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Raised Fist - Friends and Traitors official video |
  A new music video with Raised Fist was shot in Luleå August 14-15.
Produced by: Cascade Creative Media
Creative director: Tomi Tauriainen
Director; Axel Söderlund
Producer/Art Director: Daniel Kask
Technical Director: Johan Hannu
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Man VS Wild with Bear Grylls and Will Ferrell |
  In the beginning of April, Will Ferrell joined Bear Grylls for an adventure in Swedish Lapland.
They spent 48 hours performing tasks such as rappelling down frozen waterfalls, tandem-abseiling of a helicopter and stayed warm overnight in subzero temperatures. During this time they also need to find food in the forest, improvise snow shoes and drink their own urine.
The episode will be released the 5th of June at Discovery Channel in the US.
Photo: Discovery Channel
Production Company: Diverse Production Ltd
Production Service in Sweden: Poppis and Fjällguiden
Location: Kiruna region
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Slitage (Seeds of the Fall) |
"Seeds of the Fall" in competition at Sundance 2010.
Patrik Eklund's new film "Seeds of the Fall"
won the Canal Plus Grand Prix for short in Cannes.
Director: Patrik Eklund
Director of Photography: David Grehn
Producer: Mathias Fjellström
Production Company: Direktörn & Fabrikörn
Co-producers: Filmpool Nord, Film i Västerbotten
Location in Lapland/Norrbotten: Luleå and our studio
More Info: Variety, Festival Cannes,
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2009 Guldbagge Award Winners |
During the evening of the 12th of January two films shared the most important awards, ”Everlasting Moments/Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick” and ”Let the right One in/Låt den rätte komma in". Filmpool Nord have co-produced both of the films and Swedish Lapland Film Commission have been assisting with the film locations.
EVERLASTING MOMENTS / MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK (5 Guldbaggar)
- Best Picture - Producent: Thomas Stenderup
- Best Actress in a Leading Role - Maria Heiskanen for her role as Maria Larsson
- Best Actor in a Leading Role - Mikael Persbrandt for his role as Sigfrid Larsson
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Jesper Christensen for his role as Sebastian Pedersen
- Best Achievement - Composer Matti Bye, for congenial contribution to historical accuracy in the film
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN / LÅT DEN RÄTTE KOMMA IN (5 Guldbaggar)
- Best Director - Tomas Alfredson
- Best Screenplay - John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Best Cinematography - Hoyte van Hoytema
- Best Achievement - Production Designer, Eva Norén, with artistic width from the alleys of LasseMaja to the room of horror in Let the Right One In/Låt den rätte komma in
- Best Achievement - Per Sundström, Jonas Jansson and Patrik Strömmedahl, for nightmarishly great sound in the film
More info about the Guldbagge Award can be found at the Swedish Film Institute www.sfi.se
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I stället för Abrakadabra (Instead of Abracadabra) |
 Oscar Nominated
Academy Awards 2010.
Instead of Abracadabra was competing in the Short Programs at the Sundance Film Festival 15-25 January 2009.
 Director: Patrik Eklund
Director of Photography: David Grehn
Producer: Mathias Fjellström
Production Company: Direktörn & Fabrikörn
Co-producers: Filmpool Nord, Film i Västerbotten
Location in Lapland/Norrbotten: Piteå
More info: Short of the Week
Photo: David Grehn
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 Premiére: SVT2, sunday the 31st of August 2008
"Jenny, God and the silence" is a new documentary made by the Director/Producer Ingela Lekfalk.
Jenny is studying the last term to become a priest. She is young, woman and married to Linda. Nobody in her class is positive to partnership blessings.
Director/Producer: Ingela Lekfalk
Photographers: Jan-Olof Granqvist, Martina Iverus, Dan Jåma, Malin Korkesalo
Editor: Britta Nordström
Editor/Dramaturgist: Kersti Grundiz
Sound: Mikael Brodin
Music arr: Lars Paulin
Co-Producer: Filmpool Nord (Sirel Peensaar-Miell) and SVT
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Öppet Hus på Höök-inspelningen |
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Produktionen av den andra säsongen av den svenska polisserien Höök pågår för fullt.
