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‘So Damn Easy Going’ Producers Bet on Double Female Debuts (EXCLUSIVE)

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Annika Pham Göteborg-based Cinenic Film, headed by Annika Hellström and Erika Malmgren, has a flawless track record in backing debut directors with global breakthrough potential.Their roster takes in Ísold Uggadóttir (“And Breathe Normally”), Gorki Glaser-Müller (“Children of the Enemy”) and most recently Christoffer Sandler, whose fiction debut “So Damn Easy Going” opened the last Göteborg Film Festival and is now heading off to the Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund (Aug.

20-26).Cinenic will also be in Haugesund with its latest young filmmaking recruits, Angelika Abramovitch and Minka Jakerson and their respective feature debuts “The Braid” and “The Soft Skin,” to be pitched at the Nordic Co-production Market, part of Haugesund confab New Nordic Films (Aug.

23-26). The Crimean-born Swede Abramovitch competed in Clermont Ferrand with her graduation film from Stockholm’s Academy of the Arts “Catcave Hysteria” and was picked for the Future Frames next generation showcase in Karlovy Vary in July.Her directorial debut, the horror pic “The Braid,” is penned by Joen Heed Windahl with seasoned writer Jessika Jankert (Viaplay’s “Hammarvik”) and Theodor Österberg, who earned a best foreign language prize at the 2021 British short film awards for “A Swedish Defence”.“We want the best possible horror script for this scary and tight drama,” said Malmgren about “The Braid.” originally conceived by Windahl from his own experience of living with a mentally ill mother.In the pic, 11-year-old Ida has a close connection to her mother Karin, who lives isolated in Northern Swede’s deep forests.

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