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Director<br />
Pernilla August<br />
Producer<br />
Helena Danielsson<br />
Writer<br />
Pernilla August,<br />
Lolita Ray<br />
Based on<br />
the novel of the same name<br />
by Susanna Alakoski<br />
Language<br />
Swedish and Finnish<br />
Genre<br />
Drama<br />
Format<br />
4K digital (Red)<br />
Running time<br />
90 mins<br />
It’s only when you accept where you<br />
came from that you can choose to go<br />
somewhere else.<br />
Target audience<br />
25 and up<br />
Budget<br />
€ 1,900,000<br />
Cast<br />
tbc<br />
Writer/director Pernilla August<br />
Actress Pernilla August’s talent proved it<br />
could transfer from stage to screen when<br />
she made an indelible impression in Ingmar<br />
Bergman’s directorial swansong Fanny and<br />
Alexander in 1982.<br />
Since then, she has won numerous<br />
awards including Best Actress at the<br />
Cannes <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> for her performance in<br />
The Best Intentions, directed by Bille August<br />
and written by Bergman.<br />
She continued to work with Bergman<br />
and Liv Ullman in Private Confessions in<br />
1996 and, in 1999, became Shmi Skywalker<br />
in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom<br />
Menace, returning in 2002 for Episode II -<br />
Attack of the Clones, both directed by<br />
George Lucas.<br />
In parallel with her acting, August also<br />
directs for the stage. Svinalängorna is her<br />
film directing debut.<br />
Writer Lolita Ray<br />
Born in 1957, Lolita Ray is a published poet,<br />
singer-songwriter and performing artist. She<br />
has released CDs with her bands; toured in<br />
the USA, UK, Finland and Sweden; and is<br />
now working on her solo album. She is also<br />
the mother of five grown-up children and a<br />
globetrotter looking for the adventures and<br />
challenges of life.<br />
She is soon to set off alone on a twoand-a-half<br />
month walk for the environment,<br />
‘2 Million Steps for the Climate’, through<br />
Sweden, Denmark and Germany.<br />
<strong>Production</strong> company Hepp <strong>Film</strong><br />
Hepp <strong>Film</strong> was established in 2003 by producer<br />
Helena Danielsson, a 15-year veteran<br />
of the Scandinavian/European film<br />
industry. Hepp <strong>Film</strong>’s productions have travelled<br />
successfully on the festival circuit,<br />
receiving many awards, and have sold well<br />
internationally.<br />
Danielsson is a voting member of the<br />
European <strong>Film</strong> Academy, a member of<br />
ACE (Ateliérs du Cinema Européen) and<br />
also a board member of the Swedish Producers<br />
Association.<br />
Hepp <strong>Film</strong> is one of the companies<br />
granted slate funding by the Swedish <strong>Film</strong><br />
Institute for 2007-8. The company recently<br />
entered into a distribution agreement with<br />
Scandinavian major Nordisk <strong>Film</strong>.<br />
Current status<br />
Development supported by the Swedish<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Institute (consultant Peter Gustafsson)<br />
and regional film fund, <strong>Film</strong> i Skåne<br />
Aims at the NPP<br />
To meet possible co-producers, funders<br />
and sales agents.<br />
Contact<br />
Helena Danielsson<br />
Hepp <strong>Film</strong> AB<br />
Kastellgatan 13<br />
211 48 Malmö<br />
Sweden<br />
Tel: (46) 40 98 44 62<br />
Fax: (46) 40 98 44 64<br />
Mobile: (46) 733 42 81 84<br />
helena@heppfilm.se<br />
NPP 2008 • 29
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