Göteborg’s Nordic Series Script Award Nominations Announced

Thomas Vinterberg‘s “Households Like Ours,” “Strain Level” from the author of “Black Crab” and Erik Poppe’s “Quisling” rely amongst nominations for a high-powered Göteborg Nordic Sequence Script Award, the largest plaudit for TV screenwriting in Scandinavia.

Changing the Göteborg Pageant’s Nordisk Movie & TV Fond Prize, the Script Award nominations additionally absorb feminist porn comedy “Cash Shot,” a Canneseries winner, and “The Faculty of Housewives,” co-written and directed by Iceland’s Arnór Pálmi Arnarson, who helmed “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.

With regard to inventive ambition, ranging broadly in type from “Households’” near-future survival drama-thriller to “Strain Level’s” nervy and compelling true-events recreation and “Quisling’s” boldly-told interval drama, these three sequence discover modern-times horror. 

“Households” charts an apocalypse that tears Denmark’s higher center class aside throughout Europe and plunges them right into a cruel and typically violent new world; “Strain Level” plumbs neo-Nazism, “Quisling” nails the mindset of a delusional autocrat. 

Far rosier, “Cash Shot” and “Faculty” additionally faucet a contemporary Zeitgeist, exhibiting ladies taking bigger management of their lives, thanks partly to feminine solidarity. 

In trade phrases, the 5 sequence mark current choices from lots of Europe’s powerhouse producers, broadcasters and distributors, led by Vinterberg’s “Households Like Ours,” produced by heavyweights Zentropa Enterprises, Studiocanal, Canal+ and TV 2 Danmark.

The Nordic Sequence Script Award nominees nonetheless compete for a considerable money award of €17,000 ($17,700), financed by the Nordisk Movie & TV Fond, which prizes the foremost author(s) of a Nordic drama sequence.

In a single change, candidates will need to have premiered their sequence within the earlier 12 months: the previous prize additionally served to anticipate a number of the huge upcoming hits from Scandinavia.

In an additional new improvement, The Nordic Sequence Awards will embrace an honorable point out, the Artistic Braveness Award, which celebrates the producer and commissioner of a sequence that boldly pushes inventive boundaries and embraces innovation. Candidates are submitted by streamers and broadcasters.

Nordic Sequence Awards winners will be introduced at a ceremony on the night of Jan. 28 at Göteborg’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient.

“The author award’s new identify has extra weight in worldwide C.V.’s, because it clearly defines that the prize goes to the perfect Nordic sequence script. One other welcome reform is that each one sequence that premiered in 2024 are eligible. 

In these economically robust occasions, commissioning dangers enjoying secure. With the Artistic Braveness Award, we wish to make clear a commissioner-producer collaboration that has resulted in an exceptionally courageous and modern sequence. I’m now joyful to see that we now have nice candidates in lots of genres in each classes,” mentioned Liselott Forsman, CEO at Nordisk Movie & TV Fond.

“The choice demonstrates the variety of tales rising from the area and indicators each the power of the current and a promising future for Nordic drama sequence,” added Cia Edström, head of Göteborg’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient.

The jury for the Nordic Sequence Script Award takes in Norwegian actor-screenwriter Henriette Steenstrup;  Joanna Szymańska, producer-CEO at ShipsBoy, Poland and Linus Fremin, a TV Critic and inventive director at Sweden’s Make Your Mark.

TV Drama Imaginative and prescient runs Jan. 28-29, the forty eighth Göteborg Movie Pageant from Jan. 24 via Feb. 2. Nordic Sequence Script Award nominations in additional element:

“Households Like Ours,” (“Familier som vores”)

Nominated writers: Thomas Vinterberg, Bo hr. Hansen

Denmark, 7×50′ 

Broadcaster: TV2 Denmark 

Produced by: Zentropa Entertainments 

Producers: Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing 

Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg 

Gross sales: World: Studiocanal, besides Benelux, which is dealt with by TrustNordisk 

Premiere: Oct. 20, 2024 

The primary sequence from Vinterberg, a 2021 Oscar winner (“One other Spherical”) and 1998 Dogma 95 co-founder (“The Celebration”), the high-end, seven-part “Households” weighs in with a believable impossibility: as Denmark begins to sink beneath the ocean, its authorities orders its whole evacuation. Because it broadens its compass to France, Romania, Poland, the U.Okay. and lastly Finland, it holds its give attention to Vinterberg verities – household, love – but in addition emerges as an higher center class horror story the place skilled preeminence means nothing and the well-healed prolonged household at its core falls foul to as soon as unbelievable potentialities: Human trafficking, brutal vigilante gangs and even homicide. 

