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Norwegian True Crime ‘Escaping Bolivia,’ Starring Jakob Oftebro and Ella Øverbye, Boarded by REinvent (EXCLUSIVE)
The true case of three young Norwegian girls arrested in Bolivia for smuggling cocaine was the inspiration for the show.
Scandinavia’s leading sales outfit REinvent has boarded Norway’s true crime “Escaping Bolivia,” currently filming in Cape Town, South Africa, after an initial shoot in Oslo. Helmer Anna Gutto, behind Lionsgate’s “Paradise Highway” starring Juliette Binoche, is concept director, working next to creator and episodic writer Emily Beck, attached to Netflix ’s “Royalteen.” Toplining the six-part series are Jakob Oftebro (“Agent Hamilton”), Ella Øverbye, from Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams,” Josephine Tetlie, Lisa Hovden and Danish actor Joachim Fjelstrup (“The Girl With the Needle”). Other premium titles on REinvent’s Mipcom slate include the Finnish thriller drama “L/over,” the first live-action fiction show initiated by Marika Makaroff, founder of “Moominvalley’s”producer Gutsy Animations.
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