The Göteborg Movie Pageant and Nordisk Movie & TV Fond have introduced the 5 inaugural Nordic Collection Script Award nominees.
The nominated collection are Households Like Ours (Denmark, nominated writers Thomas Vinterberg and Bo Hr. Hansen), Cash Shot (Finland, nominated author Jemina Jokisalo), Stress Level (Sweden, nominated author Pelle Rådström), Quisling (Norway, nominated writers Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen), The Faculty of Housewives (Iceland, nominated writers Arnór Pálmi Arnarson and Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir).
The award was launched final yr and comes with a NOK 200,000 (€17,000) money prize. The jury for the Nordic Collection Script Award is Henriette Steenstrup, Actor and Screenwriter, Norway; Joanna Szymańska, Producer and CEO at SHIPsBOY, Poland; Linus Fremin, TV Critic and Artistic Director at Make Your Mark, Sweden.
This yr the pageant will even launch the Artistic Braveness Award to honor the producer and commissioner of a collection that boldly pushes inventive boundaries and embraces innovation. The Artistic Braveness recipient is chosen from a number of admissions by the Nordic streamers and broadcasters.
“In these economically powerful occasions, commissioning dangers taking part in secure. With the Artistic Braveness Award, we wish to make clear a commissioner-producer collaboration that has resulted in an exceptionally courageous and revolutionary collection,” Liselott Forsman, CEO at Nordisk Movie & TV Fond, mentioned of the award. “I’m now blissful to see that we’ve nice candidates in lots of genres in each classes.”
The winners of the Nordic Collection Awards will probably be introduced at an award ceremony on the night of January 28, 2025. The 2024 winners of the Nordisk Movie & TV Fond Prize, the previous title of the award, have been Johan Fasting, Silje Storstein, and Kristin Grue for the Norwegian drama Energy Play.
Cia Edström, Head of TV Drama Imaginative and prescient at Göteborg Movie Pageant, added: “We’re delighted to as soon as once more have the chance to be a part of celebrating excellent writers of Nordic drama and the continuing innovation within the area. The choice demonstrates the range of tales rising from the area and indicators each the power of the current and a promising future for Nordic drama collection.”
