The Göteborg Movie Pageant’s series-focused, business sidebar TV Drama Vision returned this week with two days of talks and panels centered on collection manufacturing in Europe and the Nordic area.
This system featured over 60 on-stage audio system and was dominated by the presence of Netflix, which celebrated its tenth 12 months within the Nordic area late final 12 months.
“We had a great year,” Jenny Stjernströmer Björk, VP of Nordic Content material at Netflix, mentioned when requested concerning the streamer’s 2022 Nordic efforts on stage on the Grand Theater in Göteborg.
Björk went on to record what she described as among the streamer’s most profitable Nordic content material, together with the Swedish collection Snabba Money. The skilled exec additionally cited the Spotify origins collection The Playlist, and Roar Uthaug’s folklore thriller Troll, which Björk mentioned turned the most well-liked non-English language movie on Netflix in lower than two weeks of its launch.
In the best way of recent initiatives, Björk offered first-look footage from the streamer’s upcoming Danish crime thriller The Nurse. Primarily based on a guide of the identical identify by Kristian Corfixen, the collection follows the true story of a nurse who was convicted of the tried manslaughter of 4 sufferers at a hospital in Denmark. The Copenhagen-based SAM Productions produced the collection, and Kasper Barfoed directs.
A primary-look clip from the present that includes main stars Josephine Park (Child Fever) and Fanny Louise Bernth garnered uncharacteristic cheers from the Göteborg crowd.
This enthusiasm continued into the presentation of Dance Brothers, the primary Finnish collection set to debut globally on Netflix. The younger grownup drama collection is a co-production between Netflix and Finland’s nationwide broadcaster YLE. Max Malka of Banijay’s Endemol Shine Finland created and produced the present. The collection follows two brothers, Roni (Roderick Kabanga) and Sakari (Samuel Kujala), as they wrestle to make a dwelling as skilled dancers. To assist finance their dance goals, they resolve to start out their very own membership, which offers earnings, housing, and coaching area. Their distinctive membership and spectacular dance routines rapidly carry them fame. Quickly inventive ambitions and private relationships collide, testing Roni and Sakari’s shut bond.
Dance Brothers was a sizzling subject on the bottom in Gothenburg due to creator Malka’s enthusiastic presentation in addition to the present’s distinctive plans for a two-part launch. Netflix has the premiere window for the collection, so Dance Brothers will launch on the streamer first earlier than receiving a second native premiere on YLE in Finland. Netflix has but to announce a agency launch date, however Deadline hears the present is being prepped for a world launch within the spring.
Different notable audio system at TV Drama Imaginative and prescient included Julie Andem, creator of the juggernaut teen drama collection Skam, who led a masterclass concerning the position of a showrunner in European collection manufacturing.
“To this day, I don’t really know what a showrunner does or is,” she mentioned when quizzed about her position as showrunner and creator of Skam.
“The most important thing is to have the strongest vision of the show, making sure everyone is working towards that. That is the most important rule for a showrunner.”
Skam, which debuted on Norwegian Broadcaster NRK in 2015, was an enormous hit amongst younger and grownup audiences in Scandinavia, rising its weekly viewers from 24K to 1.262M (Norway has a complete inhabitants of round 5M) and outperformed many TV and streaming primetime hits within the territory.
The present was remade in a number of international locations, together with Holland, France, and Spain. Andem was not concerned in any of the remakes excluding the US model, which she joined as showrunner and director alongside Phillip J. Bartell.
“Going to another country to remake your own show didn’t seem like the best idea, but it allowed me to open up to working in another market,” Andem mentioned of her choice to board the US remake.
Andem continued to say that the most important distinction she present in producing Skam within the US in comparison with Norway was the dimensions of the manufacturing.
“On the first season of the Norwegian show, we were ten people creating the show. Five people on set at the most. In Austin, we were 70, 80 people, so it’s a completely different way of producing the same show,” she mentioned.
When requested if European showrunners might study something from their American counterparts, Andem rapidly joked: “Get more money.”
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