One of the Nordic region’s biggest providers of premium series, Copenhagen-based REinvent International Sales, will make a splash at this week’s Canneseries festival and MipTV market.
For the second consecutive year, the sales, financing and packaging banner has two titles in competition: the Danish drama thriller “Dark Horse”, due to world premiere in the main competition, and the short form Swedish dramedy entry “Painkiller”, which initially bowed at the Göteborg Film Festival.
“Last year we had the Norwegian political drama “Power Play” which won best series, and the Swedish romantic dramedy “Out of Touch” in the short form section. Canneseries is a great platform to get the hype going on your series,” commented Helene Aurø, REinvent sales and marketing director.
Turning on this year’s competition candidates, Aurø points out that both “Dark Horse” and “Painkiller” deal with mother/daughter relationships.
The Danish drama thriller “Dark Horse,” ordered by TV2, explores a teenager girl’s attempt to liberate herself from her controlling mother to fatal consequences. In the title roles are Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (“Borgen”, “Pitch Perfect 2”) and rising talent Josephine Højbjerg.
“It’s a multi-layered story with at its core, the story of a self-centred mother and her abusive relationship with her daughter. But there is also an interesting cultural clash angle as the two women come back to rural Denmark after having travelled around the world. We immediately loved the premise, the cast and saw the international potential in it,” said Aurø.
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