Searching for Sugar Man: Final thoughts
Even though the Nordic countries are yet to produce global box-office hits that would rival the US-UK made blockbusters, the achievements...
Searching for Sugar Man: Cross-Nordic distribution and lessons from the success of Nordic TV drama
Petri Kemppinen, the CEO of Nordisk Film & TV Fond describes that cross-Nordic distribution has seen a slight increase in the recent...
Searching for Sugar Man: Approaches to producing
The Olsberg SPI report Building sustainable film businesses identify a few key factors that contribute to the success of a film business....
Searching for Sugar Man: International Competition
Original language dramas are in several markets automatically labelled as ‘art house’ films (Ilievski, 2018). Petri Kemppinen, the CEO of...
Searching for Sugar Man: Europudding and issues of authenticity
The internationalisation of European cinema has also attracted negative associations, with critics branding certain multi-national films...
Searching for Sugar Man: Changes to available finance
The increase of foreign language, internationally oriented productions applying state subsidies has led to the local film institutions to...
Searching for Sugar Man: Validating the use of English language
The most common motive among the producers for the use of the English language in Nordic films has been the story; through either a...
Searching for Sugar Man: Current production landscape
Since 1960’s breakdown of the classical film culture in the Nordic region, the local production landscape has seen a significant...
Blog Series: Searching for Sugar Man – how, why and to what effect are Nordic producers turning to t
In this series of posts, I'll be looking at producing English language films in the Nordic region, both in terms of the economic benefits...
Case Study: Borg vs McEnroe
The following series of blog posts presents four case studies of Nordic produced films that aim for the international, English language...