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,
The Nordisk Film & TV Fond announces the recipients of its latest round of funding
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Local Titles Cushion Nordic Box Office Plunge in 2020
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Due to COVID-19 cinema lockdowns or restrictions, box office in the Nordic region plummeted in 2020 year-on-year by 64% in Sweden, 57.6% in Iceland, 57% in Norway, 54% in Finland, and 47% in Denmark.
The dearth of new U.S .tentpoles, combined with strong domestic titles such as “Another Round,” allowed homegrown movies to punch all-time record market shares in Denmark (50.4%), Finland (41.1%) and Norway (35.6%).
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The Oslo-based cinema association Film & Kino has published the figures for the countryâs 2020 box office. Despite a significant drop in cinemagoing (-57.1% admissions), caused by the shutdown of the cinemas between March and May and the newly enforced restrictions throughout the year, domestic titles secured an historic 35.6% market share, beating the previous record figure from 2018 (25.1%).
Overall, the 2020 national box office totalled 4.8 million admissions (as against 11.3 million in 2019) and made a profit of 557,743,079 Norwegian crowns (approximately â¬53,427,000). In detail, the highest-grossing title of the year was