03/09/2012 - After winning six Amandas – Norway’s national film prize – for three different films, Norwegian production outfit Motlys backs another four local movies, including two debuts

Norwegian directors Hanne Myren and Eskil Vogt are both in production with their first features for Norwegian producer Sigve Endresen (photo), whose Oslo-based Motlys won six Amandas – Norway's national film prize – for three different films at the recent awards ceremony during the 40th Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.

After award-winning documentaries, Myren has scripted her feature debut about 22-year-old Mona – a troubled and lonely girl – who falls in love with Adam, the first boyfriend who treats her well. Enters her father, who left her when she was very young. Julia Wildschut, Ahmed Wasty and Petrus Wildschut star in Jealousy, which Brede Hovland produced for Motlys AS for a spring release.

Norwegian director Joachim Trier's writer sidekick Eskil Vogt has also penned his own Blind, which is currently filming for Hans-Jørgen Osnes and Endresen, and brings together a 30-year-old woman who has recently lost her sight, a 30-year-old newly divorced single mother and a 40-year-old man, a loner who is into porn on the web. The cast includes Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali and Marius Kollbenstvedt.

Also on Motlys' line-up is Rune Denstad Langlo's follow-up to North (2009), his own story of Ellen, who has not seen her family for a while, and when she returns to her home when her grandmother’s dies, nothing goes as expected. Marie Blokhus, Sven-Bertil Taube,Tobias Santelmann and Frederik Meldal Nørgaard play the leads in the Hovland-Endresen production, which will open in the spring.

Finally, Yngve Sæther and Endresen have started shooting Stian Kristiansen's Kiss Me, You Fucking Moron, which last week received production funding from the Norwegian Film Institute.