The Nordisk Movie & TV Fond has teamed with the Göteborg Movie Competition to launch the Nordic Sequence Awards, a brand new award to honor Nordic drama collection.
The Nordic Sequence Award replaces the Nordisk Movie & TV Fond Prize, which has been awarded yearly at Göteborg’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient since 2017. The award will honor the perfect screenwriting in Nordic drama.
Supported by Nordisk Movie & TV Fond, the award features a 200,000 NOK money prize and might be given to the principle author(s) of a Nordic drama collection that premiered within the earlier yr.
The 2 organizations have additionally launched the Artistic Braveness Award to honor the producer and commissioner behind what has been described as “a collection that pushes artistic boundaries and embraces daring, revolutionary approaches.”
Each awards might be introduced yearly at Göteborg’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient. The decision for nominations opens at this time. The deadline to submit a collection is November 15. To be eligible, a collection should be Nordic, with the principle manufacturing firms based mostly within the Nordic nations. Solely the primary season of a collection is eligible. The present will need to have debuted within the earlier yr.
Discussing the brand new award, Cia Edström, Head of TV Drama Imaginative and prescient, stated: ”With the launch of the Nordic Sequence Awards, we intention to raise the popularity of each the screenwriters who craft these compelling tales and the forces behind the scenes who take dangers and push the business ahead.”
Earlier winners of the Nordisk Movie & TV Fond Prize embrace the political drama Energy Play and Norwegian writer-director Kenneth Karlstad’s gritty coming-of-age collection Children in Crime.
Liselott Forsman, CEO of Nordisk Movie & TV Fond, added: “The Fund continues to have a good time creators of wonderful Nordic drama collection via our renewed script award in good collaboration with TV Drama Imaginative and prescient. In economically robust occasions there’s a danger of enjoying secure when commissioning collection. Our new shared initiative, the Artistic Braveness Award, will shine a lightweight on manufacturing firms and broadcasters/streamers whose courageous efforts and fruitful collaboration have enabled an particularly recent Nordic high quality collection.”
