Scandis fund femme visions

'Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy''She Monkeys'The Stockholm Intl. Film Festival has always marketed Swedish talent, however the 22nd edition takes that right into a new dimension using the launch of their own production fund for ladies company directors.The fest, which happens November. 9-20, will award $750,000 to some youthful female filmmaker to shoot an element which will premiere in the 2012 event.The funding originates from Swedish telecom giant Telia and also the Swedish Film Institute, with NonStop Entertainment handling distribution.The SFI includes a radical mandate to award a minimum of 40% of their production funding to female company directors, authors and producers, but lack of women candidates has managed to get hard to achieve that concentrate on.InchWhenever we recommended this, (the SFI) were keen to seize it," describes SIFF director Git Scheynius. "A little country like Sweden can't afford to disregard half the populace whenever we make films."The fest received 32 candidates through the September deadline, a mixture of beginners and lately established names for example Lisa Aschan, whose debut "She Apes" continues to be acclaimed at festivals all over the world this season.The champion is going to be introduced No. 19. The runners-up go for $38,000 in the SFI to assist with the introduction of their next projects.Scheynius describes the fund like a "thrillingInch progression in the fest's lengthy-established 1 km Film scholarship, a $15,000 prize for top video clip, that has assisted to produce the careers of countless Swedish company directors.One previous champion, Babek Najafi, has returned this season by having an incomplete cut of his second feature, "Fast Money 2," the long awaited follow up towards the hit 2010 crime thriller.The 2010 selection provides a more than usual prominence to Swedish and Scandinavian talent, beginning using the opening evening gala for "Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," the very first British-language feature by Swedish helmer Tomas Alfredson.The fest includes three world premieres of Swedish films -- Levan Akin's social drama "OthersInch competing, plus Staffan Lindberg's comedy "Not so long ago in Phuket" and Kjell-Ake Andersson's smalltown drama "Elsewhere."Scheynius notes an abnormally large "power of Nordic talent" within the primary competition, whose 22 game titles include Ruben Ostlund's "Play" from Sweden, and Joachim Trier's "Oslo, August 31" and Jannike Systad Jacobsen's "Turn Me on, Dammit" from Norwegian. Danish helmer Nicholas Winding Refn's American thriller "Drive" also screens from competition."After I saw 'Oslo,' 'Play' and 'Drive' within 2 days at Cannes, I figured this can be a really new method of making films for Scandinavia. We now have more intriguing and brave company directors than we'd before," she states. "The conventional of Swedish and Scandinavian films has certainly risen recently. We wouldn't insert them in competition when they were not just like anything else."HIGHLIGHTSThe 22nd SIFF will screen 170 films from 44 nations, which 31% is as simple as debut company directors, 26% by femme helmers and 43% with female producers.FESTIVAL OPENER:The festival opens with "Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," directed by local hero Tomas Alfredson, and shuts with Pedro Almodovar's "Your Skin I am In." The mid-gala is Andrea Arnold 's competition entry "Wuthering Levels."AWARD Those who win: French actress Isabelle Huppert will get the lifetime achievement award. Mexican author-director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu will get the Visionary Award and hold a masterclass. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle and Danish producer Peter Aalbeck Jensen will even give masterclasses. Whit Stillman is becoming jury chair, together with his latest film "Damsels in Distress" screening from competition.Tests:The 22-film competition includes Steve McQueen 's "Shame," Sean Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene," Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty," Miranda July's "The Near Future,Inch Iranian helmer Maryam Keshavarz's "Conditions" and "Coriolanus" by Rob Fiennes. Out-of-competition tests include David Cronenberg's "A Harmful Method," with Viggo Mortensen set to go to, Gus Van Sant 's "Restless," Luc Besson ' s "The WomanInch and Paolo Sorrentino's "This Should Be the area.Inch STOCKHOLM Worldwide FILM FESTIVAL Scandis fund femme visions Business matters Swedish muscle Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com