03/10/2012 - The Norwegian Film Institute has allocated €1 million for five international co-productions, including German director Wim Wenders' Everything Will Be Fine with Sarah Polley

In 2006, when Norwegian scriptwriter Bjørn Olaf Johannessen won the NHK Sundance Filmmaker Award for the script of Nowhere Man [+see also:
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The family drama about a man who accidentally hits and kills a child while driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, will be produced by Gian-Piero Ringel for the director's Neue Road Movies, with Norwegian producer Maria Ekerhovd of Mer Film. So far Canadian actress Sarah Polley is confirmed for the film, which will shoot in 3D (like Wenders' Pina [+see also:
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Everything Will Be Fine is included in a package of five international co-productions, which the Norwegian Film Institute will support with €1 million, along with Norwegian actress-turned-director Mona Fastvold's feature directorial debut, Sleepwalker, which will go into production in the US on October 16 for Karin Julsrud and Turid Øversveen's 4½ Fiksjon.

Finishing her actress education in America, where she performed in US director Don Roos' The Other Woman, Fastvold has directed around 20 music videos and also the script for her first €800,000 drama about the relationship between two sisters, complicated by childhood conflicts.

The Norwegian institute also chipped in for Swedish directors Jens Jonsson's Quick Money (local co-producer Fantefilm Fiksjon), Ronnie Sandahl's Liv (Hummelfilm) and Danish director Jeppe Rønde's first feature The Quatraro Mystery, which will mainly be shot in Norway with Piraya Film as Norwegian partner.