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Dynamic Tv Boards NRK Sequence ‘Dates in Actual Life’

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L.A.-based Dynamic Tv has acquired worldwide rights to its first ever Norwegian drama collection, “Dates in Actual Life,” produced by “State of Happiness” Maipo Movie for Norwegian pubcaster NRK.

The upcoming seven-part half-hour dramedy, set to begin filming subsequent month, is the long-form scripted debut of writer-director Jakob Rørvik, a graduate from the U.Okay.’s Nationwide Movie & Tv Faculty whose critically-acclaimed pic “Thomas vs. Tomas” acquired funding from the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

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“We’ve had an excellent collaboration with Jakob Rørvik as a author and director for a few years, and we’re so comfortable to now produce his first drama collection,” stated seasoned producer and Maipo Movie CEO, Synnøve Hørsdal. “We’ve skilled lots of curiosity in ‘Dates in Actual Life,’ however to us, Dynamic Tv is the proper associate for this undertaking. They’re very palms on, have a formidable community internationally and most significantly, we share the identical imaginative and prescient for the collection,” she stated.

The approaching-of-age dramedy follows the courting adventures of Ida, a younger Gen Z who has spent most of her social life in a digital actuality world, locked in her bed room. When her American boyfriend Marvin, whom she’s by no means met in particular person, all of the sudden pronounces he’s courting one other lady IRL, her world all of the sudden collapses. Ida units out on a mission to search out her personal “bodily” associate in a world she has little expertise in. Whereas doing so, she realises that she should first observe self-love earlier than loving another person.

Increasing on the collection’ arc and tone, Rørvik says the dramedy follows Ida via a full yr in her life, “as she strikes backwards and forwards between the web and the bodily world, between romance at a distance and up shut.” “It’s a collection that mixes drama and wry comedy with an empathetic take a look at trendy romance. And above all, ‘Dates In Actual Life’ is a really up to date tackle a younger character’s journey to self-acceptance, ” he acknowledged.

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Annika Schmidt, head of German Originals and European co-productions at Dynamic Tv, describes the present as “a contemporary story that faucets into the zeitgeist of how so many younger individuals are dwelling their lives right this moment. It’s an eye-opening however charming romance story that speaks to anybody who has ever been in love.”

“SKAM”producer Marianne Furevold-Boland who took the helm of NRK’s drama division final fall, believes the present brings a contemporary tackle love and relationships, and suits completely the Norwegian public service’s mandate which is “to search out new methods to inform tales about our current, and to mirror our viewers.” “‘Dates in Actual Life’ is a collection about daring to reside, daring to throw oneself into life and trusting oneself and love,” she added.

The present, produced by Maipo’s Petter Onstad Løkke and Hørsdal, has acquired backing from pubcasters SVT in Sweden, DR in Denmark, YLE in Finland, RÚV in Iceland, The Norwegian Movie Institute and Nordisk Movie & TV Fond. Key solid and crew might be introduced nearer to begin of principal images.

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“Dates in Actual Life” is a pattern of NRK’s upcoming drama slate, to be launched to business delegates on the Göteborg Movie Competition’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient confab, working Feb. 1-2.

Different Nordic premium exhibits on Dynamic Tv’s slate soak up Icelandic crime drama “Trapped” from showrunner Baltasar Kormákur, the Danish suspense thriller “Ship Us,” created by Christian Torpe, and blue-sky tackle Nordic noir “The Sommerdahl Murders.”

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