Top trio at AFM
by Annika Pham
Scandinavia’s top three sales companies – NonStop Sales, Svensk Filmindustri (SF) and TrustNordisk – are attending the American Film Market in Los Angeles (November 5-12) with several premieres.
These include SF’s Patrick Age 1.5, recently sold to Swift for France, and NonStop’s The Man Who Loved Yngve [+see also:
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NonStop Sales is screening the Finnish family film Stormheart, the children’s animation film Moomin and Midsummer Madness, Norwegian title The Man Who Loved Yngve, the Swedish vampire drama Not Like Others, the chiller Manhunt and the quality animation film Gnomes & Trolls: The Secret Chamber, the latter which had already sold to some 70 territories.
The second film, Gnomes and Trolls: The Forest Trial, also produced by White Shark with Oscar-nominated executive producers Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, is currently in production and Roger Moore and Peter Stormare are lending their voices to gnome King Leif and evil troll Mini, respectively.
SF will hold market premieres of the top grossing Scandinavian epic Arn: The Knight Templar [+see also:
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TrustNordisk will introduce the Norwegian horror film Cold Prey 2 [+see also:
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Both films are also screening at the parallel AFI FEST in Los Angeles in the World Cinema Section, along with the Norwegian Oscar entry O'Horten [+see also:
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film profile], sold by The Match Factory.
The AFI FEST (the only FIAPF accredited film festival in the US) runs until November 9 and has two Nordic films in its Best Film competition, comprised of 12 international features: Olaf de Fleur’s Higher Force (Iceland) and Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary [+see also:
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interview: Erik Hemmendorff
interview: Ruben Östlund
film profile] (Sweden).
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