Rome-based sales outfit Intramovies has picked up international rights to “My Uncle Jens,” the directorial debut of Norwegian helmer of Kurdish origin Brwa Vahabpour, credited for the hit series “Countrymen.”
Renée Hansen Mlodyszewski, associate producer on “The Worst Person in the World,” is producing for True Content Production, the Oslo branch of Scandi group True Content Entertainment, headed by Yellow Bird founder Ole Søndberg.
Anda Ionescu of Bucharest-based Tangaj Production serves as co-producer.
Crew members include cinematographer Jørgen Klüver (“Nudes”) production designer Kristian Lahn Vestby (“Nach”) and seasoned Romanian editor Cătălin Cristuțiu (“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”) who collaborated with the Norwegian Brynjar Lien Aune.
Vahabpour first caught festival attention with his 2020 short film “Silence”, selected for the Palm Spring International ShortFest. He went on to direct two episodes of the Norwegian award-winning series “Countrymen”.
Known earlier as “Europa”, the feature about family ties and cultural identity stars Peiman Azizpour...
Renée Hansen Mlodyszewski, associate producer on “The Worst Person in the World,” is producing for True Content Production, the Oslo branch of Scandi group True Content Entertainment, headed by Yellow Bird founder Ole Søndberg.
Anda Ionescu of Bucharest-based Tangaj Production serves as co-producer.
Crew members include cinematographer Jørgen Klüver (“Nudes”) production designer Kristian Lahn Vestby (“Nach”) and seasoned Romanian editor Cătălin Cristuțiu (“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”) who collaborated with the Norwegian Brynjar Lien Aune.
Vahabpour first caught festival attention with his 2020 short film “Silence”, selected for the Palm Spring International ShortFest. He went on to direct two episodes of the Norwegian award-winning series “Countrymen”.
Known earlier as “Europa”, the feature about family ties and cultural identity stars Peiman Azizpour...
- 5/14/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
GÖTEBORG — Indie distributor Intramovies has signed on to handle international sales for the upcoming Finnish feature “Light Light Light.”
Directed by Inari Niemi, and produced by Oskari Huttu at Lucy Loves Drama, the film is an adaptation of the 2011 book “Valoa Valoa Valoa” by Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen. Writer-actress Juuli Niemi (“Summertime”) wrote the screenplay for the film.
Currently in post-production, the story is set in the spring of 1986, when there is an explosion in Chernobyl. A girl called Mimi arrives in a small village in western Finland. She immediately fills 15-year-old Mariia’s life with light. 20-years-later, Mariia returns home to take care of her sick mother, and memories of that meaningful summer start rising to the surface.
Said Niemi: “When I first read the novel ‘Light Light Light,’ which our film is based on, the thing that I found the most extraordinary was the way the author Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen portrayed the two main characters,...
Directed by Inari Niemi, and produced by Oskari Huttu at Lucy Loves Drama, the film is an adaptation of the 2011 book “Valoa Valoa Valoa” by Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen. Writer-actress Juuli Niemi (“Summertime”) wrote the screenplay for the film.
Currently in post-production, the story is set in the spring of 1986, when there is an explosion in Chernobyl. A girl called Mimi arrives in a small village in western Finland. She immediately fills 15-year-old Mariia’s life with light. 20-years-later, Mariia returns home to take care of her sick mother, and memories of that meaningful summer start rising to the surface.
Said Niemi: “When I first read the novel ‘Light Light Light,’ which our film is based on, the thing that I found the most extraordinary was the way the author Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen portrayed the two main characters,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
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