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UPCOMING FINNISH TV DRAMA 2018-2019
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Finnish Weird Drama series Dragonslayer666................................................................................................3 Bordertown - Season 2.....................................................................................4 Hooked - Seasons 1 & 2....................................................................................4 Secret Enemies....................................................................................................5 Welcome to Texas...............................................................................................5 Shadow Lines.......................................................................................................6 Bullets.....................................................................................................................7 Arctic Circle...........................................................................................................7 All the Sins............................................................................................................8 Sherlock North....................................................................................................8
FILMING IN FINLAND 25% CASH REBATE
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Dragonslayer666
Yle Sales brings a wide selection of Finnish programs available for tv-channels and other media services around the world. Our International Sales catalogue holds more than 200 titles of high quality programs, whether it’ s documentaries, children’s programming, lifestyle or Finnish tv-drama.
A humorous series about a 19-year old gamer DragonSlayer666, who’s mum destroys his computer. To be a professional player and to realize his dream, he’s forced to step out of his room, face the real world and learn the meaning of friendship and team work. The series is based on a popular and award-winning novel series, written by Aleksi Delikouras. The first season of the series became an instant phenomenon in Finland and won the Golden Venla (Finnish Emmy) for the best youth series.
Yle’s programming is known for its high quality and wide range: unique dramas, documentaries and current affair reports, feature films and web series, not to forget children’s programs. Yle Sales’ broad customer base includes clients from the Middle-East to Latin-America. Programs are presented to international buyers at the main tv-markets around the world.
ORIGINAL TITLE Nörtti: Dragonslayer666 GENRE Youth drama / comedy EPISODES Season 1: 8 x 12min / 4 x 24min
Yle’s programs are thought-provoking, inspire debate and arouse passion and emotions.
Seasons 2-3 in post production
PRODUCTION COMPANY Dionysos Films BROADCASTER Yle RELEASE 10/2017 SALES Yle Sales / Wild bunch CONTACT Max Malka / Dionysos Films
The sales catalogue and trailers are available at vimeo.com/ylesales
max.malka@dionysosfilms.fi Jukka Kaivola & Maria Kivinen / Yle Sales jukka.kaivola@yle.fi, maria.kivinen@yle.fi
Jukka Kaivola Head of Sales jukka.kaivola@yle.fi tel. +358 400 446 881
Maria Kivinen Sales Executive maria.kivinen@yle.fi tel. +358 40 5442404
Tuija Snellman Business Development Manager tuija.snellman@yle.fi tel. +358 40 8307022
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Bordertown Hooked Season 2
Seasons 1 & 2
Bordertown is a unique take on the Nordic Noir genre. The first season is sold worldwide to 180 territories. The first season introduced Chief Inspector Kari Sorjonen, who with his recovering wife and teenage daughter move to a small town near the Russian border to enjoy a more peaceful life. But the idyllic life they had hoped for is far from reality. In the anticipated second season Sorjonen returns to use his brilliant mind and exceptional deductive skills to investigate five new murder cases… and this time Kari and his nearest must confront a new enemy: the past. The past is never dead.
