Swedish screenwriter and director Ylva Forner has signed with CAA for representation.
Forner’s feature film debut “The Schoolmaster Games” premiered in April and screened at the Göteborg Film Festival. The queer boarding school drama is based on Kristofer Folkhammar’s acclaimed novel “Magisterlekarna.”
The film, which was acquired for sales by LevelK in 2020, has a daring conceit, turning on an all-male school, St. Sebastian Academy, where homosexuality is the norm among students. Forner described her film as a “melodrama for the 2020s.”
“In a universe inspired by high school movies and ’90s boy bands, pulsating with burning desires, we tell a story of hierarchies and power structures that has been demolished and rebuilt again,” said Forner.
While the film’s setting is “heightened and playfully camp,” as the story goes on, the school becomes a “mirror of our everyday world and turns into a conversation about the deep universal...
Forner’s feature film debut “The Schoolmaster Games” premiered in April and screened at the Göteborg Film Festival. The queer boarding school drama is based on Kristofer Folkhammar’s acclaimed novel “Magisterlekarna.”
The film, which was acquired for sales by LevelK in 2020, has a daring conceit, turning on an all-male school, St. Sebastian Academy, where homosexuality is the norm among students. Forner described her film as a “melodrama for the 2020s.”
“In a universe inspired by high school movies and ’90s boy bands, pulsating with burning desires, we tell a story of hierarchies and power structures that has been demolished and rebuilt again,” said Forner.
While the film’s setting is “heightened and playfully camp,” as the story goes on, the school becomes a “mirror of our everyday world and turns into a conversation about the deep universal...
- 6/8/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
LevelK is selling the film and has also struck a deal with streaming service Viaplay for the UK.
Swedish drama The Schoolmaster Games, which will have its world premiere in Goteborg this week, has been acquired by TriArt for Sweden, with the local release planned for April 22.
LevelK is selling the film and has also struck a deal with streaming service Viaplay for the UK.
Ylva Forner’s debut feature is an adaptation of the novel Magisterlekarna by Kristofer Folkhamma, about a schoolmaster who plays secret erotic games with a pupil.
Backers include Swedish Film Institute and Svt as part of the Moving Sweden scheme.
Swedish drama The Schoolmaster Games, which will have its world premiere in Goteborg this week, has been acquired by TriArt for Sweden, with the local release planned for April 22.
LevelK is selling the film and has also struck a deal with streaming service Viaplay for the UK.
Ylva Forner’s debut feature is an adaptation of the novel Magisterlekarna by Kristofer Folkhamma, about a schoolmaster who plays secret erotic games with a pupil.
Backers include Swedish Film Institute and Svt as part of the Moving Sweden scheme.
- 2/4/2022
- ScreenDaily
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