SFI hands gold gold coin to August's 'Passion'

LONDON -- Danish director Bille August's first Scandinavian film for just about any decade, "The Passion of Marie," remains granted $226,000 in production funding with the Swedish Film Institute. The project can be a Danish-Swedish co-production good information on Danish painter Marie Kroyer. August's last Scandi project was Swedish pic "A Sound Lesson for Martin" in 2001. His latest movie was "Goodbye Bafana," starring Denzel Washington in 2007. The SFI has furthermore invested $256,000 into "Kon-Tiki," the ambitious U.K.-Scandinavian co-production in regards to the legendary Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who sailed a balsawood raft within the Off-shoreline in 1947. Your family adventure, which stars Friend Sverre Valheim Hagen as Heyerdahl, is directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, and shot largely in Malta. It's produced by Jeremy Thomas in the U.K.'s Recorded Picture Co. with Norway's Aage Aaberge. Pic is at publish-production after finishing filming in September and chances are it will launch within the Berlin Film Festival next February. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com