One of many Nordic area’s greatest 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”, as a result of world premiere in the primary competitors, and the brief kind Swedish dramedy entry “Painkiller”, which initially bowed on the Göteborg Movie Pageant.
“Final yr we had the Norwegian political drama “Energy Play” which received greatest sequence, and the Swedish romantic dramedy “Out of Contact” within the brief kind part. Canneseries is a superb 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” take care of mom/daughter relationships.
The Danish drama thriller “Darkish Horse,” ordered by TV2, explores a teen lady’s try and liberate herself from her controlling mom to deadly penalties. Within the title roles are Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (“Borgen”, “Pitch Excellent 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 world wide. We instantly cherished the premise, the solid and noticed the worldwide potential in it,” mentioned Aurø.
In a completely totally different style, “Painkiller” options Balkan strong-willed mom and cleansing woman Djana and her daughter, the recent artist Andrea. Each attempt to make life higher for each other however hold failing. “It’s a unusual dramedy by certainly one of Sweden’s most gifted auteur writer-directors, Gabriela Pichler” Aurø mentioned in regards to the SVT sequence.
Unveiled solely to Selection, two recent pickups will likely be teased to international patrons at MipTV market in Cannes.
The six-part sequence “L/over,” commissioned by MTV/C Extra, is the newest pattern of Finnish occasion dramas combining “very excessive manufacturing worth, prime expertise, and a compelling storytelling,” Aurø mentioned.
The challenge 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 challenge, 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 brief kind 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 manner.
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 college journey. Was he the one who put a Barbie doll within the ass of a classmate?? To clear his identify, Marius and two of his buddies 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 developments, Aurø says: “The market hasn’t totally 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 power. 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.
