Just when Riz Ahmed dropped CAA as his agency, Norwegian-Pakistani filmmaker Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen was signed by The Gersh Agency that is drastically increasing its international roster.
According to Deadline: “Norwegian-Pakistani filmmaker Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen’s latest production Semester is the first Scandinavian drama on Snapchat Shows.”
Now that has merit. People put all kinds of personal stuff on it, thinking it will disappear but in the new age, everything is collated and goes to some server.
Deadline also reported that while Semester was launched with its own website, “but has logged millions of views on Snapchat’s drama platform.”Furthermore, Semester has been viewed in 180 countries worldwide and was previously sold to Scandi broadcasters NRK in Norway, DR in Denmark and Sweden’s TV4.
The synopsis is as follows: “The underground hit follows a teenager (Herman Tommeraas, star of upcoming Norwegian Netflix original Ragnarok) who returns to Oslo after dropping out of school and skipping town to travel to Paris. According to Rolfsen, who wrote and produced the series with Curry Film partner Alexander Johansson, 60 per cent of the drama’s viewers are under 25 and almost 90 per cent watch the series on mobile.”
Rolfsen is best known for co-directing four-part BBC One crime-drama In The Dark, starring MyAnna Buring and action-drama movie Izzat for which he scored five nominations at Norway’s Amanda Awards.