Lördagen den 12 juli öppnar produktionsteamet dörrarna till studio Kronan för att visa upp studiobygget. Det blir en guidad visning av studiobygget och regissören Daniel Di Grado berättar om arbetet. Inbjudan
Photo: Johan Paulin
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 Movits released a new music video "Äppelknyckarjazz". It was shot in a studio in Skellefteå and the postproduction was made in Luleå. Please have a look at the result on Movits website or YouTube (video) and YouTube (video behind the scenes).
Director: Axel Söderlund
Director of Photography: David Grehn
Producer: Johan Hannu
VFX: Tomi Taurianen (Cascade)
Art Directing: MOVITS
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 In the middle of April some parts of a German TV-production was shot in the Kiruna region.
It is a Christmas comedy with the two famous german actors
Mr Bastian Pastewka and Mr Christoph Maria Herbst.
Director: Tobi Baumann
Production Company: Brainpool
Production Service in Sweden: Poppis and Fjällguiden
Location: Kiruna region
Photo by René Zuber
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"Låt den rätte komma in" (Let the Right One In)
Tribeca Film Festival 2008: Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature
Gothenburg International Film Festival 2008: First prize in The Nordic Competition and The Kodak Nordic Vision Award to the Cinematographer
Hoyte van Hoytema
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Producer: John Nordling, Carl Molinder
Location: Luleå and Boden
"Ping Pong Kingen" (The King of Pingpong)
Sundance Film Festival 2008: First prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section and the World Cinema Cinematography Award to
Askild Vik Edvardsen
Director: Jens Jonsson
Producer: Jan Blomgren
Location: Gällivare and Luleå
 "Istället för Abrakadabra" (Instead of Abracadabra)
Gothenburg International Film Festival 2008: Startsladden Award for the best short film and the audience price
Director: Patrik Eklund
Producer: Mathias Fjellström
Location: Piteå
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In a beautiful winter landscape, Denize Karabuda together with a crew of 22 people shot her new short fiction film "Pokerface" in Glommersträsk.
 Director: Denize Karabuda
Producer: René Axö
Production Company: Strix Television
Co-producer: Sirel Peensaar-Miell, Filmpool Nord
Cast: Allan Svensson, Zinat Pirzades
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 RTL 2 does a Lapland travel log in cooperation with, among others, BMW. Little Karl in Hamburg has a very long list for Santa Claus, and a good friend offers to deliver it on time for Christmas... Thus begins the story that was filmed in Arvidsjaur.
Heiko Müller, a marketer who works for Hotell Laponia, succeeded in getting the film team to choose Arvidsjaur instead of Rovaniemi as the location for the shoot.
Photo: Kent Norberg
“We love it here in Arvidsjaur, and we’re planning to come back for a visit on our own time,” says a member of the five-man film crew.
Film locations have included central Arvidsjaur, Tomtens Hem at Granberget and Laponia Sameland. The programme, an estimated 20 minutes, will be aired in Germany for an audience of a million viewers on 23 Dec., at 18.00 hrs, on RTL2.
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 Sweet Films from Tromsö was shooting in Luleå at the beginning of November. It is a short story about a Bakeri and the tagline is "Our Passion, your portion".
A-Lite Produktion was the co-producer from our region together with Filmpool Nord.
Director: Terje A. Nymark
Director of Photography: Daniel Voldheim
Producer: Joachim Lyng
Co-Producer: Axel Söderlund, Susanne Karlsson
Cast:
Bjørn Sundquist, Lena B Eriksson, Andreas Wilson
English title: The Little Spider Bakery
Synopsis:
Olsen, the proprietor of a small french bakery, relies on his wifes passion in the backroom to sell his popular french bread. Cynically measuring the success he has with his business through cash alone, Olsen’s shop runs into trouble when the wife’s assistant tires of the conditions he is working under. His wife’s vanity drives her to prove that she can handle the assistant, but she ends up killing him instead. The couple quickly go about searching for a new assitant in order to get that all important sensuality into the baking again, like they’ve done so many times before.
