Present at Canneseries with “Man in Room 301,” screening today in competition, Warner Bros. Int’l Television Production Finland is ramping up its scripted content. The company is betting on two scripted shows a year, next to local versions of Warner Bros. TV factuals such as “First Dates” and “The Bachelor.”
Seija-Liisa Eskola, Wbitvp Finland’s creative director and head of scripted, said “Man in Room 301” was “a step ahead” as the first high-end international co-production. Launched last December on the local streamer Elisa Viihde, the U.K-Finnish psycho drama proved the most watched series over the Christmas period. About Premium Content just licensed it to territories including the U.S. (Mhz), France and Germany (both Arte).
Two crime shows are currently filming, both for the Finnish streamer C More.
The nine-part psycho-thriller “The Color of Evil” is created by inhouse head-writer Miira Karhula. Rising names Olli-Ilpo Salonen (“Wendy and the...
Seija-Liisa Eskola, Wbitvp Finland’s creative director and head of scripted, said “Man in Room 301” was “a step ahead” as the first high-end international co-production. Launched last December on the local streamer Elisa Viihde, the U.K-Finnish psycho drama proved the most watched series over the Christmas period. About Premium Content just licensed it to territories including the U.S. (Mhz), France and Germany (both Arte).
Two crime shows are currently filming, both for the Finnish streamer C More.
The nine-part psycho-thriller “The Color of Evil” is created by inhouse head-writer Miira Karhula. Rising names Olli-Ilpo Salonen (“Wendy and the...
- 10/11/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
The dystopian drama is based on Emmi Itäranta’s 2014 novel of the same name. Finnish director Saara Saarela is currently working on a new project, a dystopian drama entitled Memory of Water based on Emmi Itäranta’s 2014 novel of the same name. The Helsinki-born helmer kicked off her career in film in the late 1990s and her latest feature was Finnish-Swedish drama Twisted Roots (2009), starring Milka Ahlroth in the lead role. Saarela’s new project, penned by Ilja Rautsi, focuses on a young woman who finds the courage to start a battle over fresh water in the Scandinavian Union, a land dried up by environmental disasters and controlled by a harsh military government. The main cast includes actors Saga Sarkola (Maria’s Paradise), Mimosa Willamo (Aurora), Pekka Strang (Dogs Don’t Wear Pants), and Lauri Tilkanen (Ladies of Steel). The film entered production at the end of July since filming was delayed.
Home Is Where The Heart Is: Byrne Takes Up Fiction
For the decade prior to making his fictional feature debut, director Darragh Byrne helmed a number of Irish television documentaries that held implications of those who found themselves in various unfortunate situations, whether outlaws by chance (or choice, in The Underworld) or afflicted immigrant by law (as was partially the case in Mixed Blessings). Making the leap from non-fiction to fabrication with the socially conscious dramedy, Parked, Bryne continues to follow similar themes without rehashing worn material or sentimentally moralizing. Instead, the director takes a pair of downtrodden contradictory characters he could have plucked from one of his previous docs and rubs them together in classic odd couple tradition like a comedic experiment to see what kind of charge will result from the friction.
Long an Irish emigrant working odd jobs in Britain, Fred (played by a lovingly precarious...
For the decade prior to making his fictional feature debut, director Darragh Byrne helmed a number of Irish television documentaries that held implications of those who found themselves in various unfortunate situations, whether outlaws by chance (or choice, in The Underworld) or afflicted immigrant by law (as was partially the case in Mixed Blessings). Making the leap from non-fiction to fabrication with the socially conscious dramedy, Parked, Bryne continues to follow similar themes without rehashing worn material or sentimentally moralizing. Instead, the director takes a pair of downtrodden contradictory characters he could have plucked from one of his previous docs and rubs them together in classic odd couple tradition like a comedic experiment to see what kind of charge will result from the friction.
Long an Irish emigrant working odd jobs in Britain, Fred (played by a lovingly precarious...
- 11/29/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Fred Daly, (Colm Meaney) quite literally does not have pot to piss in and lives in his clapped out car, which is permanently parked in the local beach car park. It’s a meaningless existence until young druggie Cathal (Colin Morgan aka BBC’s Merlin) comes into his world. The question is: will Cathal’s chaotic energy give Fred’s life the kick up the arse that it needs?
Starting off with an always brave dialogue free opening five minutes, Parked meanders along as Fred mopes about, either staring wistfully out to sea, washing in the public toilets, or trying to sign on. From the off, it’s easy to see that this ambling pace may be a struggle for those audience members with a short attention span and despite the appearance of Cathal entering the fray, we still never get out of second gear (my...
Fred Daly, (Colm Meaney) quite literally does not have pot to piss in and lives in his clapped out car, which is permanently parked in the local beach car park. It’s a meaningless existence until young druggie Cathal (Colin Morgan aka BBC’s Merlin) comes into his world. The question is: will Cathal’s chaotic energy give Fred’s life the kick up the arse that it needs?
