Thomas Vinterberg‘s “Households Like Ours,” “Stress Stage” from the writer of “Black Crab” and Erik Poppe’s “Quisling” rely amongst nominations for a high-powered Göteborg Nordic Assortment Script Award, crucial plaudit for TV screenwriting in Scandinavia.
Altering the Göteborg Pageant’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the Script Award nominations moreover soak up feminist porn comedy “Money Shot,” a Canneseries winner, and “The School of Housewives,” co-written and directed by Iceland’s Arnór Pálmi Arnarson, who helmed “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.
With regard to creative ambition, ranging broadly in sort from “Households’” near-future survival drama-thriller to “Stress Stage’s” nervy and compelling true-events recreation and “Quisling’s” boldly-told interval drama, these three sequence uncover modern-times horror.
“Households” charts an apocalypse that tears Denmark’s greater middle class apart all through Europe and plunges them proper right into a merciless and sometimes violent new world; “Stress Stage” plumbs neo-Nazism, “Quisling” nails the mindset of a delusional autocrat.
Far rosier, “Money Shot” and “School” moreover faucet a up to date Zeitgeist, exhibiting women taking larger administration of their lives, thanks partially to female solidarity.
In commerce phrases, the 5 sequence mark newest selections from numerous Europe’s powerhouse producers, broadcasters and distributors, led by Vinterberg’s “Households Like Ours,” produced by heavyweights Zentropa Enterprises, Studiocanal, Canal+ and TV 2 Danmark.
The Nordic Assortment Script Award nominees nonetheless compete for a substantial cash award of €17,000 ($17,700), financed by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond, which prizes the principal writer(s) of a Nordic drama sequence.
In a single change, candidates ought to have premiered their sequence inside the earlier 12 months: the earlier prize moreover served to anticipate a couple of of the large upcoming hits from Scandinavia.
In an additional new enchancment, The Nordic Assortment Awards will embrace an honorable level out, the Ingenious Braveness Award, which celebrates the producer and commissioner of a sequence that boldly pushes inventive boundaries and embraces innovation. Candidates are submitted by streamers and broadcasters.
Nordic Assortment Awards winners will be launched at a ceremony on the night time of Jan. 28 at Göteborg’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient.
“The writer award’s new determine has further weight in worldwide C.V.’s, as a result of it clearly defines that the prize goes to the easiest Nordic sequence script. One different welcome reform is that each one sequence that premiered in 2024 are eligible.
In these economically strong cases, commissioning risks having fun with safe. With the Ingenious Braveness Award, we want to clarify a commissioner-producer collaboration that has resulted in an exceptionally brave and progressive sequence. I’m now snug to see that we now have now good candidates in a lot of genres in every courses,” talked about Liselott Forsman, CEO at Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
“The selection demonstrates the number of tales rising from the world and indicators every the power of the present and a promising future for Nordic drama sequence,” added Cia Edström, head of Göteborg’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient.
The jury for the Nordic Assortment Script Award takes in Norwegian actor-screenwriter Henriette Steenstrup; Joanna Szymańska, producer-CEO at ShipsBoy, Poland and Linus Fremin, a TV Critic and inventive director at Sweden’s Make Your Mark.
Thomas Vinterberg, Bo hr. Hansen, Anna Bache-Wiig, Siv Rajendram Eliassen, Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir, Arnór Pálmi Arnarson, Pelle Rådström and Jemina Jokisalo.
Liisa Nurmela
TV Drama Imaginative and prescient runs Jan. 28-29, the forty eighth Göteborg Film Pageant from Jan. 24 by Feb. 2. Nordic Assortment Script Award nominations in extra component:
“Households Like Ours,” (“Familier som vores”)
Nominated writers: Thomas Vinterberg, Bo hr. Hansen
Denmark, 7×50′
Broadcaster: TV2 Denmark
Produced by: Zentropa Entertainments
Producers: Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing
Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg
Product sales: World: Studiocanal, moreover Benelux, which is handled by TrustNordisk
Premiere: Oct. 20, 2024
The first sequence from Vinterberg, a 2021 Oscar winner (“One different Spherical”) and 1998 Dogma 95 co-founder (“The Celebration”), the high-end, seven-part “Households” weighs in with a plausible impossibility: as Denmark begins to sink underneath the ocean, its authorities orders its full evacuation. As a result of it broadens its compass to France, Romania, Poland, the U.Okay. and lastly Finland, it holds its give consideration to Vinterberg verities – family, love – however moreover emerges as an greater middle class horror story the place expert preeminence means nothing and the well-healed extended family at its core falls foul to as quickly as unbelievable prospects: Human trafficking, brutal vigilante gangs and even murder.
