Thomas Vinterberg Among Inaugural Nordic Series Script Award Nominees

The Göteborg Film Festival and Nordisk Film & TV Fond have announced the five inaugural Nordic Series Script Award nominees.

The nominated series are Families Like Ours (Denmark, nominated writers Thomas Vinterberg and Bo Hr. Hansen), Money Shot (Finland, nominated writer Jemina Jokisalo), Pressure Point (Sweden, nominated writer Pelle Rådström), Quisling (Norway, nominated writers Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen), The School of Housewives (Iceland, nominated writers Arnór Pálmi Arnarson and Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir). 

The award was launched last year and comes with a NOK 200,000 (€17,000) cash prize. The jury for the Nordic Series Script Award is Henriette Steenstrup, Actor and Screenwriter, Norway; Joanna Szymańska, Producer and CEO at SHIPsBOY, Poland; Linus Fremin, TV Critic and Creative Director at Make Your Mark, Sweden. 

This year the festival will also launch the Creative Courage Award to honor the producer and commissioner of a series that boldly pushes creative boundaries and embraces innovation. The Creative Courage recipient is selected from several admissions by the Nordic streamers and broadcasters.

“In these economically tough times, commissioning risks playing safe. With the Creative Courage Award, we want to shed light on a commissioner-producer collaboration that has resulted in an exceptionally brave and innovative series,” Liselott Forsman, CEO at Nordisk Film & TV Fond, said of the award. “I’m now happy to see that we have great candidates in many genres in both categories.”

The winners of the Nordic Series Awards will be announced at an award ceremony on the evening of January 28, 2025. The 2024 winners of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the former name of the award, were Johan Fasting, Silje Storstein, and Kristin Grue for the Norwegian drama Power Play.

Cia Edström, Head of TV Drama Vision at Göteborg Film Festival, added: “We are delighted to once again have the opportunity to be part of celebrating outstanding writers of Nordic drama and the ongoing innovation in the region. The selection demonstrates the diversity of stories emerging from the region and signals both the strength of the present and a promising future for Nordic drama series.”