Series Mania Winner ‘Blackport’ Adds Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize

Icelandic smash hit drama sequence “Blackport” received on Wednesday the 2022 Nordisk Movie & TV Prize, Scandinavia’s high plaudit for drama sequence writing.

The award was introduced on web site on the finish of an intense first day of convention panels on the Göteborg Competition’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient, with two of the sequence’ three writers, Gísli Örn Garðarsson and Mikael Torfason on stage to gather the Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award, carrying a €20,000 ($22,600) money prize. They had been accompanied by producer Nina Dögg Filippusdóttir. The prize additionally went to fellow screenwriter Björn Hlynur Haraldsson.

Clinching the NFTF Prize, “Blackport” has scored a outstanding triple, profitable the Sequence Mania Award on the Berlinale Sequence Market’s 2018 Co-Professional Sequence competitors after an impressed on-stage pitch by Garðarsson and occurring to take the highest prize at Sequence Mania final September.

“Blackport” fought off stiff competitors from Oscar-nominated Danish director Lone Sherfig’s “The Shift,” Canneseries’ Norwegian 2021 ensemble forged winner “Countrymen,” penned by Izer Aliu and Anne Bjørnstad, and Auli Mantila’s unique Finnish meals fraud thriller “Transport” and Tove Eriksen Hillblom’s “Suburbia,” a resonant put-down of Swedish middle-class consumerist hell.

Directed by Garðarsson, Haraldsson and María Reyndal and offered by France’s About Premium Content material, “Blackport” weighs in as a household saga sluiced by interval tragic farce taking a deep-dive into Iceland over 1983-91.

It kicks off in 1983 as fishing quotas are launched into Iceland. Harpa, a village council secretary, builds an area fishing empire in a shocking western fjord however at an ever bigger human

value as the last decade performs out. Successfully privatising Iceland’s greatest trade, the quotas “modified the historical past of Iceland ceaselessly,” Garðarsson informed Selection.

Shot on location and based mostly on true info – many occasions are simply too unusual to not be true – “Blackport” oozes two of the calling playing cards of latest drama sequence: a closeness to native audiences  – pinpointed by NRK’s outgoing head of drama Ivar Kohn at TV Drama Imaginative and prescient as a technique pubcasters can push again on the dominance of streamers – and, for worldwide audiences, a way of genuine native element and a lid-lifting on just a little recognized interval in European historical past.

“We imagine most viewers across the globe need to take a peek right into a microcosmic world that they don’t know beforehand,” mentioned Haraldsson. “We’re intrigued by a terrifying accident in a nuclear energy plant within the Soviet Union in 1986 as a lot as we’re wanting to comply with a highschool chemistry trainer in Albuquerque, New Mexico grow to be a crystal meth drug lord.”

“Blackport” is produced by Iceland’s Vesturport and backed by its state-owned community RÚV and Arte France.

A Vesturport founder and actor-writer-stage director profitable the European Theatre Award, Berlin Taking pictures Star Garðarsson took a lead position in Netflix’s “Ragnarok.” Haraldsson’s 2015 writer-director characteristic debut “Homecoming” is being re-made within the U.Okay. Additionally an actor, producer and co-founder of Vesturport, he received fame for performances in “Fortitude” and “Trapped” and starred in Iceland’s Oscar shortlisted “Lamb.”

Novelist and playwright Torfason wrote “Valhalla Murders” for Netflix.