One of many Nordic area’s largest suppliers of premium sequence, Copenhagen-based REinvent Worldwide Gross sales, will make a splash at this week’s Canneseries pageant and MipTV market.
For the second consecutive yr, the gross sales, financing and packaging banner has two titles in competitors: the Danish drama thriller “Darkish Horse”, attributable to world premiere in the primary competitors, and the quick type Swedish dramedy entry “Painkiller”, which initially bowed on the Göteborg Movie Pageant.
“Final yr we had the Norwegian political drama “Energy Play” which gained greatest sequence, and the Swedish romantic dramedy “Out of Contact” within the quick type part. Canneseries is a good platform to get the hype going in your sequence,” commented Helene Aurø, REinvent gross sales and advertising director.
Turning on this yr’s competitors candidates, Aurø factors out that each “Darkish Horse” and “Painkiller” cope with mom/daughter relationships.
The Danish drama thriller “Darkish Horse,” ordered by TV2, explores an adolescent lady’s try to liberate herself from her controlling mom to deadly penalties. Within the title roles are Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (“Borgen”, “Pitch Good 2”) and rising expertise Josephine Højbjerg.
“It’s a multi-layered story with at its core, the story of a self-centred mom and her abusive relationship together with her daughter. However there’s additionally an attention-grabbing cultural conflict angle as the 2 girls come again to rural Denmark after having travelled around the globe. We instantly cherished the premise, the solid and noticed the worldwide potential in it,” mentioned Aurø.
In a completely completely different style, “Painkiller” options Balkan strong-willed mom and cleansing woman Djana and her daughter, the new artist Andrea. Each attempt to make life higher for each other however hold failing. “It’s a unusual dramedy by considered one of Sweden’s most gifted auteur writer-directors, Gabriela Pichler” Aurø mentioned in regards to the SVT sequence.
Unveiled completely to Selection, two recent pickups might be teased to world consumers at MipTV market in Cannes.
The six-part sequence “L/over,” commissioned by MTV/C Extra, is the most recent pattern of Finnish occasion dramas combining “very excessive manufacturing worth, high expertise, and a compelling storytelling,” Aurø mentioned.
The mission is the brainchild of Marika Makaroff, producer and founding father of Finnish/UK powerhouse Gutsy Animations, credited for the Emmy-award nominated animated sequence “Moominvalley.”
For her first live-action fiction mission, Makaroff has teamed up with co-creators Nina Honkanen and U.Ok. author/actor Frog Stone (“Bucket”). The latter additionally serves as head-writer, sharing the writers’ room with Bafta-nominated Kevin Rundle (“Hollyoaks”) and Sophie Swithinbank. Aleksi Salmenperä (“White Wall”, “Unhealthy Household”) is idea director.
With a intelligent title type enjoying on ‘over’ and ‘L’ for love, the drama thriller explores how and why abusive management, generally mistaken for love, might be the best hazard in a relationship, and what if ‘the one’ is the one who might destroy you?’, reads the logline.
Star actor Krista Kosonen (“Beforeigners”, “Blade Runner 2049”) performs single mom Roosa who falls for the intriguing novelist Juha (“Deadwind”, “Bullets”), however quickly cracks seem in what looks as if the love story of the century. “The boyfriend is so creepy that you just really feel your physique hair sticking up”, says Aurø who will introduce a teaser trailer at Cannes.
The second new pickup is the Norwegian younger grownup quick type sequence “Hybris” from creators/writing duo Karianne Lund (“Occupied”, “State of Happiness”) and Hege Gaarder Nordlie (“Hjerteslag”). Mixing crime and humour, the present addresses gossip and rumours in an revolutionary method.
Rising younger expertise Sjur Vatne Brean (“Energy Play”, “Rod Knock”) performs the favored 19-year-old Marius who’s being accused of sexual assault. However he has no recollection of what occurred throughout that faculty journey. Was he the one who put a Barbie doll within the ass of a classmate?? To clear his title, Marius and two of his associates begin to seek for the reality.
Commissioned by NRK, the present first aired on the Norwegian pubcaster in September and can subsequent air on DR in Denmark and Yle in Finland.
“It’s a smaller TV present, however there’s a marketplace for high quality YA content material and we attempt to have one thing for everyone,” Aurø mentioned.
The gross sales veteran additionally highlights two accomplished and hotly anticipated Finnish sequence: the suspense-driven catastrophe drama “Seconds” from Fireplace Monkey prodco, co-produced by Finnish pubcaster Yle and Germany’s NDR; and psycho-thriller “The Woman Who Disappeared,” produced by ReelMedia for MTV/C Extra.
Commenting on market traits, Aurø says: “The market hasn’t absolutely recovered post-COVID and contemplating the difficult micro-economics, streamers and broadcasters alike are nonetheless fine-tuning their content material methods and cautiously shopping for. That mentioned, the market has picked up since Berlin and there’s a renewed vitality. We’re looking for extra windowing options, new methods to create visibility for our content material in order that no person loses cash,” she mentioned.
