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PRODUCTION Norway

Peter Næss teams with Tsatsiki writer

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Norwegian filmmaker Peter Næss famous for his ‘Elling’ films, is going to direct Hoppet (Hope), a new children film based on a book by Swedish writer Moni Nilsson-Brännström, behind the successful Tsatsiki books and film adaptations.
Hoppet is the story of 12-year-old Azad of Kurdistan origin, who with his elder brother decides to flee to Sweden the day their parents are arrested.
The project which was just awarded NOK1.1m from the Norwegian Film Fund, is a Norwegian/Swedish co-production. The Norwegian producers Silje Hoppland Eik and Tanya Badebdyck from Cinenord who both graduated from the Lillehammer Film School, just finished filming their first feature film production Trigger by the director of Falling Sky Gunnar Vikene.
The Swedish co-producer Joachim Stridsberg (Happy Zingo Production) previously worked on Reza Bagher’s Popular Music From Vittula. Following their partnership on Hoppet, Cinenord and Happy Zingo intend to extend their collaboration on other children and youth films.

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Peter Næss’s last film based on the Elling character, Love Me Tomorrow [+see also:
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is the most successful Norwegian film of 2005 with over 307,000 tickets sold so far.

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