“Money Shot,” (“Toinen tuleminen”)
Finland, 8×25′
Nominated writer: Jemina Jokisalo
Broadcaster: Elisa Viihde
Produced by: Merely Republic
Producers: Jemina Jokisalo, Samuli Norhomaa and Johanna Tarvainen
Directed by: Teemu Niukkanen
Product sales: Federation Studios and Nordisk Film
Premiere: Might 2, 2024
Merely most likely probably the most irreverent of the 5 entries and a short form sequence Scholar Award winner at 2024’s Canneseries: Sari, an over-the-hill porn actress, or so she’s knowledgeable, decided to hunt out work, teams with a film school reject to produce erotic motion pictures with and for a female gaze. “It’s pretty daring and completely completely different, significantly for a Finnish current, and I’m truly snug [broadcaster] Elisa Viihde had the braveness to price it. I always pursue tales I utterly love, with characters we’ll actually really feel for,” Jokisalo (“Savela,” “Makkari”) has knowledgeable Choice. “It’s super vibrant. It’s positively not one different Nordic Noir!”
Money Shot
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“Stress Stage,” (“Smärtpunkten”Sweden, 3×60’
Nominated writer: Pelle Rådström
Storyline: Wilhelm Behrman and Niklas Rockström
Broadcaster: SVT
Produced by: Kärnfilm and Paintings & Bob
Producer: Martina Stöhr
Directed by: Sanna Lenken
Product sales: ReInvent Worldwide Product sales
Premiere: Apr. 19, 2024
A dense, tense, true-event recreation of rehearsals for the play, “7:3,” created by renowned playwright Lars Norén and producer Isa Stenberg, by which two neo-Nazi inmates expound on stage their real-life neo-Nazi convictions and suggest what lead to them: Alienation, childhood injury. For Norén, this was an opportunity for a “distinctive story,” for Stenberg and some jail authorities a likelihood for rehabilitation, for one in every of many prisoners, the prospect to plan a monetary establishment theft, which shook Swedish society to the core. Written by Rådström (“Black Crab”) from an summary by Berhman (“Caliphate,” “Sooner than We Die”) and Rockström (“Caliphate,” “Wallander”).
Stress Stage
Credit score rating: Niklas Maupoix / SVT
Quisling
Norway, 5×45-50′
Nominated writers: Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen
Broadcaster: TV2 Norway
Produced by: Paradox Rettigheter AS
Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae
Directed by: Erik Poppe
Product sales: REInvent
Seen at Haugesund and Toronto as a 147-minute attribute, “Quisling: The Remaining Days” now competes for the Nordic Assortment Script Award as a weighty five-episode sequence mannequin which, in step with director Poppe, tells “a very completely completely different story,” with far more about Maria Quisling and priest Peder Olsen’s partner. However the sequence’ core benefit seems to be prefer to be the equivalent as a result of the attribute: “a penetrating psychological look at of a delusional authoritarian,” as Choice sassist in its consider, proper right here Vidkund Quisling, Hitler’s puppet Norwegian president. Just a few of that ought to come from the sequence screenwriters, Anna Bach-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen, who labored with Poppe on “Utøya, Jul. 22” and “The Emigrants,”
Quisling
“The School of Housewives,” (Húsó)
Iceland, 6×30′
Nominated writers: Arnór Pálmi Arnarson, Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir
Broadcaster: RÚV
Produced by: Glassriver
Producer: Arnbjörg Hafliðadóttir
Directed by: Arnór Pálmi Arnarson
Premiere: Jan. 1, 2024
A rehab widespread since a teen, Helka is distributed to a School of Housewives as her last likelihood for a court docket docket to grant her custody of her toddler daughter, now in foster care. Her coronary coronary heart’s within the exact place, which wins her unlikely allies. Nonetheless one issue’s learning to weave, crochet or cook dinner dinner pineapple haddock and one different’s for Helka to withstand her addictions and inside demons. A feel-good dramedy – and ultimately tearjerker – yoking the talents as writers of Arnór Palmi Arnarson, moreover director of “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, multi-prized actor-scribe Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir (“Sisterhood,” “Agnes Pleasure”), and Icelandic manufacturing powerhouse Glassriver (“Black Sands,” “As Prolonged As We Dwell”).
The School of Housewives
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