Starting off with an always brave dialogue free opening five minutes, Parked meanders along as Fred mopes about, either staring wistfully out to sea, washing in the public toilets, or trying to sign on. From the off, it’s easy to see that this ambling pace may be a struggle for those audience members with a short attention span and despite the appearance of Cathal entering the fray, we still never get out of second gear (my...
- 11/29/2011
- by Harry Roth
- Obsessed with Film
A mild drama about a man living in his car finds itself on a slow and winding road to self-discovery
Every morning Fred wakes up, pulls the seat upright and climbs out of his car. He hasn't had much luck on the housing front, so for now a Mazda in Dublin's Coast Road car park is home. Life would be grim if it weren't for Cathal (Colin Morgan), a fellow auto-dweller and unusually altruistic junkie, and Juliana (Milka Ahlroth), a kindly Finnish piano teacher that Fred (played winningly by Colm Meaney) bumps into in the local swimming pool. They're allocated their own diversions in this mild drama – Cathal's dad's disowned him, Juliana's a widow toying with moving back to Helsinki – but there's little doubt that we're heading on a pre-logged route: a slow and winding journey to self-discovery. There's a little action – drug dealers are after Cathal for €600 – and a little comic relief,...
Every morning Fred wakes up, pulls the seat upright and climbs out of his car. He hasn't had much luck on the housing front, so for now a Mazda in Dublin's Coast Road car park is home. Life would be grim if it weren't for Cathal (Colin Morgan), a fellow auto-dweller and unusually altruistic junkie, and Juliana (Milka Ahlroth), a kindly Finnish piano teacher that Fred (played winningly by Colm Meaney) bumps into in the local swimming pool. They're allocated their own diversions in this mild drama – Cathal's dad's disowned him, Juliana's a widow toying with moving back to Helsinki – but there's little doubt that we're heading on a pre-logged route: a slow and winding journey to self-discovery. There's a little action – drug dealers are after Cathal for €600 – and a little comic relief,...
- 11/25/2011
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Helsinki International Film Festival, which kicked off yesterday, will screen a programme of Irish features and shorts including box-office record breaker 'The Guard', Ian Palmer's bare-knuckle boxing documentary 'Knuckle' and Ripple World Pictures' Irish-Finnish co-production 'Parked'. Irish stars to attending the festival include Colm Meaney, who will be present for the screening of 'Parked' with fellow 'Parked' co-star and Finnish actress Milka Ahlroth, and director Risteard O'Domhnaill, whose feature length documentary on the Corrib Gas Pipeline 'The Pipe' will be screened at the festival. 'Knuckle' helmer Ian Palmer will also attend the Finnish Festival.
- 9/16/2011
- IFTN
The Dallas International Film Festival presented by Cadillac Announces Ann-Margret to receive the Dallas Star Award
Beautiful Boy, Ok Buckaroos and Soul Surfer named as the Centerpiece screeningsAll Selections in the Target Documentary and Narrative CompetitionsThe Dallas International Film Festival presented by Cadillac announced today that award-winning actress Ann-Margret will be honored with the Dallas Star Award at the upcoming festival (March 31 . April 10, 2011). This marks the first announcement of the prestigious Dallas Star Award Honorees.
Poignant dramas Beautiful Boy and Soul Surfer and the world premiere of Ok Buckaroos will be featured in the coveted Centerpiece screening slots. Fourteen films will vie for the unrestricted $25,000 Target cash prize in both the Target Documentary Feature and Narrative Feature Competitions.
The selection of Ann-Margret as a recipient of the Dallas Star Award follows a Dallas Iff Honoree Hall of Fame that features esteemed greats such as Sydney Pollack, Lauren Bacall, Adrien Brody,...
Beautiful Boy, Ok Buckaroos and Soul Surfer named as the Centerpiece screeningsAll Selections in the Target Documentary and Narrative CompetitionsThe Dallas International Film Festival presented by Cadillac announced today that award-winning actress Ann-Margret will be honored with the Dallas Star Award at the upcoming festival (March 31 . April 10, 2011). This marks the first announcement of the prestigious Dallas Star Award Honorees.
Poignant dramas Beautiful Boy and Soul Surfer and the world premiere of Ok Buckaroos will be featured in the coveted Centerpiece screening slots. Fourteen films will vie for the unrestricted $25,000 Target cash prize in both the Target Documentary Feature and Narrative Feature Competitions.
The selection of Ann-Margret as a recipient of the Dallas Star Award follows a Dallas Iff Honoree Hall of Fame that features esteemed greats such as Sydney Pollack, Lauren Bacall, Adrien Brody,...
- 3/9/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cameras will start rolling on the set of Ripple World Pictures' new feature film 'Parked' next week. 'Parked' is directed by Darragh Byrne (Wide Angle), written by Ciaran Creagh, and features an illustrious cast including Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth, Stuart Graham, Michael McElhatton and David Wilmott. The film's tagline 'Sometimes the person you least expect will change your life for ever' introduces a story about the unlikely duo of Fred, a mobile homeless man who loses his London-based job at the start of the film and Cathal, a frenzied 21 year old with a serious dope problem.
- 1/6/2010
- IFTN
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