01/02/2024
“Many good movies have come out of Finland in the last decade,” Norwegian producer Einar Loftesnes shares with us. “Like Norwegians,” he continues, Finns “work with smaller crews which gives you a community feel on set and in production, where everybody helps everybody.”
Loftesnes discovered other complimentary qualities between Norwegian and Finnish crew while working on the thriller "Evilside." Shot in northern Finland, the film highlights a small community embroiled in a murder mystery.
With a background in music and post-production, Loftesnes was particularly attracted to Finland’s natural setting of woods and lakes, but the project revealed more benefits than just the Finnish landscape: supportive crews, deep expertise in snow-how and accessible funding.
“I really like the way Finland organises its incentives... It’s much better suited to the nature of the creative industry, which doesn’t always work according to schedule,” Loftesnes explains.
For a film set in the depths of winter, it was also invaluable that both teams shared a deep understanding of the intense Nordic climate.
“From our side in post-production, it was critical to authentically capture the sounds of winter when carrying out field recordings - snow crunching underfoot, heavy jackets rustling - the sound of it being very, very cold,” Loftesnes continues.
“Both Finns and Norwegians know what a truly cold winter means. It was easy to collaborate on creating a winter feel in the colour grading” as well as visual effects related to snow too.
“It just really helped that both teams are deeply familiar with this climate and could both step in to capture winter in an authentic way.”
Read our full interview with Einar Loftesnes from Handmade Films In Norwegian Woods here: https://www.filminfinland.com/en/news/2024/einar-loftesnes-testimonial-evilside
Produced by Finnish Whatevergroup Oy and Handmade Films in Norwegian Woods, “Evilside” Amsterdam-based SKOOP Media closed a deal with Walter Presents on “Evilside” for the UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand at the end of last year.