Have you ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn’t? Krista (Matleena Kuusniemi) is a former drug addict, Oskari (Tommi Eronen) is a drug squad criminal investigator. These two have a common history, a son, and an underlaying addiction to each other. Hooked is a drama series about addictions – in relationships, in society, at work. The questions rising form Oskari’s and Krista’s intertwining fates are moral and challenge the audience as well. Can you be cured of an addiction? Can you make up for abandoning your child? Can you keep a mother away from her child? And above all: can people change? ORIGINAL TITLE Koukussa GENRE Drama EPISODES Season 1: 10 x 50min, Season 2: 8 x 50min PRODUCTION COMPANY Moskito Television BROADCASTER Yle RELEASE Season 2: 2018 SALES Yle Sales PRESENTED BY Roope Lehtinen, Executive Producer CONTACT Jukka Kaivola & Maria Kivinen / Yle Sales
ORIGINAL TITLE Sorjonen GENRE Crime EPISODES 10 x 55min PRODUCTION COMPANY Fisher King Ltd, Federation
Entertainment
ORIGINAL BROADCASTER: Yle, Finland RELEASE October 7th, 2018 SALES Federation Entertainment PRESENTED BY Matti Halonen, Executive Producer CONTACT www.fisherking.fi / www.fedent.com
jukka.kaivola@yle.fi, maria.kivinen@yle.fi
Roope Lehtinen Executive Producer roope.lehtinen@moskito.fi
Matti Halonen Executive Producer matti.halonen@fisherking.fi
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Secret Enemies
Welcome to Texas
Critically acclaimed and awarded Welcome to Texas is an intense drama about a married couple Tuula and Upi who lead a smuggling operation in a Finnish town close to the Russian border. They are forced into the business of human trafficking, while trying to protect their family.
A Russian oligarch’s spying on the Finnish government and power battle with Kremlin push Finland to the brink of war with Russia. It is up to Finnish Secret Police detective Arto Ratamo and NBI’s Elina Linden to expose the oligarch’s ruthless manoeuvres before Russia invades Finland.
Season two happens two years after the first season. Tuula and Upi both get their own chance to break out of the world of crime, but this time, their children pull them back in, deeper than ever.
Secret Enemies is a fast-paced thriller that is both scarily realistic and incredible, depicting a very possible chain of events. It is loaded with major themes and fascinating details echoing the current state of world affairs. It is based on the characters and world created by Taavi Soininvaara in his popular ‘Ratamo’ book series.
ORIGINAL TITLE Aallonmurtaja EPISODES 2 seasons, 10 x 42min / season PRODUCTION COMPANY Warner Bros. International
ORIGINAL TITLE Ratamo EPISODES 8 x 42min PRODUCTION COMPANY Moskito Television BROADCASTER C More / MTV RELEASE 2018 SALES Federation Entertainment PRESENTED BY Roope Lehtinen, Executive Producer CONTACT www.moskito.fi, www.fedent.com
Television Production Finland
BROADCASTER C More / MTV RELEASE Season 2: spring 2019 SALES ZDF Enterprises PRESENTED BY Lotta Backlund, Head of Development CONTACT Warner Bros: www.wbitvp.com/finland
ZDFE: zdf-enterprises.de/en
Roope Lehtinen Executive Producer roope.lehtinen@moskito.fi
Lotta Backlund, Head of Development lotta.backlund@warnerbros.com
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Shadow Lines Elisa Viihde is the leading digital entertainment service in Finland. The service provides a wide array of options, from original series and the largest selection of Finnish movies to the latest Hollywood films, as well as an extensive range of TV shows and exclusive sports packages. Elisa Viihde also offers subscription video-on-demand services, rental movies, and an extensive range of payTV packages. Over 300,000 households enjoy Elisa Viihde entertainment services.
In the 1950’s, the hottest spot of the Cold War is not Washington, DC or Moscow, but Helsinki, where the KGB and the CIA vie for control of Finland, a small Nordic country wedged between East and West powers. As tensions rise between the global powerhouses, The Fist, a secret service Finnish task force, struggles to keep their homeland independent and their team united. As the group’s newest member begins to discover the truth of her past and the Finnish presidential election rapidly approaches, the personal and professional stakes grow ever higher. The Fist soon finds itself the guardians of Finland’s future.
Since 2014, Elisa Viihde has released 11 original series including Sipoon herttua, Jättekiva, Kolmistaan, Downshifters and Konttori (The Office Finland). In autumn 2018, the service will premier its first two premium drama series, Bullets and Arctic Circle, which will shortly be followed by the releases of the crime drama All the Sins and spy thriller Shadow Lines in 2019.
