Øystein Karlsen for Kamerakameratene and Viafilm CaSt: Atle Antonsen, Tuva Novotny, Anders Baasmo Chris- tiansen, Agnes Kittelsen, Rolf Lassgård, Iben Hjejle, Kaja Varjord, Ine Hansen
ReleaSe Date: Autumn 2011 SaleS: Nordic World AS
øySteiN KaRlSeN has worked with commercials, short films and music videos as well as radio and TV. He is educated as actor at Arts Educational School in London. He has written, directed and produced Dag and Dag 2, and Fox Television Studios has bought the rights for remake. He has also direct- ed the feature film Fuck Up.
A boy with very special abilities moves into the twilight zone between life and death in order to help confused souls find their way - back to life or into the realm of death.
“Dauinger”
DiReCtoR of pHotogRapHy: Patrick Säfström
pRoDUCeRS: Agnete Thuland and Arne Berggren for Rubicon TV CaSt: Ruben Utaker, Felix C. Øverlie, Maren Melby, Gard Eidsvold, Hanne Kariin Dahle, Jannik Bonnevie, Espen Reboli Bjerke, Evy Kasseth Røsten
ReleaSe Date: 2012 CoNtaCt: Rubicon TV
aRNe beRggReN has written novels, books for children and youth, and essays. He made his literary debut in 1991. He has written five books about Aldo Monrad, the teenager from hell. His theatre plays have been performed on stages in Oslo and Bergen, and he has written screenplays for TV series and films. In 2009, he was the originator, co-producer and main writer of the TV series Hvaler for TV2 as well as director of three of the episodes. maRgRet beRgHeim is an expe- rienced film and TV-director since 1999 with more than a hundred hours of TV-drama on the record sheet.
The Half Brother is a dramatic family saga that offers an historical parable of 20th century Europe. On V Day, May 1945, as a continent emerges from war, Barnum’s mother Vera is raped in her attic in Oslo by an unknown man, leading to the birth of Barnum’s half brother, Fred. When Barnum is born five years later, to the man that Vera has since met and married, the Nilsen family, like Europe, is already splitting in two. Growing up together during the Cold War – Barnum with his father, Fred searching for his – the half brothers become estranged and Fred eventually disappears. At the film festival in Berlin in 1990, as the Wall is still com- ing down, Barnum learns that Fred has returned. Finally, as the true identity of Fred’s father comes to light, the two half brothers may once again be reunited.
TV-DRAMA 61 DiReCtoRS of pHotogRapHy: John Christian Rosenlund and Lars Vestergaard
pRoDUCeR: Olav Øen for Monster Film
CaSt: Nicolai Cleve Broch, Frank Kjosås, Agnes Kittelsen, Ghita Nørby, Marianne Nielsen, Mariann Hole, Ola G. Furu- seth, Jon Øigarden
ReleaSe Date: Winter 2013
NoRwegiaN DiStRibUtoR: SF Norge AS SaleS: AB Svensk Filmindustri
peR-olav SøReNSeN (1963) is a director, playwright, screenwriter and producer, with experience from both thea- tre, television and film. Since 1992 he has directed numer- ous successful plays on international and Norwegian theater stages alike. Since 2004 Sørensen has worked increasingly with motion pictures, and starting with television drama pro- duction. He made his debut as a feature film director with the “apocalypse-comedy” People in the Sun in 2011.
The director of cult hit Dead Snow and Paramount’s upcoming blockbuster Hansel and Gretel – Witch Hunters joins forces with the best Norwegian directors and Top-Notch Scandinavian actors to give you a TV-series unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Hellfjord is the story of the urban police officer Salmander – a second generation Pakistani immigrant – who after somewhat accidentally killing his police horse in front of thousands of children, gets relocated to the location farthest north in Norway; Hellfjord. Hellfjord is populated by typical Norwe- gians, simple-minded people keenly interested in keeping to themselves. But when Salmander scratches the surface, he discovers a secret that will turn Hellfjord upside down. Maybe even inside out.
Uthaug
SCReeNplay: Tommy Wirkola, Zahid Ali, Stig Frode Henriksen
DiReCtoR of pHotogRapHy: Matt Weston
pRoDUCeRS: Terje Strømstad, Anne Bergseng and Kjetil Omberg for Tappeluft Pictures
CaSt: Zahid Ali, Stig Frode Henriksen, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Pihla Viitala, Thomas Hanzon, Maria Bock
ReleaSe Date: Autumn 2012 NoRwegiaN DiStRibUtoR: NRK CoNtaCt: Tappeluft Pictures
7 episodes – 7 directors: tommy wiRKola, patRiK Sy- veRSeN, KeNNetH olaf HJellUm, ole giæveR, SebaStiaN DalÉN, vegaR Hoel, RoaR UtHaUg.
After Frank “The Fixer” Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in a small town in the Norwegian countryside called Lillehammer.
TV-DRAMA 63 DiReCtoRS of pHotogRapHy: Johan-Fredrik Bødtker and Jakob Ingimundarson
pRoDUCeRS: Agnete Thuland and Trond Berg-Nilssen for Rubicon TV
CaSt: Steven Van Zandt, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Mariann Saastad Ottesen, Steinar Sagen, Kyrre Hellum, Anne Krigsvoll, Sven Nordin, Fridtjof Såheim
ReleaSe Date: 2012 SaleS: SevenOne International
SimeN alSviK is educated at Volda Documentary Film School. He has worked as a director since 1996 making com- mercials, short films, documentaries and TV comedy series. geiR HeNNiNg HoplaND started his career in NRK. He has directed the black humour-series House of Singles (2005) and the highly acclaimed tv-drama Buzz Aldrin, What Ever Hap- pened to You? (2010). liSa maRie gamlem graduated as a director from the Norwegian Film School in June 2004. Her TV mini-series Ping Pong was nominated for an International Emmy in the Children & Young category in 2008. Her short film Cold (2011) was selected for Cannes Int. Film Festival in 2011.
The Unit is a specialized task force within the Norwegian police specialized for working with serious crimes against children. The five extraordinary members of the team are experts in the fields of pathology, technical forensics, traditional police investigation and psychological profiling. Each episode ends with them solving a case except for the unwinding backstory of the female investigator’s traumatic secret past that goes as a red line through the series reaching its climax in episode 12.
pher Haug, Øyvind Rune Stålen, Anne Elvestad
DiReCtoRS of pHotogRapHy: Knut Aas, Hans Krsitian Riise, Øystein Essén Lundstrøm, Patrik Säfström, Odd Helge Haugsnes, Raymond Aasen
pRoDUCeRS: Mimi Cejka and Trond Berg-Nilssen for Rubicon TV CaSt: Marte Germaine Christensen, Christian Skolmen, Bjørn Sundquist, Yasmine Garbi, Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Dennis Storhøi, Øystein Roger
ReleaSe Date: September 2011 SaleS: SevenOne International
maRgRet beRgHeim, the conceptual director of the series is an experienced film and TV-director since 1999 with more than a hundred hours of TV-drama on the record sheet. JaNiC HeeN is is educated from the Norwegian Film School at Lille- hammer and made the series Brothers for NRK, screened in 2011. He is also a talented director of commercials. tRoND beRg-NilSSeN is also one of the producers of the series. For several years he has been the head producer of Scandinavia’s longest running soap; Hotel Caesar.