi Film Institute (Isfi).
“The most important thing is respect,” she notes, mentioning the Pathfinder Film Protocol – a set of guidelines and questions for non-Sámi filmmakers named after Nils Gaup’s 1987 Oscar-nominated drama.
“When the Sámi people may not have the same opportunity/resources to tell their stories, why am I the right person to [do it]? How will my film production benefit the Sámi community and what am I giving back? Is it right for me to take up this space?,” it states.
“People started to be interested in indigenous stories, but they would make them without us. We can’t stop them, but we can ask to be included,” says Holmberg.
“Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest...
“The most important thing is respect,” she notes, mentioning the Pathfinder Film Protocol – a set of guidelines and questions for non-Sámi filmmakers named after Nils Gaup’s 1987 Oscar-nominated drama.
“When the Sámi people may not have the same opportunity/resources to tell their stories, why am I the right person to [do it]? How will my film production benefit the Sámi community and what am I giving back? Is it right for me to take up this space?,” it states.
“People started to be interested in indigenous stories, but they would make them without us. We can’t stop them, but we can ask to be included,” says Holmberg.
“Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest...
- 9/25/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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