Haugesund 2015: TEENAGE JESUS Wins Best Pitch At Nordic Genre Boost, Watch Teaser For Short
All the projects were discussed behind closed doors in a workshop at the Night Visions International Film Festival in Helsinki in April -- I was in the lobby, and no one told me anything -- and then again in Haugesund, Norway during New Nordic Films' Co-Production and Finance Market, which concludes today. Now comes word that the project was awarded Best Pitch in Haugesund.
In their report, Variety updates details on the project. Back in March, it was described like this:
TeenlandDenmark. Science Fiction. First feature film by Marie Grathø Sørensen, produced by Amalie Lyngbo Hjort and Peter Hyldahl of Beofilm. Sci-fi pop noir about girls with endangering talents, who are locked away in an institution.
The title has now been changed, and more information has been revealed, describing it as "a partly self-inspired sci-fi drama about an anarchistic teenage girl who's committed to a psychiatric hospital, where she discovers that she can actually cure the other patients' mental disorders."
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Harmony Korine," explained Grahto, [who] showed extracts from Ingmar Bergman's Persona as well as Gus van Sant's Elephant and Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux. Her short film Teenland world premiered at SXSW this year. Teenage Jesus will be her first feature film."
The image above is from Teenland, Grahto's 30-minute short film. You can watch the very impressive teaser for the short below. Based on the teaser alone, I'd love to see a feature version.
Teenland from Sophie Winqvist, DFF on Vimeo.
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