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Olle Nyman Music Video "Bastards" |
 The music video with Olle Nyman's new song "Bastards" was directed by Johan Hannu and produced by Axel Söderlund from A-Lite in Luleå.
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 A-Lite production house in Luleå produced the new music video for up and coming artist ELMO from Jokkmokk/Stockholm and his song ”Unbreakable”. The video was shot on location in Jokkmokk and the new album will be released in October. This is the video to ”Unbreakable”
Download at www.a-lite.se
Production company: A-Lite Produktion
Director: Johan Hannu
Camera: Axel Söderlund
Producer: Axel Söderlund
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 During 15 days this summer, Mats Arehn shot his story "Persona Non Grata" in Luleå and its surroundings. It's a psychological thriller where we meet Anna who is now trying to deal with her past. One day she meets Sture who is retired and living a peaceful life.
Directed and written by: Mats Arehn
Producer: Thomas Samuelsson
Production company: 2000 Bilder AB
Co-Producer: Filmpool Nord, Sveriges Television, Svenska Filminstitutet
Distributor: Fokets Hus och Parker
Cast: Janne Carlsson and Alexandra Rapaport
Premiére the 14th of December 2007
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Pop Shuvit "Set You On Fire" |
 A Swedish team from Luleå produced the new music video for the Hip Hop Rock band "Pop Shuvit" from Malaysia. It was shot in Luleå in the middle of May and will be released the 2nd of June at Hitz TV.
Production company: A-Lite Produktion
Director: Johan Hannu
Director of Photography: Axel Söderlund
Producer: Susanne Karlsson
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 The Swedish Lapland Film Commission attended the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
Between all the meetings with producers and other interesting people we also had some time to see different events.
Pauliina Hujanen from the North Finland Film Commission and Berit Tilly from Swedish Lapland Film Commission, here seen standing in front of the Palais des Festivals.
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We are very proud that the French/US production "Babylon A.D." chose to shoot in our region. During April 2007, the second unit shot all the snow action scenes at Riksgränsen (Kiruna). Release date in Sweden the 5th of September 2008
 Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
Second Unit Director: Bob Brown
Production Companies: Légende Films, MNP Enterprise, Studio Canal, 20th Century Fox, OKKO Production
Producers: Alain Goldman, Mathieu Kassovitz
Co-Producer: Selwyn Roberts
Production Supervisor: Marc Vadé
Executive Producer: Gary Ungar
Distributor: 20th Century Fox, Studio Canal, Mars Distribution
Executive Producer, Sweden: Eric Cadrieu
Swedish Unit Production Company: Eiffeline Productions
Unit Producer: Eiffel Mattsson
Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Mélanie Thierry , Jamel Debbouze, Lambert Wilson, Ski-doo stunts: Robert Thacker and Chris Burandt ( Slednecks)
More Info: www.imdb.com
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 Shooting takes place in Jämtland (Sweden) and in North Trøndelag (Norway) but many of the crew members are from the Swedish Lapland/Norrbotten area.
The screenplay is based on an original script by the Swedish author Kerstin Ekman.
(Peter Stormare and Kerstin Ekman)
Directed by: Daniel Alfredson
Production company: Migma Film AB, Davaj Film AB, Lumifilm OY, Esperanza Film AS
Co-producer: Filmpool Nord
Cast: Peter Stormare, Rolf Degerlund, Robin Ludberg, Marie Delleskog, Gustav Kling,
Inga Sarri ...
More info: www.imdb.com, www.svt.se
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 The film is based on the novel by Åsa Larsson and was shot in the Kiruna area in April and May 2007.
Directed by: Leif Lindblom
Production company: Sandrew Metronome
Co-Producer: Filmpool Nord
Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Mikael Persbrandt, Krister Henriksson, Jakob Eklund, Suzanne Reuter...
