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20.09.2006
Lien and Nielsen in position for Nordic and European Film Awards
Norwegian directors Jens Lien’s (Den brysomme mannen) and Christopher Nielsen’s CGI-animated Free Jimmy (Slipp Jimmy fri) both nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize – and on the shortlist of the European Film Awards Publisert: 20.09.06 | Sist endret: 24.09.06
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Norwegian directors Jens Lien’s The Bothersome Man and Christopher Nielsen’s CGI-animated Free Jimmy will compete both for the Nordic Council Film Prize, which will be awarded on Wednesday, 1 November, and probably for the European Film Awards on Saturday, 2 December.
A Norwegian jury has nominated the two features for the largest film prize in the Nordic countries - DKK 350,000 (app €47,000) to be shared equally among the winning film’s director – which will be dished out for the third time. Members of the jury include film critic Øyvor Dalan Vik, of the Dagens Næringsliv; film and culture journalist Anne Hoff, of the NRK. Dep member: Ola Lund Renolen, of the Municipality of Trondheim.
Ten films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – nine features, one documentary – have been nominated for the Nordic Council honour, which has previously been given to Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s The Man without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä) in 2003 and Danish director Per Fly’s Manslaughter (Drabet) in 2005. The winner will be disclosed on Wednesday, 10 October, before the 1 November awards ceremony in Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens.
The Bothersome Man and Free Jimmy were also among the 49 candidates on the shortlist for this year’s European Film Awards, which the European Film Academy published on Monday, 11 September). The academy’s 1,700 members will vote for their favourites before Saturday, 4 November, when the final nominations are published. The winners will receive their statuettes during the 2 December awards ceremony, which takes place in Warsaw, Poland.
THE BOTHERSOME MAN: Produced by Jørgen Storm Rosenberg for Tordenfilm, The Bothersome Man is based on Per Schreiner’s radio play, about a 40-year-old man who arrives at a strange city with no memory how he got there. Gradually Andreas (Trond Fausa Aurvåg) realises he just entered his own after-life. Lien’s second feature was world-premièred at Cannes, where it received the ACID Award. Intl sales: Bavaria Film International (Germany).
FREE JIMMY: Eight years in the making, Free Jimmy – from Torden Studio’s Lars Andreas Hellebust and Sarah Radclyffe, of UK’s SR Productions – is Norway’s first CGI-animated production, about a drug-addicted elephant who escapes a Russian touring circus pursued by petty criminals, the Lappish mafia and animal rights activists. Nielsen’s NOK 100 million feature debut is described as ”a heady mix of sex, drugs and sawdust.” Intl sales: The Works (UK).
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