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Hanne Palmquist -- --
Hanne Palmquist Steps Down As CEO Of Nordisk Film & TV Fond

PRESS RELEASE: Oslo 14.05.2013 - Palmquist (pictured) will join SVT as Commissioning Editor for Drama November 1, 2013. more…

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Nordisk Film & TV Fond Seek New Chief Executive Officer

Position will start October 1, 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline for application is August 1, 2013. more…

Helen Ahlsson --
Tre Vänner, Motlys United In Crime

Two of Scandinavia’s most established production outfits, Sweden’s mainstream-oriented Tre Vänner and the Norwegian quality arthouse specialist Motlys, have agreed to 50/50 produce a film adaptation of Norwegian crime author Karin Fossum’s best-seller The Indian Bride (Elskede Poona). more…

Manuel Chiche --
Only God Forgives - French Distributor's Insight Into Refn

Just five days before the world premiere of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgive in Cannes and the film’s French launch on over 300 screens, French distributor Manuel Chiche, (pictured) Managing Director of the genre and auteur-driven label Wild Side (co-owned by Wild Bunch) tells us about his close relationship with ‘Jang’ that started with Bronson. more…

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Markus Selin Makes New Antti Jokinen Movie

Purge producer Markus Selin (pictured - Solar Films) and director Antti Jokinen are collaborating again on the thriller The Criminal about the Russian mafia. The Finnish mogul will be looking for co-producers in Cannes for the €4 million project. more…

Extras

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SFI Celebrates 50 Years With Music
Deadline May 31st For Application To New Copenhagen Film Fund CEO
Legendary Ben Johnson Appears In Finnish Patriotic Man

Trailer of the week

Michael Kohlhaas - clip
Mads Mikkelsen’s period drama screens this Friday in competition in Cannes and has been snapped up early in the festival by US distributor Music Box for North America. In this French film set in the 16th century, Mikkelsen (who speaks in French) plays a horse trader who takes arms against a feudal lord who has wronged him. Click here to see clip.

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