Norway signs European co-production convention
by Annika Pham
Norwegian Minister of Culture Trond Giske announced last Saturday, during the New Nordic Films market in Haugesund, that his country has just signed the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production.
”The goal is for Norway to become a film leader in the Nordic region. This is also a great stimulus to finance bigger film productions and to internationalise the Norwegian film industry,” said Giske.
Norway was the only of the five Nordic countries not to have ratified the Council of Europe's Film Treaty. Sweden and Denmark joined in 1994, Finland in 1995 and Iceland in 1997.
For Leif Holst Jensen, General Secretary of the Norwegian Producers & TV Association, this positive measure is the result of a long lobbying campaign from the local film industry. “It was essential that we get the government to ratify the Convention, before the parliamentary elections on September 14,” he said.
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