02/05/2005

The international sales arm of Scandinavian production company Nordisk Film International Sales is going to start pre-selling in Cannes the Irish/UK/Danish co-production Johnny Was directed by Mark Hammond. The film scripted by Brendan Foly with Vinnie Jones, Tommy Hanagan and Roger Daltry in the cast, tells the story of an IRA member hiding out in London, Brixton during a time of racial tension, who is put under pressure to do a last job. The film is backed by the Irish Film Board-Bord Scannán na hÉireann and the Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission- NIFTC.

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Nordisk Film International sales will also have market premieres of Norwegian director Pål Sletaune’s new film Next Door produced by the director’s outfit 4 and a half, with Zentropa (Denmark) and Memfis Film (Sweden) as co-producers.
Three Danish films will also have their market premieres in Cannes: Adam’s Apples is a comedy directed by multi-talented writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen (The Green Butchers). The film produced by M&M Production has already attracted over 170,000 Danish cinemagoers since its domestic release on 14 April. The modern religious fable about belief and the struggle between good and evil is played by Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen and Paprika Steen.
Flies On The Wall also produced by M&M Production, is a thriller directed by Åke Sandgren (Truly Human) starring Trine Dyrholm and Lars Brygmann. Finally Chinaman by Henrik Ruben Genz, is a melodrama written by the prolific Kim Fupz Aakeson (Accused) and produced by Thomas Gammeltoft.