Bestselling Wildwitch series of books to become a family movie
- Director Kaspar Munk is filming the story of a city girl who discovers she belongs to an old genus of wild witches with a close connection to nature and animals
Since You & Me Forever [+see also:
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Kaaberbøl, whose The Shamer’s Daughter (2000) was adapted for a musical (2012), then for Danish director Kenneth Kainz’s award-winning feature [+see also:
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Danish screenwriters Bo Hr Hansen and Poul Berg have delivered the script for Wildwitch, in which newcomer Gerda Lie Kaas plays the lead as Clara, flanked by a cast including Sonja Richter, Signe Egholm, Kirsten Olesen and May Lifschitz. Good Company’s Anni Faurbye Fernandez and Stinna Lassen are producing in collaboration with Danish commercial broadcaster TV2, the UK’s Nevision, Sweden’s Yellow Bird, Norway’s Cinenord Kidstory and Hungary’s Proton, among others. Nordisk Film will handle the Nordic distribution (the premiere is scheduled for 11 October 2018), while Denmark’s TrustNordisk is charge of the international sales.
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