The Swedish film award, Guldbaggen Award, was held Monday 15 January. Film i Väst’s co-productions won in total seven awards. Mika Gustafson’s Venice premiered Paradise is Burning won Best Picture, Lukas Moodyssons Toronto premiered Together 99 won Best Screenplay and Maria Fredriksson’s Tribeca winner The Gullspång Miracle won Best Documentary. Winning co-productions Karen Fabritius Gram and Pierre [...]
Director and script writer Svitlana Lishchynska’s documentary A Bit of a Stranger has been selected to Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. In her documentary she explores her own familys four generations of women and their relation to the USSR era and the impact of the russification. The film's director, Svitlana, was born in [...]
Understanding AI – The New Future for the Screen Industries Understanding the fast-moving challenge of AI and the exponential changes generative models are already having on the Film Value Chain are critical for all practitioners in the screen entertainment industries. AI is now (yes, already!) ubiquitous and is impacting on underlying rights and IP, copyright; [...]
The nominations for the Guldbagge Awards for the film year 2023 have been presented. In total Film i Väst co-productions received 36 nominations. Both Hammarskjöld and Opponent were presented with seven nominations, The Gullspång Miracle and Together 99 received four nominations each. The Guldbagge Awards Gala is arranged by the Swedish Film Institute in collaboration [...]
At the Europan Film Awards gala in Berlin, Mads Mikkelsen was awarded Best Actor for his role in Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land. The film also took home the awards for Best Cinematography, Rasmus Videbæk, and Costume Design, Kicki Ilander. Produced by Zentropa Entertainments in co-production with Zentropa Berlin, Zentropa Swedan and Film i Väst. [...]
During the film festival in Venice, Tomas Eskilsson from Film i Väst Analysis introduced the second part of the unique, pan-European study Public Film Funding at a Crossroads: All that is solid melts into air. It is a research project in three parts that explores and discusses the future purpose and relevance of film and audiovisual [...]
The Oscar race 2024 is running. So far four countries have submitted Film i Väst’s co-productions: The Netherlands, Turkey, Chile and Iceland. All three prenominated films, who will be one, from Sweden are Film i Väst’s co-productions. Here are the submissions, so far: The Netherlands: Ena Sendijarević’ Sweet Dreams, premiered in Locarno and screened at [...]
Mika Gustafson’s Paradise is Burning won The Orizzonti Award for Best Director at the Venice International Film Festival. The film is produced by Nima Yousefi at HOBAB in co-production with Film i Väst and with support from the Swedish Film Institute. https://youtu.be/px4cXciL66c?si=1TGo8dDprbfrP2pv Paradise is Burning is about sisters Laura, Mira and Steffi, who live alone [...]
Together with the Audience Design Lab at International Screen Institute Film i Väst are pleased to announce a new partnership. Film i Väst will support the participation of a local team in attending the Lab this October, where they will participate in a workshop with their own Audience Designer, working on their feature project over the [...]
During the film festival in Venice Film i Väst Analysis introduces av unique, pan-European study, All that is solid melts into air – Public Film Funding at a Crossroads II. It is presented at a seminar as a part of Venice Production Bridge by Tomas Eskilsson, head of Film i Väst Analysis. Public Film [...]
