The Shamer’s Daughter to launch Nepenthe’s Kaaberbøl franchise
- Danish director Kenneth Kainz will direct Anders Thomas Jensen’s adaption of the fantasy-adventure, now supported by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Danish director Kenneth Kainz, who most recently signed the fully-animated comedy, Otto Is a Rhino [+see also:
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Previously adapted for the stage, The Shamer’s Daughter [+see also:
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The Oslo-based fund has also backed The Deposit, the second movie by Swedish director Lisa Aschan, whose She-Monkeys [+see also:
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film profile] won three Guldbagger – Sweden’s national film prize – including Best Feature and Best Original Screenplay. A horror drama based on a play by Johannes Anyuru and Aleksander Motturi, the Anna-Maria Kantarius production for Garagefilm International is set in a secluded room, where people come and go while others are locked in and sometimes removed to be brought to a place worse than hell. Shooting from January 13, the project received €0.1 million.
Two documentaries were subsidized by the fund: produced by Margarete Jangård for WG Film, Swedish director Fredrik Gertten’s Bikes and Cars looks at both the struggle of bicyclists in a society dominated by cars, and the changes which would be possible if more cities moved away from car-centric models; inThe Circus Dynasty, produced by Hansen & Pedersen Film and Fjernsyn, Danish director Anders Riis-Hansen describes the backstage lives of circus artists: Benny Berdino, the owner of a large circus, hopes his grandson Patrick will marry circus artist Merrylu. But mixing love and business is not easy.
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