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Helsinki-based Tekele has unveiled the international trailer of its first premium crime drama “Transport”, which is in the running for this year’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for best Nordic TV screenplay. The prestigious award will be handed out Feb. 2 during Göteborg’s two-day TV Drama Vision confab.

Created and directed by Prix Europa winner Auli Mantila (“Silver Stars”), “Transport” is repped by REIvent International.

The eight-part series delves into the criminal activity of horsemeat trafficking and money laundering in Europe. It’s about ordinary people, under pressure, who somehow get involved, while a young journalist investigates the case of a microchip found in baby food. Toplining the show are Emmi Parviainen (“Shadow Lines”), Maria Heskanen (“Everlasting Moments”), Ville Virtanen (“Bordertown”) and Geert van Rampelberg (“De Infiltrant”).

“Transport” is the first major European premium TV show produced by fast-expanding Tekele, founded by seasoned producer Miia Haavisto. Speaking about her Belgium co-production partners Jonnydepony,...

Present at Canneseries with “Man in Room 301,” screening today in competition, Warner Bros. Int’l Television Production Finland is ramping up its scripted content. The company is betting on two scripted shows a year, next to local versions of Warner Bros. TV factuals such as “First Dates” and “The Bachelor.”

Seija-Liisa Eskola, Wbitvp Finland’s creative director and head of scripted, said “Man in Room 301” was “a step ahead” as the first high-end international co-production. Launched last December on the local streamer Elisa Viihde, the U.K-Finnish psycho drama proved the most watched series over the Christmas period. About Premium Content just licensed it to territories including the U.S. (Mhz), France and Germany (both Arte).

Two crime shows are currently filming, both for the Finnish streamer C More.

The nine-part psycho-thriller “The Color of Evil” is created by inhouse head-writer Miira Karhula. Rising names Olli-Ilpo Salonen (“Wendy and the...

The foundation has granted €5.6 million worth of production support to 22 projects, including a documentary that will finally explain why Finns don’t show emotion. Proving once again that what the Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away, the Finnish Film Foundation – which has just received €5 million for production support from the Ministry of Education and Culture due to Covid-19 (see the news) – has redistributed €5.6 million among 22 new productions, consisting of ten feature-length fiction films, six documentaries, four series (including two animations) and, finally, two short films: Pete Riski’s Ero and For Relaxin’ Times by Aleksi Delikouras. Among the fiction features, It’s Alive Films scored a double win with Teemu Nikki’s A Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic and the children’s film Snot and Splash, while Making Movies, run by Kaarle Aho and Kai Nordberg, got €300,000 for Tonislav Hristov’s...