Leaving a mark

The C21 Interview: Star Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, writer Jónas Margeir Ingólfsson and director Nanna Kristin Magnúsdóttir discuss their collaboration on upcoming Icelandic political drama The Minister, about an unconventional politician who rises to power, all while hiding a hidden health condition.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Hopster chief creative and content officer Miki Chojnacka discusses how the video-based preschool app has evolved from acquiring content to commissioning and making its own, plus where the company sits among a proliferating array of streamers.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Big Light Productions founder Frank Spotnitz and creative director Emily Feller talk about the third and final season of historical drama Medici, made together with Lux Vide and Rai Fiction, plus upcoming series Leonardo and sci-fi fantasy Eisenhorn, based on the Warhammer 40,000 game.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Bunya Productions’ Greer Simpkin and director Warwick Thornton recall how they brought anthology series Mystery Road to the screen. A spin-off from the film of the same name featuring Aboriginal cop Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen), each season of the show is set in a town where secrets run deep. All3Media International is the distributor.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Sky Italia director of original productions Nils Hartmann and Lux Vide CEO Luca Bernabei discuss their new financial thriller Devils, based on the best-selling novel by Guido Maria Brera, and starring Patrick Dempsey and Alessandro Borghi.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Marvin Kren, director of ORF and Netflix copro Freud, and Bavaria Fiction executive producer Moritz Polter introduce the gothic period drama that follows young psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as he confronts a dark conspiracy in 1890s Vienna, and discuss the mould-breaking deal that brought the series to the screen.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Rebecca Gibney and Anthony LaPaglia, stars of Halifax: Retribution, discuss revisiting the string of 1990s Australian crime drama telemovies as a new episodic series for Nine Network and streamer Stan, sold globally by Beyond Distribution.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Matti Laine and Marja Pyykkö, writer and director of The Paradise, talk about the crime drama set in a Spanish coastal town with a large Finnish ex-pat population, a copro from MRP Matila Röhr Productions for YLE and Mediapro.