26/03/2013 - Anne Sewitsky's next project with producer Synnøve Hørsdal, WW2 documentary television series and four New Ways films, are supported by the Norwegian Film Institute

Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky (photo), whose feature debut Happy, Happy [+see also:
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Sewitsky and her producer, Synnøve Hørsdal of Maipo Film, were the fourth director-producer team to receive slate funding from the institute for the next two-three films; their second, the €3 million Homesick,will shoot from the autumn, to be released domestically late 2014 by Nordisk Film Distribusjon.

Happy, Happy writer Ragnhild Tronvoll has also scripted Sewitsky’s new feature about “family, belonging and destructive love”. Charlotte has found a new home with her boyfriend Dag and best friend Martha’s family, when she learns that she has a 10-year-younger brother; they meet, and her life is changed.

Norwegian director Stian Trovik’s Allied and Alone – a three-part WW2 television series, produced by Kristian Karlsen for Ekkofilm – received €0.2 million state  funding for the €1.3 million production about Nazi-Germany’s invasion of Norway in 1949 and the lack of support from its Allies, the UK and France.

Four “artistic and daring” projects by young Norwegian directors have been subsidised from the institute’s New Ways programme, including two features - Aasne Vaa Greibokk’s The Beauty, Ole Giæver’s Into the Wild – and two documentaries, Håvard Fossum’s Apophenia and Birgitte Sigmundstad’s Odel.