“Cash Shot,” (“Toinen tuleminen”) 

Finland, 8×25′ 

Nominated author: Jemina Jokisalo 

Broadcaster: Elisa Viihde 

Produced by: Simply Republic  

Producers: Jemina Jokisalo, Samuli Norhomaa and Johanna Tarvainen 

Directed by: Teemu Niukkanen 

Gross sales: Federation Studios and Nordisk Movie 

Premiere: Could 2, 2024 

Simply probably the most irreverent of the 5 entries and a brief type sequence Scholar Award winner at 2024’s Canneseries: Sari, an over-the-hill porn actress, or so she’s instructed, determined to search out work, groups with a movie college reject to provide erotic movies with and for a feminine gaze. “It’s fairly daring and totally different, particularly for a Finnish present, and I’m actually joyful [broadcaster] Elisa Viihde had the braveness to fee it. I all the time pursue tales I completely love, with characters we will really feel for,” Jokisalo (“Savela,” “Makkari”) has instructed Selection. “It’s tremendous colourful. It’s undoubtedly not one other Nordic Noir!”

“Strain Level,” (“Smärtpunkten”Sweden, 3×60’ 

Nominated author: Pelle Rådström 

Storyline: Wilhelm Behrman and Niklas Rockström 

Broadcaster: SVT 

Produced by: Kärnfilm and Artwork & Bob 

Producer: Martina Stöhr 

Directed by: Sanna Lenken 

Gross sales: ReInvent Worldwide Gross sales 

Premiere: Apr. 19, 2024 

A dense, tense, true-event recreation of rehearsals for the play, “7:3,” created by famend playwright Lars Norén and producer Isa Stenberg, through which two neo-Nazi inmates expound on stage their real-life neo-Nazi convictions and counsel what lead to them: Alienation, childhood damage. For Norén, this was a possibility for a “distinctive story,” for Stenberg and a few jail authorities a probability for rehabilitation, for one of many prisoners, the chance to plan a financial institution theft, which shook Swedish society to the core. Written by Rådström (“Black Crab”) from an overview by Berhman (“Caliphate,” “Earlier than We Die”) and Rockström (“Caliphate,” “Wallander”).

Quisling 

Norway, 5×45-50′ 

Nominated writers: Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen 

Broadcaster: TV2 Norway 

Produced by: Paradox Rettigheter AS 

Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae 

Directed by: Erik Poppe 

Gross sales: REInvent 

Seen at Haugesund and Toronto as a 147-minute function, “Quisling: The Remaining Days” now competes for the Nordic Sequence Script Award as a weighty five-episode sequence model which, in line with director Poppe, tells “a completely totally different story,” with rather more about Maria Quisling and priest Peder Olsen’s spouse. But the sequence’ core advantage appears to be like to be the identical because the function: “a penetrating psychological examine of a delusional authoritarian,” as Selection shelp in its assessment, right here Vidkund Quisling, Hitler’s puppet Norwegian president. A few of that should come from the sequence screenwriters, Anna Bach-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen, who labored with Poppe on “Utøya, Jul. 22” and “The Emigrants,”

“The Faculty of Housewives,” (Húsó)

Iceland, 6×30′

Nominated writers: Arnór Pálmi Arnarson, Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir

Broadcaster: RÚV

Produced by: Glassriver

Producer: Arnbjörg Hafliðadóttir

Directed by: Arnór Pálmi Arnarson

Premiere: Jan. 1, 2024

A rehab common since a teen, Helka is distributed to a Faculty of Housewives as her final probability for a court docket to grant her custody of her toddler daughter, now in foster care. Her coronary heart’s in the precise place, which wins her unlikely allies. However one factor’s studying to weave, crochet or cook dinner pineapple haddock and one other’s for Helka to withstand her addictions and inside demons. A feel-good dramedy – and eventually tearjerker –  yoking the skills as writers of Arnór Palmi Arnarson, additionally director of “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, multi-prized actor-scribe Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir (“Sisterhood,” “Agnes Pleasure”), and Icelandic manufacturing powerhouse Glassriver (“Black Sands,” “As Lengthy As We Dwell”).