The Swedish Film Institute announces its final round of funding for 2018
- The latest films by Amanda Kernell, Johannes Nyholm and Jon Blåhed are among the recipients
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The Swedish Film Institute has announced its latest and final round of funding for the year, with a total of 27 films to receive support in five different categories, totalling SEK 45,391,000 (€4,395,000).
Fiction features will receive a total of SEK 25 million (€2.4 million) across six projects. Amanda Kernell (Sámi Blood [+see also:
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interview: Lars Lindstrom
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film profile], produced by Lars G Lindström and Eva Åkergren for Sweden’s Nordisk Film Production, will receive SEK 9 million (€871,000). Mårten Klingberg’s (Cockpit) will receive the same amount of funding for his third feature, My Father Marianne [+see also:
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Inland [+see also:
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film profile] by Jon Blåhed is the first feature involved in the Swedish Film Institute’s new “Moving Sweden” format. Written by the director, the story follows a woman from Stockholm who moves to her boyfriend’s hometown. Despite their relationship ending before her arrival, she decides to stay in the new town and adapt to a new unexpected life. Produced by Andreas Emanuelsson and Tony Österholm for Bd Film, the project has received SEK 2.5 million (€242,000). Already confirmed to premiere at Sundance, Johannes Nyholm‘s follow-up to The Giant [+see also:
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In terms of international co-productions, Danish filmmaker Jonas Alexander Arnby’s second mystery romantic drama, Suicide Tourist [+see also:
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Seven documentaries also received funding from the Swedish Film Institute: An Army of Lovers [+see also:
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film profile] by Ingrid Ryberg, produced by HER Films, with SEK 1.7 million (€164,500), Jozi Gold by Fredrik Gertten and Sylvia Vollenhoven, produced by WG Film, with SEK 1.7 million (€164,500), Tiny Tim - King for a Day [+see also:
interview: Johan von Sydow
film profile] by Johan von Sydow, produced by Momento Film, with SEK 1.5 million (€145,200), Mating by Lina Maria Mannheimer, produced by French Quarter Film, with SEK 1.5 million (€145,200), The Revenge of the Diva [+see also:
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film profile] by Emelie Jönsson and Gustav Ahlgren, produced by Ett riktigt produktionsbolag, with SEK 900,000 (€87,100), Flee by Jonas Pohr Rasmussen, produced by Final Cut for Real, with SEK 670,000 (€64,900) and Ninosca - the return to San Fernando by Peter Torbiörnsson, produced by Mantaray Film AB, with SEK 400,000 (€38,700).
Finally, the TV film Amningsrummet by Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli and produced by Nexiko Drama, received SEK 1.8 million (€174,300) and 12 short films received a total of SEK 3,195,000 (€309,400) in funding.
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