The fifth edition will see the TV festival return to its original springtime slot to run alongside MipTV.
French Oscar-winning director Xavier De Lestrade’s investigative thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath and Danish bio-series The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen are among the 10 new series selected for competition in the upcoming edition of French TV festival Canneseries (April 1-6).
The fifth edition sees the event return its traditional springtime slot coinciding with the MipTV content market (April 4-6), after the festival moved to September in 2021 due to the Covid-pandemic.
Political thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath stars Alix Poisson...
French Oscar-winning director Xavier De Lestrade’s investigative thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath and Danish bio-series The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen are among the 10 new series selected for competition in the upcoming edition of French TV festival Canneseries (April 1-6).
The fifth edition sees the event return its traditional springtime slot coinciding with the MipTV content market (April 4-6), after the festival moved to September in 2021 due to the Covid-pandemic.
Political thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath stars Alix Poisson...
- 3/8/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Mtg’s streaming service Viaplay has ordered a second season of its original series “The Great Escape,” a Swedish format which was named Children’s Program of the Year at last year’s Kristallen Awards.
“‘The Great Escape’ follows a Christmas calendar format, with a new episode released every day from Dec.1 to Christmas Eve, and is produced in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish versions. Beppe Singer, Ole André Sivertsen and Niels Christian Meyer headline a local cast in each respective country.
The series is being produced by Nexiko, a Stockholm-based production company, for Viaplay.
Jakob Mejlhede, Mtg’s exec VP and head of programming and content development,” said “The Great Escape” has sparked a “huge demand from kids and parents for a second season.”
“Thousands of budding young scientists across the Nordic region can’t be wrong – mixing creative experiments with a dramatic storyline is a winning formula,” said Mejlhede,...
“‘The Great Escape’ follows a Christmas calendar format, with a new episode released every day from Dec.1 to Christmas Eve, and is produced in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish versions. Beppe Singer, Ole André Sivertsen and Niels Christian Meyer headline a local cast in each respective country.
The series is being produced by Nexiko, a Stockholm-based production company, for Viaplay.
Jakob Mejlhede, Mtg’s exec VP and head of programming and content development,” said “The Great Escape” has sparked a “huge demand from kids and parents for a second season.”
“Thousands of budding young scientists across the Nordic region can’t be wrong – mixing creative experiments with a dramatic storyline is a winning formula,” said Mejlhede,...
- 4/5/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Nicolo Donato’s feature about the escape of Danish Jews in 1943 to star Danica Curcic and David Dencik among others.
Brotherhood director Nicolo Donato is to return with Fuglene over sundet, a Second World War film about the escape of Jews from Denmark in October 1943.
The cast includes Danica Curcic, David Dencik, Laura Bro, Jacob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro, Signe Egholm Olsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Lars Brygmann.
Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri’s Danish subsidiary Sf Film and production entity Sf Film production will produce.
It marks the follow-up to Donato’s neo-Nazi drama, Brotherhood, which won prizes including the Golden Marc’Aurelio Award at the Rome Film Festival in 2009.
Set in 1943, it centres on Arne Itkin, a famous Jewish jazz musician living in Copenhagen with his wife Miriam and their five-year-old son Jacob.
Rumours about deportation of the Danish Jews start to flourish, and when rumors suddenly turn to reality the Itkin-family is forced to flee their...
Brotherhood director Nicolo Donato is to return with Fuglene over sundet, a Second World War film about the escape of Jews from Denmark in October 1943.
The cast includes Danica Curcic, David Dencik, Laura Bro, Jacob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro, Signe Egholm Olsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Lars Brygmann.
Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri’s Danish subsidiary Sf Film and production entity Sf Film production will produce.
It marks the follow-up to Donato’s neo-Nazi drama, Brotherhood, which won prizes including the Golden Marc’Aurelio Award at the Rome Film Festival in 2009.
Set in 1943, it centres on Arne Itkin, a famous Jewish jazz musician living in Copenhagen with his wife Miriam and their five-year-old son Jacob.
Rumours about deportation of the Danish Jews start to flourish, and when rumors suddenly turn to reality the Itkin-family is forced to flee their...
- 7/3/2015
- ScreenDaily
Forbrydelsen, Season 1: Episode 1 – “Episode 1″
Written by Per Daumiller, Torleif Hoppe, Michael W. Horsten & Soren Sveistrup
Directed by Birger Larsen
Aired on January 7th, 2007 on DR1
The Killing, Season 1: Episode 1 – “Pilot”
Written by Veena Sud
Directed by Patty Jenkins
Aired on April 3rd, 2011 on AMC
While most current television viewers will probably have at least heard of AMC’s The Killing (which has been cancelled twice only to be renewed twice and will have a final, shortened season on Netflix), few Americans will have encountered Forbrydelsen, the Danish series The Killing is based on. And though the commonly held opinion of The Killing is that it turned into an elongated train wreck of a story for its first two seasons, there’s an almost unanimous respect for its exciting and well-executed pilot. The Killing‘s pilot certainly owes a lot to its Danish predecessor–and if you watch both back-to-back,...
Written by Per Daumiller, Torleif Hoppe, Michael W. Horsten & Soren Sveistrup
Directed by Birger Larsen
Aired on January 7th, 2007 on DR1
The Killing, Season 1: Episode 1 – “Pilot”
Written by Veena Sud
Directed by Patty Jenkins
Aired on April 3rd, 2011 on AMC
While most current television viewers will probably have at least heard of AMC’s The Killing (which has been cancelled twice only to be renewed twice and will have a final, shortened season on Netflix), few Americans will have encountered Forbrydelsen, the Danish series The Killing is based on. And though the commonly held opinion of The Killing is that it turned into an elongated train wreck of a story for its first two seasons, there’s an almost unanimous respect for its exciting and well-executed pilot. The Killing‘s pilot certainly owes a lot to its Danish predecessor–and if you watch both back-to-back,...
- 3/31/2014
- by Sean Colletti
- SoundOnSight
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