More info: www.solstorm.se and www.imdb.com
Première: 2 November 2007
Photo: Emelie Lindgren
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"Maria Larssons Eviga Ögonblick" (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) |
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 Have been selected to compete in the Toronto Film Festival 2008.
Premiere: 26 September 2008
Director: Jan Troell
Production company: Maria Film
Co-Producer: Filmpool Nord, Film i Skåne
Cast: Maria Heiskanen, Jesper Christiansen, Mikael Persbrand, Amanda Ooms, Maria Lundqvist, Antti Reini, Ann Petrén.....
The film company needed excellent winter locations, which they found in Luleå. They also shot scenes in our Kronan studio.
Photo: Lena Lahti
In "Maria Larsson’s Everlasting Moments", director Jan Troell gets to combine his greatest passions: pictures and the early 1900s. Maria Heiskanen ("Il Capitano") plays a young working woman and mother of seven children who wins a camera in a lottery and starts to lead a double life, unbeknownst to her husband (Mikael Persbrandt), a hard-working, hard-drinking ladies’ man. The Danish actor Jesper Christensen (who recently thrilled audiences as the villain in the James Bond film "Casino Royale") plays a photographer, Sebastian "Piff Paff Puff" Pedersen, who teaches Mrs. Larsson to see the world through the camera lens.
(Oresunds Film Commission)
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"Ping Pong Kingen" (The King of pingpong) |
 "Ping Pong Kingen" was shot mainly in Gällivare this winter and partly in Luleå and Stockholm.
The film will be in the competition at the Sundance Film Festival during January 2008.
Directed by: Jens Jonsson
Production Company: BOB Film
Co-Producer: Filmpool Nord
More info: www.cineuropa.org
Photo: Emelie Lindgren
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"Låt den rätte komma in" (Let the right one in) |
 This Swedish feature (based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist) was shot in Luleå this winter. The première of "Låt den rätte komma in" is scheduled for February 2008.
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Production company: EFTI
Co-Producer: Filmpool Nord
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Short feature - "Icicle melt" |
 For a week in the beginning of April, the Scottish production company Poetry in Motion was shooting a short feature in co-production with the local company White Rabbit Production and Filmpool Nord.
Shooting took place in the village of Töre, fifty kilometres north of Luleå, where they found the locations together with SLFC. Virgin snow, icicles and the Aurora Borealis during the night shoots made the week complete.
The joint crew from Scotland and Norrbotten worked extremely well together and many of us agreed that this was an experience of a lifetime.
It starred Greta Scacchi from England and Jacob Nordenson from Sweden.
The Swedish première was at the Umeå Film festival 14-20 September 2006.
Nomination: "Turner classic shorts 2006"
(Photos by Kamelia Pebdani)
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Commercial for Norrmejerier |
 In the beginning of June the production company MFL Film shot a commercial for their client Norrmejerier dairies.
It was shot in the municipality of Boden where they found wonderful landscapes.
The director Johan Skog and DOP Per M Ekberg ready for a trip by helicopter. (publ. July 2006, Photo by Berit Tilly)
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TV Drama "Kommissarie Höök" |
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 Bob Film, SVT and Filmpool Nord are co-producing one of the biggest TV productions in the Norrbotten region. The production is called "Kommissarie Höök" which is a police series of twelve one-hour episodes. Production started in March 2006 and will be completed in October 2006. Locations from all over the region will be shown and some of the interior scenes are being shot in our Studio Kronan. (publ.July 2006, photo by Mikael Rasmussen)
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Production company from India visits Norrbotten/Lapland |
In the beginning of June 2006, we had the honour to show some beautiful locations to Mr Vinod Kumar Singh, Producer/Director from Sigma Films of India. Sigma Films is most interested to find new exotic locations for its films, and these Mr Singh found in Norrbotten/Lapland. The company visited Luleå, Boden, Arvidsjaur and Älvsbyn.(Publ July 2006, Photo by Berit Tilly)
 
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Director/Writer: Jonas Selberg Augustsén