09/09/2003

Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), the UK based production company run by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor has three Scandinavian co-productions in the works. Currently shooting in Reykjavik is Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Niceland, a £2.5m film with Kerry Fox (Intimacy), Gary Lewis (Gangs of New York) and Martin Comston (Sweet Sixteen). The film is co-produced with Iceland's Zik Zak Production, Germany's Tradewind Pictures, Denmark's Nimbus Film and sold by Bavaria Film International.

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Also shooting until October in Copenhagen is Strings, an epic fantasy puppet movie directed by Anders R.Klarlund. The Bald Films production from Denmark is co-produced with F&ME, Bob Films, Nordisk Film, Zentropa and Sandrews Metronome.

In post-production with a delivery date set for the end of the month is the Icelandic film Cold Light written and directed by Hilmar Oddsson (Tears of Stone). The film is an Icelandic-UK-German co-production between the Icelandic Film Corporation, F&ME and Lichtblick Produktion.
F&ME just came back from Venice where its film Loving Glances by Srdjan Karanovic was shown in competition.