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Eyeworks finds features Fine & Mellow and adds new production company

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International Eyeworks – one of the world’s top-five independent production-distribution companies operating in 17 countries – has set up Eyeworks Fine & Mellow, a joint venture with Danish producer Thomas Gammeltoft, to produce feature films and TV drama.

A division of Stockholm-based Eyeworks Scandinavia and based at Eyeworks’ headquarters in central Copenhagen, the new production outfit will launch a feature annually and also be in development-production with a television series for the Danish market.

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”The new framework will give us the clout to aim not only at the local, but the Nordic and international markets. My ambition is, with Eyeworks Sweden and Norway, to become one of the largest producers of Scandinavian drama,” said Gammeltoft.

”At the same time, we will work with cross-over content between reality-documentary, which is Eyeworks’ trademark, and fiction, which has been Fine & Mellow’s focus.” While Gammeltoft will be head of productions, Eyeworks’ Esben Halding will be the new company’s CEO.

Gammeltoft, whose Terribly Happy [+see also:
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by Henrik Ruben Genz won the Danish Robert award for Best Film, has most recently produced Genz’s Excuse Me, which will be released in Denmark on January 5 and internationally launched at the European Film Market in Berlin.

He is about to conclude negotiations for a US remake of Terribly Happy, and has optioned Henrik Strube’s novel, The Violin Maker, for Genz’s next film. He will also co-produce Danish director Per Fly’s Monica Z (for Zetterlund), staged by Sweden’s Stella Nova Film.

Founded in the Netherlands in 2001, Eyeworks supplies 100 broadcasters all over the world and its formats within the reality and talk show genres have been sold to more than 50 territories. On a Nordic basis, its annual outlet will be two-four features and three television series.

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