The Nordisk Film & TV Fond announces the recipients of its latest round of funding
Director Thomas Seeberg Torjussen, whose series
Dome 16 has received €245,000 in funding (© NRK)
This week, the Nordisk Film & TV Fond announced the recipients of its latest round of funding. On this occasion, the agency has earmarked over 3.2 million Norwegian crowns (approximately €314,000) in production and distribution bursaries.
The grant of the biggest magnitude (2.5 million Norwegian crowns/€245,000) went to
Thomas Seeberg Torjussen’s ten-part TV series Dome 16, produced by
Eric Vogel and
Ingunn Sundelin for Oslo-based outfit Tordenfilm. The project, penned by the director himself and commissioned by NRK Super, is an adventure-driven love story set 120 years from now. It follows a 14-year-old boy called Anton, who lives in a dome, free from pollution and radiation, large enough to house an entire city. Life inside the dome is for the privileged, with life expectancy at 160,
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