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Brighter times ahead for FilmCamp, which will shoot three Thørring thrillers

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- The resource and production centre, operating at a former military camp in Northern Norway, is back on track with a €5.9 million production package

After a turbulent year of 2012 – and the first deficit in the accounts, although small (€13,606), since 2007 – Norwegian regional film centre, FilmCamp, in Målselv, Øverbygd, Northern Norway, is looking to brighter times ahead.

“We lost €117,000 state support, and a Norwegian production we had counted on here went to Iceland – but everything is under control,” said managing director Kjetil Jensberg, confirming the centre is still operative, with the €150,000 equity intact.

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FilmCamp has returned to the government budget, with a €327,000 backing for this year, and recently Jensberg announced he had landed one of FilmCamp’s so far largest productions, Norwegian director Nils Gaup’s three thrillers from Tromsø-author Jorun Thørring’s novels.

Owned by seven municipalities since established at a former military camp in 2005, the resource and production centre has been involved in 21 film productions, investing €2.5 million, which has created business worth €9.4 in the region.

“Projects are now queuing up,” explained film consultant Svein Andersen. “Gaup will shoot the first Thørring story between September 1-October 15, The Glass Dolls, and it will be the first time Tromsø is the centre of the action, with local head of police Aslak Eira as lead character.”

When the Sámi inspector eventually has identified the serial killer in the 2006 novel, he will investigate The Eye of Fire (2009) and the mystery in a third book yet to be published, on a total production budget of €5.9 million.

The three Gaup thrillers in Norwegian Lapland, which will be completed within two years, will be staged by Norwegian producers Tomas Backström, Petter Borgli (who backed Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjærg’s Insomnia).

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