ORIGINAL TITLE Nyrkki GENRE Spy thriller EPISODES 10 x 45min PRODUCTION COMPANY Zodiak Finland BROADCASTER Elisa Viihde RELEASE Autumn 2019 on Elisa Viihde SALES APC - About Premium Content PRESENTED BY Alan Sim / Executive Producer CONTACT Teea Hyytiä / Executive producer, Zodiak Finland
teea.hyytia@zodiakfinland.fi APC - About Premium Content: contact@aboutpremiumcontent.com
Alan Sim Executive Producer Elisa Viihde alan@epictv.com
Laura Kuulasmaa Executive Producer Elisa Viihde laura.kuulasmaa@elisa.fi
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Bullets
Arctic Circle
An ex-terrorist (played by Game of Throne’s star Sibel Kekilli) who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari (played by Krista Kosonen of Blade Runner 2049), has to befriend this exterrorist to find out why she’s here. But everything is not as it seems
Arctic Circle is set in the unforgiving polar region, amidst the icy landscapes of Finnish Lapland. After Nina Kautsalo, a Finnish police officer, finds a dying prostitute in an old cabin in the wilderness, the ensuing criminal investigation takes a grim twist when a deadly virus is discovered in the prostitute’s blood. When Thomas Lorenz, a German virologist, travels to Lapland to investigate the virus, he and Nina quickly find themselves in the middle of an exceedingly unusual criminal investigation that ends up forcing them outside the law.
ORIGINAL TITLE Bullets GENRE Drama thriller EPISODES 10 x 45min PRODUCTION COMPANY Vertigo BROADCASTER Elisa Viihde, MTV, C More RELEASE 19.10.2018 on Elisa Viihde SALES SkyVision PRESENTED BY Minna Virtanen / Producer CONTACT Minna Virtanen / Producer
ORIGINAL TITLE Ivalo GENRE Crime EPISODES 10 x 43min PRODUCTION COMPANY Yellow Film & TV,
Co-prod: Bavaria Fiction
BROADCASTER Elisa Viihde (first window) RELEASE 12/2018 on Elisa Viihde SALES Lagardère Studios PRESENTED BY Riku Riihilahti / Head of International Sales,
minna@vertigo.fi
Milla Bruneau / Senior Advisor CONTACT Yellow Film & TV / Riku Riihilahti Riku.Riihilahti@yellowfilm.fi Lagardère Studios / Emmanuelle Bouilhaguet emmanuelle.bouilhaguet@lagardere-studios.com
Minna Virtanen Producer minna@vertigo.fi
Riku Riihilahti Head of International Sales riku.riihilahti@yellowfilm.fi
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all the sins Sherlock North Addictively intriguing crime thriller about complex relationships, small town prejudices and alternative lifestyles. Detective Lauri Räihä returns home after 10 years to investigate the murders of two men in the small northern town where he grew up. His homosexual marriage is in trouble and going home forces him to face his family and the deeply religious Laestadian community that rejected him. With partner Sanna Tervo he works to solve the case, only to discover truths about himself, his hometown and whether one has the power to forgive all the sins.
Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes in subzero Northern Scandinavia, featuring a female Dr. Watson from Finland, and the coldest Moriarty you have ever seen.
