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Another win for We are Family!

Very proud to get this email: “Dear Jannike, we’ve got some good news for you: Congratulations on winning an Honorable Mention: Dark Comedy. Our jury loved your work on We Are Family- and we hope you take pride in it.”

Thank you Sofia Hallgren for a great collaboration on the composition of the music score to the film, that hightened also the composition of the film it self.

Thank you again all wonderful people in the crew: Malin Nicander, Bibi Bibi Bibi, Nicolas Liebing, Simon Chandie Danielsson Daniel Scheja and the actors Jannike Grut Alexandra Alegren Casper Andreas Henrik Norman Per Löfberg Thank you Family!

LIKE our Facebook page fro the film We are Family http://We are Family – 2019 to get updates for showings!

Next showing in Sweden is APRIL 24 at the movie theatre ZITA in Stockholm http://www.zita.se/

Acting

Jannike Grut is currently filming a German thriller, one of the biggest tv-shows in Germany with around 7 million viewers per film. She plays one of the sisters in the family this Agata Christie-inspired murder story is about.

Later in March she is filming in a new big Swedish tv-show Ture Sventon.

Producing and writing

The work on the tv-series Finding your way | Hitta hem home continues together with director Richard Jarnhed.

Sending the film We Are Family to other festivals around the world for the next coming months…

And not the least, starting the work on getting co-producers in on developing and producing THE FEATURE We Are Family, with the support of screenwriter Alvaro Rodriguez.

Seven times Award winning Garden Lane aka Trädgårdsgatan !!!

Now at the Swedish Film Academy Awards! The film was nominated for the best script, the best cinematography AND top ten for the audience prize!

And this beautiful and moving film Jannike is in, WON the prize for “Best Cinematography” by Kristoffer Jönsson! Congrats to Kristoffer to the prize!!! And the whole crew to all nominations!

On the gala with actor colleagues, from the left: Angelina Håkansson in Award winning Ted – för kärlekens skull, Jannike Grut in Award winning Garden Lane, aka Trädgårdsgatan. Margareta Pettersson from last years success with Matt Damon, Downsizing and Fredrik Wagner from the famous German actress and film director Margareta von Trottas movie, Forget about Nick.

ACTING

Jannike filmed in Sweden and also nailed a role in the upcoming Swedish TV series Ture Sventon, with a remarkable gallery of great Swedish actors attached to it.

WRITING & PRODUCING  

Together with screenwriter Sabina Zupanc and director, Richard Jarnhed, Jannike is continuing to work on the TV series Finding your way home aka Hitta Hem and will both meet new, interested co-producers and continue with the script.

Continuing the development of the screenplay to feature We are Family, with Alvaro Rodriguez.

NOMINATIONS!

Two nominations to the Swedish Film Academy award for the film Garden Lane! The script and the photo! Congrats colleagues! Jannike is happy and proud to be a part of this journey as one of the actors.  Congrats also to Olof Spaak and Sofie Palage for making this script and film happen!

🌟 TVÅ GULDBAGGENOMINERINGAR 🌟
Vi säger grattis till de två som nominerats för sitt arbete med Trädgårdsgatan: Gunnar Järvstad är nominerad för Bästa manus och Kristoffer Jönsson för Bästa foto. Så välförtjänt! 💫 https://guldbaggen.se/nomineringarna-for-filmaret-2018

ACTING

Jannike worked in LA, got her American social security number and her first American production Anika&Teddy is now up for premiere during 2019!

ACTING Jannike Grut ended the year with both some film days and some days in a voice studio dubbing a big series for a big company… All we can say is that it was good fun! She also made an audition for a film for a good cause, and recorded another voice job.

PRODUCTION|WRITING The meeting with the screenwriter last month ended with a first draft of the first episode of the tv-series Finding your way home.

And we’re happy to announce that we’ll from now on will be working together with Screenwriter Sabina Zupanc on the script! Director Richard Jarnhed and Jannike Grut continue as showrunners.

PRODUCTION

Award winning WE ARE FAMILY !!! First fiction, first competition, first prize!

We are family crew!

At the Live Score festival Stockholm 2018 the audience and the jury loved our film, the dark comedy We are Family, and it won an award!  It was amazing seeing the world premiere of “We Are Family”, written and directed by Jannike Grut her self, with a live orchestra conducted by Jonas Dominique, at the first Live Score Festival in Stockholm.

We won the award for Best Composition! Thanks to a great collaboration between the actress, director Jannike Grut and the fantastic composer Sofia Hallgren! Thanks again also to the crew behind and especially there cinematographer Malin Nicander  for great photo.

NOV 11 th  The Modern Theatre produced film We are family  premieres at

Live Score festival Stockholm

The event aims to put light on the film music – the film score – and 8 newly produced shorts will be screened, with music performed LIVE by the Film score ensemble, conducted by Jonas Dominique.

The film is directed by Jannike Grut and the music is composed by Sofia Hallgren. See her fantastic reel here: Sofia Hallgren, Red pipe studios

ACTING

Jannike Grut plays the lead in the dark comedy We are Family.  A coming of age story for a middle-aged woman, about life death and new siblings. Jannike plays the Danish-American Nanna.

Jannike is also playing Danish Asta Larsen in a pilot for an English mini-series which takes place in Copenhagen.

Finally, Jannike is also filming in Norway, in the international production TBT, where she plays the German woman Nora.

WRITING

Meeting with a younger Swedish screenwriter this month, to develop new work relations.

 

 

ACTOR

Mid July Jannike Grut got accepted in SAG AFTRA – Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and radio artists!!

Prepping for some shooting in August.

PRODUCER

Long Swedish July vacation! 🙂

 

Producer

After Cannes filmfestival, we had meetings with two bigger producers  Jannike met there, regarding two different film and tv projects. One of the project meetings led us to another meeting soon, then with TV.  If the meeting with the TV company goes our way we´ll get some more development money for scriptwriting in the autumn.

The other contact in Cannes led to a meeting with a producer who actually are interested in producing our brand NEW project,  a sequel of an earlier film. A photographer and filmmaker is already involved and have said yes to be a part of the film. TO BE CONTINUED…

Jannike Grut was asked to write and direct a short for THE PRODS Live Score Festival,  and will produce a Film musical called Human Stuff which is going to be shown with the film music performed live by an orchestra, at the festival in Stockholm at Nov 11, 2018. Arranged by composer Daniel Engström.

Actor

Jannike was

Assigned for a Swedish Comedy Pilot production filming in August.

Assigned for  Swedish Feature filming in August.

Assigned for an American Web series filming in USA during next year.