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DOCUMENTS: Here’s the crew that spins the movie Trond Giske during the Labor Party’s national gathering on April 4, 2019. Photo: Helge Mikalsen, VG
The State Channel was involved at an early stage, but decided not to participate in the production of the film which will be about “how we build a story about ourselves that we can live with.”
Last October, it was announced that award-winning film director Håvard Bustnes is working on a documentary film about Trond Giske, to which the former Labor Party leader himself contributes.
It is not known when or how to release the film.
However, it is now clear that she does not receive childbirth assistance from NRK as a co-producer.
“NRK can confirm that we have invested in a development project with UpNorth Film AS in a documentary film on the Giske case,” states a state channel response to a request for access by VG.
“The project is completed on our part and we have no intention of investing in a documentary based on the development project.”
Most don’t believe in
Petter Wallace, publisher of programs for external content at NRK, does not want to comment specifically on why they dropped out of the movie Giske.
– There was nothing controversial other than having to prioritize differently.
Wallace says that NRK typically participates in 15 to 20 development projects within a year.
– Normally we invest in two or three times more projects with which we choose to proceed. The ones we follow are the projects in which we have the most faith, and in this case, this film was not among them.
EXPECTED BY: NRK External Manager Petter Wallace. Photo: Jørgen Braastad
NRK received massive criticism last fall when Anne Lindmo interviewed her colleague NRK and Trond Giske’s wife Haddy N’jie on the “Lindmo” flagship.
N’jie was up to date with a book where his views on the storm surrounding the Trond Giske were central.
NRK was accused of failing to ask critical questions of N’jie in the interview, which took place when her book was smoking on store shelves.
Wallace denies that this criticism influenced NRK’s decision not to co-produce Giske’s documentary with UpNorth.
– It is easy to reach such a conclusion, but if it had been so, we would not have entered a preliminary project either.
It does not exclude that NRK can buy the viewing rights to the film when it is completed, if the producer UpNorth does not associate with another television station as a partner.
Wallace says that NRK generally contributes between NOK 40,000 and 150,000 for pre-project films, sometimes more.
He doesn’t want to comment on how much NRK put in the movie project pot.
“Mighty wounds”
Director Håvard Bustnes says UpNorth is now in dialogue with various actors about the film, which has the working title “Trond Giske – the roars of power.”
– That there is no co-production with NRK is not a problem for us. Whether the movie will end in NRK or not show time.
The film has been widely funded. For public support, the project received NOK 600,000 from the Norwegian Film Institute and 400,000 from the Midnorsk Film Center.
In addition, Filminvest has contributed 300,000 and Fritt Ord with 250,000. Also, an unspecified amount comes from NRK.
The film’s total budget is 2.75 million, according to an UpNorth request to the Norwegian Cultural Council, where the company is requesting 300,000.
In the above budget, the Norwegian Film Institute and the Midtnorsk Film Center are estimated to contribute an additional 800,000 in total.
– Financing a film is a job that takes a long time. It is not more difficult for me to finance this film than others, says the director.
AWARD WINNER: Director Håvard Bustnes receives the Amanda Award for Best Documentary in 2008 for the movie “Blood and Glory” about boxer Ole Klemetsen and his father John. Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB
Christian Aune Falch, general manager of UpNorth, says the total budget of 2.75 million is tentative, and that work is underway to raise production funds.
– challenging
The app emphasizes that the production company behind the movie Giske has experience making challenging and controversial documentaries, and that this is precisely a “cinematic stunt exercise.”
“The fact that the film is challenging is a great driving force behind our desire to make this film.” Film art must challenge, provoke and marvel, but at the same time it must be done in a correct and correct journalistic way. In the development phase of this movie, we have been in close dialogue about all the pitfalls we face with our financiers, “he says.
and:
“This is a movie about how we build a story about ourselves that we can live with.”
A LOT OF SECRET: This is what Giske’s film project description looks like in the funding request from production company UpNorth of the Norwegian Cultural Council, after downloading content except the public. Photo: screenshot
VG has asked the director how this appears in the film about Trond Giske.
– I think you should see the movie when it’s done, says Bustnes.
– When we make documentaries we don’t know how it will end. It is a process. But the fact that we all make stories about ourselves is something that generally worries me, and that’s a premise for several of my films.
VG has been in contact with Trond Giske and sent him questions about the film’s previous description and about NRK’s exit from production. He has not responded to these.
Giske says this about his participation:
– Everything about the content of the film and what kind of film it is turned into, I don’t know, depends entirely on who makes the film. They asked me in 2018 if they could sometimes follow me on various tasks and trips, and I said yes.
