News
Swedish film news which we believe to be of interest for foreign filmmakers are presented here. For a broader coverage of film- and tv-production news in Sweden please also check the English pages of the Swedish Film Institute web site: www.sfi.se.
Ny kraft i Sweden Film Commission
6 Nov, 2007 | Han ska sälja Sverige
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Bratek now runs the Sweden Film Commission.
6 Apr, 2006 | A new governing body of Sweden Film Commission is now in action.
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Cissi Elwin - new CEO of the Swedish Film Institute
28 Mar, 2006 | The board of the Swedish Film Institute has chosen Cissi Elwin as the new managing director of the organisation.
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Nominations for best Swedish films 2005
10 Jan, 2006 | A jury of 32 members has voted in a secret ballot for the following nominations for the 2005 Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's national film awards.
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New film commissioners at the Swedish Film Institute
17 Nov, 2005 | The Swedish Film Institute has appointed three new film commissioners who are due to take up their posts on 1 January 2006, coinciding with the inception of the new Film Agreement.
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Åse Kleveland to step down as CEO of the Swedish Film Institute
8 Nov, 2005 | Åse Kleveland has announced her intention to step down from her post as CEO of the Swedish Film Institute with effect from May 2006.
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Curry and herring in Cannes
18 Maj, 2005 | Swedens´s minister of culture, Me Leif Pagrotsky, participated in an Indan - Swedish party at the Scandinavian Terrace at Cannes Film Festival in May. The party attracted more than 200 guests.
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Swedish 2004 cinema statistics
3 Maj, 2005 | 2004 became another good year for Swedish film. Most popular film of the year was As it is in Heaven (Så som i himmelen). With 1,158,415 admissions (7 % of all cinema visits), the Swedish film As it is in Heaven was the biggest box office hit of the year. The last time a Swedish film topped the list was in 2000, when Together (Tillsammans) registered 849,134 admissions.
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Spotlight on New Faces of Swedish Cinema and Spotlight on Lukas Moodysson
31 Mar, 2005 | The past ten years have witnessed an impressive and welcome renaissance of several European national cinemas. In Sweden a new generation of filmmakers has emerged ready, willing, and able to face the continuing threats of Hollywood product as well as the new outlets for entertainment cutting into cinema audiences.
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Another good year
18 Mar, 2005 | The Swedish Film Institute has compiled its film and cinema statistics for 2004. Most popular film of the year - Oscar nominee As it is in Heaven (Så som i himmelen).
With 1,158,415 admissions (7 % of all cinema visits), the Swedish film As it is in Heaven by Kay Pollak - Oscar nominee in the category Best foreign language film - was the biggest box office hit of the year.
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Amazing Race
11 Mar, 2005 | US channel CBS produced last year through World Race Productions parts of their successful TV series Amazing Race in Sweden. The satisfaction was complete - please find below a statement from the producer.
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Oscar nomination for As It Is in Heaven
26 Jan, 2005 | Kay Pollak's As It Is in Heaven has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best foreign language film category. This is the second consecutive year a Swedish film is nominated, last year Mikael Håfström's Evil was nominated in the same category.
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The 2004 Guldbagge Award winners
25 Jan, 2005 | On January 24 the annual Swedish films awards were presented at the Chinateatern in Stockholm. The feature Dalecarlians from Memfis Film was awarded a "Guldbagge" for best Swedish picture of the year.
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Nominations for 2004 Swedish awards
5 Jan, 2005 | A jury of 32 members has voted in a secret ballot for the nominations to the 2004 Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's national film awards.
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Frida Hallgren - Shooting Star 2005
4 Jan, 2005 |
The Swedish Film Institute has chosen Frida Hallgren as Sweden's Shooting Star for the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, due to be held in February next year.
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Swedish film seminar in Bombay
19 Nov, 2004 | A Swedish trade delegation visited India at the end of October. Step one on the tour that took the delegation also to Bangalore and New Dehli was the film capital of Bombay.
Mr Amit Khanna from The Film & Television Producers Guild of India opened the seminar together with Sweden´s ambassador, Mrs Inga Eriksson-Fogh.
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Åse Kleveland elected president of the European Digital Cinema Forum
5 Okt, 2004 | Åse Kleveland, Director General of the Swedish Film Institute, has recently been elected president of the European Digital Cinema Forum, the leading network of institutions, companies and trade associations working to promote digital cinema across Europe.
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Håfström is Sweden's latest export to Hollywood
5 Okt, 2004 | Director Mikael Håfström this week starts working with Miramax feature Derailed, a thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen.
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Major Indian production in Stockholm
16 Sep, 2004 | The well-known Indian producer Romesh Sharma chose Stockholm as a location for exotic scenery in his feature "Dil Jo Bhi Kahe" Follow Your Heart starring Mr B, Amitabh Bachan.
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MANDERLAY - number two in Von Triers USA trilogy in Trollhättan
5 Mar, 2004 | Lars von Trier has now rounded up the cast for Manderlay , the second film in his American trilogy after Dogville, with a contingent of US stars.
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Swedish Sonet Films produce US feature
23 Feb, 2004 | Swedish production company Sonet Films are producing the US feature RANCID, directed by Jack Ersgard and starring Matthew Settle (Band of Brothers) and Fay Masterson (Eyes Wide Shut).
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