09/06/2003

The Norwegian cinematographic world has issued its first response to the announcement of a reduction in funding for production support, a decision that was made last week by Stein Slyngstad, the director of Norsk filmfond . The trade unions’ of directors, producers, actors and allied industries have organised a protest march to take place in Oslo tomorrow at 13:00, to rally support against the 20% cut in the number of films to receive funding in 2004.
But for the moment, this “dark side of success” doesn’t seem to have had a bearing on the performance of films on the international markets.

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Last week Celluloid Dreams, which is in charge of sales of Kitchen Story, presented at the Quinzaine des Réalizateurs in Cannes, has handed over the American distribution rights to IFC Films. And America is also seems to be setting its sights on other Norwegian directors: 20th Century Fox has contacted Petter Næss, author of the successful Elling [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)