12/03/2007

One of Denmark’s most innovative filmmakers, Anders Morgenthaler, and his producer/partner at Copenhagen Bombay, Sarita Christensen, are going to try to find the last part of financing for their latest animation project, The Apple and the Worm, during the first Financing Forum organised as part of the 27th BUFF International Children and Young People’s Film Festival in Malmö (March 13-17).

In his director’s statement, Morgenthaler says about his project: “With The Apple and the Worm, I would like to create a funny and dramatic children’s animation film. A film like no other out there. It’s not a Pixar film, not a Miyazaki, not a Jannik Haastrup film or French art film. It’s a moving and entertaining Anders Morgenthaler film, without the morally raised finger…about a fruit that talks and has decided how the world works for good or for bad. But first and foremost, it’s a film about friendship”.

The €2.1m project was co-scripted by Morgenthaler with Marie Østerby and is aimed at children 5-11 years old.

The Apple and the Worm is among 11 selected projects from Northern Europe that will be introduced on March 16-17 to 12 European financiers. Other projects include Samurai Summer by Swedish filmmaker Jens Jonsson, produced by Göta Film, and A Boy’s Tale by Uganda-born Swedish filmmaker Othman Karim, produced by One Tired Brother Productions.

The first BUFF Financing Forum is being supported by the MEDIA Programme, Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne and the City of Malmö.

This year's festival will present 99 films from 24 countries. Eight international films will compete for the Best Film Award and its SEK 50,000 cash prize, including the Swedish Guldbagge winner Kids in da Hood [+see also:
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