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Nordic Series Script Award: ‘Another Round’s’ Thomas Vinterberg and Feminist Porn Tale ‘Money Shot’ Score Nominations
Also making the cut: True event-based ‘Pressure Point,’ Erik Poppe’s ‘Quisling’ and Icelandic dramedy ‘The School of Housewives.’
Thomas Vinterberg ‘s “Families Like Ours,” “Pressure Point” from the writer of “Black Crab” and Erik Poppe’s “Quisling” count among nominations for a high-powered Göteborg Nordic Series Script Award, the biggest plaudit for TV screenwriting in Scandinavia. Replacing the Göteborg Festival’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the Script Award nominations also take in feminist porn comedy “Money Shot,” a Canneseries winner, and “The School of Housewives,” co-written and directed by Iceland’s Arnór Pálmi Arnarson, who helmed “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson. A feel-good dramedy – and finally tearjerker – yoking the talents as writers of Arnór Palmi Arnarson, also director of “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, multi-prized actor-scribe Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir (“Sisterhood,” “Agnes Joy”), and Icelandic production powerhouse Glassriver (“Black Sands,” “As Long As We Live”).
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