New TV production company from Sonet Film, one of Sweden's premier film producers.
Swedish feature film production company Sonet Film is launching a new production entity, Sonet Television. The new production division will focus on the production of television drama series for the local and international markets.
The new television division will be managed by Sonet Films CEO Peter Possne together with producer Rickard Petrelius.
Projects already in development are drama and crime series created by internationally acclaimed writers such as Håkan Nesser, Kerstin Ekman, Henning Mankell, Lars Kepler, Anne Holt and Leif G W Persson.
In addition to a producer team that includes Peter Possne, Rickard Petrelius and Sandra Harms, the new division will also include as producer Ingrid Dahlberg, who has served as Head of Drama for the public service channel Swedish Television and Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.
Principal shooting of the first series is planned to take off during 2014.
"I am extremely happy and proud that we today can announce the launch of our new TV-production unit that will give Sonet Film an even stronger market position in the fast changing global media market," says Peter Possne, CEO at Sonet Film.