30/11/2012 - The Swedish producer, who won the Nordic Council Film Award for Swedish actress-director Pernilla August's Beyond, will be honoured for her role in European co-productions

Having just concluded five Fjellbäcka murders and instigated the sixth, Swedish producer Helena Danielsson (photo) will tomorrow receive this year's European Co-Production Award-Prix Eurimages during the European Film Awards ceremony in Malta. The prize acknowledges the decisive role played by co-productions in the European film industry.

Danielsson, who won the Nordic Council Film Award – Scandinavia's largest, which comes with a €47,000 cheque to share between the producer, director and writer – for Swedish actress-director Pernilla August's feature debut, Beyond [+see also:
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Claudia Galli Concha and Richard Ulfsäter play the leads in the series, which Danielsson has executive produced for SVT, Tre Vänner Produktion, Nordisk Film Production AB, Swedish regional film centre Film i Väst and Germany's Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). With Jan Malmsjö, Amanda Ooms and Jakob Oftebro, they also star in The Hidden Child, another Läckberg feature for theatrical from Tre Vänner, which Nordisk will release domestically in June 2013. The film will be the feature debut of Swedish director Per Hanefjord.

After 15 years in Nordic and European films, Danielsson began her own production outfit Hepp Film in 2003 to produce such films as UK director Clive Gordon's Cargo (2006), Swedish directors Jörgen Bergmark's A Rational Solution [+see also:
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Danielsson has also joined Sweden's Tre Vänner Produktion, which – besides the Läckberg package – has produced Swedish director Daniel Espinosa's Easy Money, the winner of another three Guldbagger. On her slate of upcoming features is Danish director Martin P. Zandvliet's yet untitled depiction of the 1960s whirlwind romance between Swedish legendary singer Anita Lindblom and hard-hitting boxer Bosse Högberg.