A Music Story – barnmusikal 80 min

I was involved in the film production at a late state. The independent production outside of national film finance had been struggling to get a musical done with partly private and partly state financed resources. In the process the film material was rejected distribution and the production had to acquire external Artistic support of me as Dramaturg and Film Director. By a total revision of the filmic material I distilled a story that was intended as a subplot and developed this into becoming the main plot. This required an extensive recut and rewriting whole sections to be shot on a couple of extra shooting days. In the end the Children’s Musical film was commissioned by TriArt and was finally granted distribution on Filmstadens cinemas around Sweden in 2019. It was also sold to The Swedish Broadcasting Company / SVT.

En feelgoodfilm för hela familjen. Moa hoppas på att delta i en låtskrivartävling men hindras av sin på musikindustrin bittre far. Hon måste i stället hålla hemligt att hon försöka förverkliga sina drömmar. Medverkar gör bl a Helen Sjöholm, Ace Wilder, Claes Malmberg, Adam Baptiste, Jan Malmsjö, Anders Widmark och Victoria Rönnefall.

Info

Feature Musical film 80 min. ”A music story”
Directing: AM Joakimsdottir-Hutri & Anders Widmark
Music: Anders Widmark
Producer: Lars Pettersson / Fundament Film ab & Maria Wande / Nöjfab ab
Distribution: Tri Art & SF Filmstaden
Premiere: summer 2019 in Sweden
Commissioned work: 75 000 skr
Budget: 10 000 000 skr

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