#Nordicfilm

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Searching for Sugar Man: Final thoughts

Even though the Nordic countries are yet to produce global box-office hits that would rival the US-UK made blockbusters, the achievements...

Searching for Sugar Man: Approaches to producing

The Olsberg SPI report Building sustainable film businesses identify a few key factors that contribute to the success of a film business....

Searching for Sugar Man: International Competition

Original language dramas are in several markets automatically labelled as ‘art house’ films (Ilievski, 2018). Petri Kemppinen, the CEO of...

Searching for Sugar Man: Europudding and issues of authenticity

The internationalisation of European cinema has also attracted negative associations, with critics branding certain multi-national films...

Searching for Sugar Man: Changes to available finance

The increase of foreign language, internationally oriented productions applying state subsidies has led to the local film institutions to...

Searching for Sugar Man: Validating the use of English language

The most common motive among the producers for the use of the English language in Nordic films has been the story; through either a...

Searching for Sugar Man: Current production landscape

Since 1960’s breakdown of the classical film culture in the Nordic region, the local production landscape has seen a significant...

Blog Series: Searching for Sugar Man – how, why and to what effect are Nordic producers turning to t

In this series of posts, I'll be looking at producing English language films in the Nordic region, both in terms of the economic benefits...

Case Study: Borg vs McEnroe

The following series of blog posts presents four case studies of Nordic produced films that aim for the international, English language...

Case Study: Backstabbing for Beginners

The following series of blog posts presents four case studies of Nordic produced films that aim for the international, English language...