For Somebody Else in Competition at Göteborg Film Festival!

We are thrilled to account that WG Film’s new film For Somebody Else from rising talent, Swedish filmmaker Sven Blume will have its World Premiere at Göteborg Film Festival! The film competes in the Best Nordic Documentary strand at the festival. We are also excited to announce that the film will be distributed by Swedish distributor and Nordic event cinema and outreach house Doc Lounge.

Surrogacy is prohibited in Sweden and many other countries, but in California the phenomenon is a growing industry. In For Somebody Else, we meet three women who for varying reasons have chosen to carry and give birth to the other people’s children. Director Sven Blume follows the everyday chaos and emotional turmoil they go through – before, during and after pregnancy – and allows them to formulate and reflect over their choices. The result is a thought-provoking, nuanced and intimate documentary.

For further information, screeners, images, interview opportunities, contact Hanna Markkanen, hanna@wgfilm.com.

For World Sales, contact info@riseandshine-berlin.de

For Swedish press enquiries and screening opportunities, contact Doc Lounge:

Maja Lindquist, distribution
maja@doclounge.se

Andrea Arvidsson, communication and partnerships
andrea@doclounge.se

Yes! We landed a new Creative Europe Slate funding.

WG Film got funded by the Creative Europe Development Slate Funding 2019. One film to look out for the coming years is “In the shadows of love”, directed by Anastasia Kirillova. Read more about that and our other documentaries in development here. Thank you Creative Europe!

See you at Nordisk Panorama!

Nordisk Panorama Film Festival 2019 is coming up and WG Film will be there! This Sunday (September 22nd) producer Margarete Jangård and director Sven Blume will attend the Work-in-progress presentation with their new documentary in development “For somebody else”. The film is right now in editing and will be released in 2020. See you!

PUSH IS HITTING THE SCREENS

Half a year after its World Premiere, PUSH is expanding its influence around the globe. With a cinema release in WG Film’s home country Sweden, a London premiere at the Barbican Centre on the 11th of September as well as a US premiere at the San Francisco Green Film Festival on September 24th, it is generating interest everywhere. 

The film has already begun cinema releases in Germany, Denmark, Canada and soon Spain, Sweden and Slovenia. In Germany the film has played in 79 theatres in total so far with cinemas in 20 cities screening the film at the moment. In Canada the film has played in 15 cities so far and continues to reach further with more and more screenings. Internationally, the film has been sold to distributors in 15 territories and several additional broadcasters.

Upcoming national premieres this fall include Mexico, Australia and Malaysia. 

In Europe, PUSH will screen at Bergen International Film Festival (Norwegian Premiere), Reykjavík International Film Festival (Icelandic Premiere) and the Irish Film Institute Documentary Festival (Irish Premiere) as well as screenings in Finland (Doc Lounge) and Austria. It is fair to say that PUSH is taking the world by a storm!

PUSH will continue to spread around the globe. Stay tuned for updates about the rest of the year. 

Let’s make a difference together. Join the movement. 

#pushback

We’re looking for an intern!

Are you passionate about documentaries? Are you interested in developing, distribution, outreach, SoMe, communication and design? Then WG Film is the right place for you!

We are looking for an intern to become a part of our team in Malmö. Your tasks would include assisting us at the office, maintaining our social media channels, researching projects, designing visual elements, helping us with applications and other fun things!

You will get to know all aspects of making documentaries and a thorough understanding of what it takes to run an independent production company, which produces internationally renowned films.

We are primarily looking for a student from the film and media field, but all students are welcome to apply.
You should be able to speak English at a sufficient level for both oral and written communication. A knowledge of the Adobe CC package, previous experience with making films or a combination of both would be great, but is not required.

The internship period would be from February until June, but we can adjust it according to your needs. The internship is unpaid.
Please send your application as soon as possible to amila@wgfilm.se

Happy Holidays!

What a busy year it’s been. Our films have yet again traveled all around the world, we’ve been working hard in preparing PUSH and Jozi Gold, so you can enjoy them next year, we managed to launch a successful Kickstarter campaign AND the office has grown by two new colleagues!
Now we need a little break before we come back and continue the hard work of bringing you awesome documentaries.

Happy Holidays from everyone at WG Film!

PS: Remember that from now you can until January 1st, you can buy or rent any of our films and get 15% off with the code HappyHolidays2018

Find all of our films here: vimeo.com/wgfilm/vod_pages

NEW FILM BY FREDRIK GERTTEN - RELEASE 2019

Landlords without faces. Apartments without tenants. A documentary exploring the new, un-livable city.

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities worldwide. Incomes are not. The working and middle classes are getting pushed out of cities, while financial powerhouses use housing as a place to park money. 

PUSH investigates why we can’t afford to live in our own cities anymore. We follow UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, Leilani Farha, on her quest to understand who’s getting squeezed, who’s getting rich and why housing has become one of today’s most pressing world issues. 

A trailer for Fredrik Gertten’s new film PUSH is out now! The film will be released next year. 

You can support the film here

OUTREACH & COMMUNITY STRATEGIST

WG Film produces award winning international documentaries. When people who want to change the world use our films as tools, we feel proud. Our audience is global and we communicate with them on a daily basis. After successes like BANANAS!*, Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, Bikes vs Cars and Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas, we now want to strengthen our outreach team.

We are looking for a passionate co-worker for our team at WG Film. You are interested in and have some experience of:

• online strategic communication

• outreach and impact work

• community building

• communicating in English

• documentary film

From the WG Film office in Malmö, you will be part of developing and implementing strategies around community building and outreach. You will also be working with our social media accounts to keep in touch with existing fan base as well as work to broaden it. As being part of a small team, in a small company, you will also take part of finding funding for the outreach work.

About You
We are interested in people from different backgrounds, perhaps you have a background in communications or you have worked at an NGO, for instance. Either way, an interest in world political issues is crucial. Please send your application as soon as possible to film@wgfilm.com. We will start interviewing from September 1st 2018 and forward.