[Reader-list] SELF-RIGHTEOUS NORWAY, DIFFICULT YOUTH

[Adreesh Katyal]

SELF-RIGHTEOUS NORWAY, DIFFICULT YOUTH
The Norwegian Film Fund allocates app ?270,000 for two television
series, Beathe Hofseth-Siri Natvik's Mellemtiden (Interval) and Erling
Borgen Det uskyldige Norge (Innocent Norway)

Bullying, teenage pregnancy, crime, growing up at an institution and
being a refugee are some of the themes in Norwegian directors Beathe
Hofseth and Siri Natvik's Mellemtiden (Interval), a television series
produced by Petter Vennerød for Norway's TV2, which was last week
(Thursday, 17 February) supported by the Norwegian Film Fond.

The fund chipped in ?180,000 for the app ?495,000 budget, and
contributed another ?90,000 for Erling Borgen's television series, Det
uskyldige Norge (Innocent Norway), produced by Borgen for Norwegian
pubcaster NRK.

Credited for, among others, the documentaries Ketsjup (Ketchup), Press
(Pressure) and Barnemakt (Child Power), Hofseth and Natvik will follow
six Norwegian youngsters who are about to make important choices in
their lives. "They show that you can change, and decide for yourself,"
said the fund's short film consultant, Peter Bø,

Det uskyldige Norge takes a closer look at Norway in three episodes,
Others Are Corrupt, Norway as a War Nation, and Slaving for
Norwegians, and will "probably shake Norwegian self-rightousness," per
short and documentary film consultant Sirin Eide. Borgen deals with
Norwegian connections to countries violating international regulations
and human rights.

SOURCE: http://www.nordicfilmnews.net/Newsletter/NL-050224.html#Anchor-SELF-47857