23/01/2007

Last night’s 42nd Guldbagge Award ceremony in Stockholm was a triumphal evening for veteran children’s filmmaker Catti Edfeldt and newcomer Ylva Gustavsson, who teamed up on youth film Kidz in da Hood [+see also:
trailer
film profile].

Not only did the film win in all four top categories in which it was nominated – Best Film, Director, Screenplay (Gustavsson and Jans Renhäll) and Lead Actor (this year’s Shooting Star Gustaf Skarsgård) – it also took another Guldbagge for Best Sound Engineering, Mixing and Original Score and Edfeldt won a special Gullspira award for her special contribution to children’s films.

However, the other two feature films that were equally nominated, Jesper Ganslandt’s Farewell Falkenberg [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and Anders Nilsson’s When Darkness Falls, went home empty-handed.

Kidz in da Hood was produced by Peter Holthausen and Pontus Sjöman for Gilda Film in cooperation with Sonet Film, Sandrew Metronome, TV3, Break Even and Filmhaus, with support from the Swedish Film Institute. The musical film about a young illegal immigrant who finds an unconventional foster father in a musician will screen in competition at Berlin’s Generation KPlus section next February and will have its market premiere at the European Film Market under Trust Film Sales’s flagship.

Haddy Jallow, the 20 year-old Gambian beauty living in Stockholm, was voted Best Actress for her performance in Daniel Fridell’s Say That You Love Me, and Best Foreign Language Film went to German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Florian Henckel von Donners…
interview: Ulrich Muehe
film profile] (see focus).

Lastly, the new Audience award, for which some 88,000 Swedish people voted, was handed out to star actor and producer Michael Nyqvist for Johan Brisinger’s box office hit Underbara Älskade (Wonderful Beloved), which has garnered over 80,000 admissions so far since its December release through Sonet Distribution.

Full list of 2007 Guldbagge awards:

Best Picture
Förortsungar (Kidz in da Hood)

Best Director
Ylva Gustavsson/Catti Edfeldtfor for Förortsungar (Kidz in da Hood)

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Haddy Jallow Säg att du älskar mig (Say That You Love Me)

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Gustaf Skarsgård, Förortsungar (Kidz in da Hood)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Lia Boysen, Sök (Search)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Anders A. Rosendahl, Hemligheten (The Secret)

Best Screenplay
Ylva Gustavsson and Hans Renhäll, Förortsungar (Kidz in da Hood)

Best Cinematography
Linus Sandgren, Storm [+see also:
trailer
film profile]

Best Foreign Language Film
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Best Short Film
Aldrig som första gången (Never Like the First Time) by Jonas Odell

Best Documentary Film
Vikarien (The Substitute) by Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren
Achievement in the specialist categories film editing, set design, costumes, make-up, special effects and animation
Marina Krig, Återkomsten

Best Achievement in the specialist categories sound engineering, mixing and original score
Fabian Torsson, Förortsungar (Kidz in da Hood)

Lifetime Achievement Award
Film critic Nils Petter Sundgren

The 2006 Ingmar Bergman Award
Actress Angela Kovács

The Gullspira (for Special contribution to children’s films)
Director Catti Edfeldt