Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Maria Sødahl’s Hope and Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Man Who Sold His Skin has been selected by the Oscar nomination committees in Denmark, Norway and Tunisia. All three films has been co-produced by Film i Väst and the first two has been shot in Region Västra Götaland. https://youtu.be/40X5EX6Us7c Another Round was [...]
Katakolo, Nov 14, 2020: Ruben Östlund’s latest film Triangle Of Sadness, an epic satire set against the world of high fashion and the super-rich, finished shooting today in Greece, marking the end of a complicated shoot that started before the pandemic hit Europe on Feb 4 in Trollhättan, Sweden. The film, Östlund’s first in the English language, [...]
Film i Väst, Scandinavia’s leading regional film fund, is one of the busiest production hubs in Europe during the pandemic. The most recent addition to the production slate is TUESDAY CLUB, a comedy starring Peter Stormare, one of the busiest Scandinavian actors (Prison Break, American Gods, Get Shorty, John Wick: Chapter 2, Minority Report, Armageddon, [...]
An updated edition of The Pandemic and Cinema is now published. Tomas Eskilsson, Head of Strategy, examines the impacts of Covid19/Corona on the gloal film and tv-drama sector. Tomas Eskilsson will hold a series of lectures and discussions, among them EFARN (European Film Agencies Research Network) and European Audiovisual Laboratory, 19th of October and Cine-Regio, [...]
Film i Väst, Scandinavia’s leading regional film fund, is one of the busiest production hubs in Europe during the pandemic, with 18 films and TV-series shooting in west Sweden 2020. Film i Väst, the public film fund for the western region of Sweden, is fully up and running during the pandemic, with as many productions [...]
SF Studios’ and Film i Väst's major new feature film The Emigrants will start shooting this week on location in Sweden for the next seven weeks. The large-scale epic drama is a new feature adaptation of Vilhelm Moberg’s beloved story of the Swedes who left wretchedness and misery behind for a new life on the [...]
Watch the Nostradamus session from Marché du Film Online Making Choices: How to Build for a Better New Normal Last week, the Göteborg Film Festival’s Nostradamus project returned to Cannes NEXT at the Marché du Film Online in a dynamic session on the near future of the industry in the light of the COVID-19 crisis. [...]
Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure and Magnus von Horn’s Sweat have been selected for Cannes Film Festival “Cannes 2020 Label”. All films shot or did parts of post production in Region Västra Götaland in Sweden and were co-produced by Film i Väst. - We congratulate the three talented directors and their teams. We [...]
Film i Väst, Scandinavia’s leading film fund, has appointed seasoned production executive Kristina Börjeson as new Head of Production. Kristina Börjeson joins Film i Väst from TV4/C More, where she is currently serving as Head of Drama Production. She will start her position at Film i Väst on January 1, 2021. - The film and [...]
Whether you call it a sunny “golden age of content” or a gloomier “global production deluge,” the unprecedented investment in content production and licensing is creating a wealth of new opportunities – and also new challenges – across the value chain of the film and TV industries. The panel “Drowning In Numbers,” held Feb 23 [...]