ORIGINAL TITLE Sherlock North EPISODES 10 x 45 min PRODUCTION COMPANY Snapper Films BROADCASTER TBA RELEASE TBA SALES TBA PRESENTED BY Juha Wuolijoki / Creator-Producer-
ORIGINAL TITLE Kaikki synnit EPISODES 6 x 45min PRODUCTION COMPANY MRP Matila Röhr Productions BROADCASTER Elisa Viihde RELEASE Spring 2019 SALES Sky Vision PRESENTED BY Alan Sims, Executive Director, Elisa Viihde CONTACT Ilkka Matila / Producer,
Director, Snapper Films CONTACT juha@snapperfilms.com
ilkka.matila@matilarohr.com
Juha Wuolijoki Director & Producer juha@snapperfilms.com
Alan Sim, Executive Producer Elisa Viihde alan@epictv.com
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FINLAND FILM COMMISSION
The Finland Film Commission is a consortium of six regional film commissions across the country. We serve as the initial point of contact for all international queries related to filming in Finland, using production facilities and acquiring financing. It is our job to best match your every need, help bring international productions to Finland and ensure that you have access to our top professionals. We act as the primary link to local authorities and to the audiovisual infrastructure in each areas. Discover more at www.filminginfinland.fi
finnish Lapland Film Commission www.filmlapland.fi
Kristiina Werner Director, Int’l Sales and Marketing kristiina.werner@houseoflapland.fi
North Finland Film Commission www.nffc.fi
Anne Laurila Film Commissioner anne.m.laurila@businessoulu.com
West Finland Film Commission
Film Tampere www.filmtampere.fi
Ilkka Rahkonen ilkka.rahkonen@businesstampere.com
South East Finland Film Commission www.seffc.fi
Elina Häkkinen elina.hakkinen@businesstampere.com
www.wffc.fi
Sami Ristiniemi Executive Producer sami.ristiniemi@cursor.fi
Teija Raninen Film Commissioner teija.raninen@wffc.fi
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The new association for Finnish content producers in the film and television industry, called Audiovisual Producers Finland - APFI, is tasked with representing the interests of producers in the field of audiovisual content production, promoting internationalisation, and organising industry events and competitions. It is also responsible for the collective management of copyrights.
Business Finland, the national funding agency for innovations, is administrating the Finnish production incentive. The production incentive offers 25 % cash rebate for production costs in Finland. It is targeted for feature and documentary film, scripted fiction series and animation productions. Both foreign and Finnish production companies are eligible to apply. Funding service is quick and simple: ongoing call for applications, decisions in max 40 days and payments in 3 weeks. A great benefit is that payments during the production in Finland are also possible. The annual budget is 10 million euros. The target of the production incentive is to increase international interest in Finland as a production location and to promote the growth and internationalization of Finnish companies in audiovisual industry.
The association is the result of several representative and copyright associations for audiovisual producers – The Association of Independent Producers in Finland (SATU), Finnish Film Producers (Elokuvatuottajat), Audiovisual Finland and the Collective Society for Audiovisual Producers in Finland (Tuotos) – joined their operations into a single association in March 2018. The establishment of the new association grew out of the industry’s increasing needs. Continuous market development, the promotion of competitive conditions, and the industry’s internationalisation require increasingly efficient and competent services for the association’s members, customers and stakeholders.
Read more: www.businessfinland.fi/en/cash-rebate
The association offers to its members wide information on global and local markets, contacts and also arranges tailored events aiming at internationalisation. APFI will develop and coordinate promotion and operations of Finnish audiovisual incentive in close collaboration with other influencers and operators in the audiovisual field. APFI will promote Finnish contents and filming locations abroad.
Merja Salonen Product Manager, Business Finland merja.salonen@businessfinland.fi
Teemu Kalliala Executive Director Audiovisual Producers Finland – APFI teemu.kalliala@apfi.fi
Laura Andersson Coordinator, Business Finland laura.andersson@businessfinland.fi
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Fast and simple. The Finnish 25% cash rebate Qualifying production formats: • feature films • documentaries • scripted fiction series • animation
Qualifying applicants: • Finnish and foreign production* companies * Foreign applicants must use a Finnish production coordinator company which has a Finnish business ID.
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FEATURE FILM
2 500 000 €
150 000 €
DOCUMENTARY
325 000 €
50 000 €
TV DRAMA AND ANIMATION
5 500 € / minute
250 000 €
All applicants are required to have a distribution agreement for at least one platform or one territory. 10% of financing for the overall budget must come outside Finland and 50 % must be other than public funding. Ongoing applications. First come, first served basis. Qualifying costs in Finland are local expenditure from pre- to postproduction. Payment of funding possible during production. Read more: www.finlandcashrebate.fi
More information: Merja Salonen +358 2950 55974 merja.salonen@businessfinland.fi
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