New Norway
TrixPix
TV Programming
Scotland
2016
Total project grant (euros)
78,960
Programme
Creative Europe
Sub-programme
MEDIA
Funding scheme
TV Programming
Call number
EACEA/21/2015
Call publication date
23 Sep 2015
Application deadline
3 Dec 2015
Result publication date
18 Apr 2016
Number of partners in project
3
Lead organisation
Saamifilmi Oy (NO)
Partners
TrixPix (UK);
Firstfilm & Television (SE)
Creative documentary New Norway (Nye Norge) is a 'Wild West' story set in the raw beauty of the Finnish Lapland wilderness. With humour and irony, the film explores the conflict between Sami reindeer herders, Norwegian adventure snowmobilers and tourist development through the eyes of Ingá-Máret, a young Sami woman. Ingá-Máret has to fight not only against the arriving foreigners to protect her reindeer but also against the stereotypes of her own people to prove she can manage her family's reindeer herd. The film explores how different cultures clash over the power of this poor vast land.
Norwegian production company Saamifilmi Oy was also awarded Single Project Development funding in 2014 for the development of this project.





