COLD PURSUIT (2019) About The Crew
Hans Petter Moland, Frank Baldwin, Michael Shamberg, P.G.A., Ameet Shukla, P.G.A., Philip Øgaard, Jørgen Stangbye Larsen, Anne Pederson
HANS PETTER MOLAND (Director), FRANK BALDWIN (Screenwriter), MICHAEL SHAMBERG , p.g.a. (Producer), AMEET SHUKLA , p.g.a. (Producer), PHILIP ØGAARD (Director of Photography), JØRGEN STANGBYE LARSEN (Production Designer), ANNE PEDERSON (Costume Designer),
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
HANS PETTER MOLAND (Director)
COLD PURSUIT is an adaptation of Moland´s Norwegian film In Order Of Disappearance which had its world premiere in the Berlinale Competition Programme 2014. In 2016 Moland directed A Conspiracy Of Faith (Flaskepost fra P), both a critical and commercial success. It was the highest grossing film in Denmark in 2016. Most recently Moland directed the feature film Out Stealing Horses , based on the critically acclaimed and award winning novel by Per Petterson.
Moland´s Norwegian language original of In Order Of Disappearance ( Kraftidioten , starring Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen) received multiple awards and was sold world-wide. The film, the director, three of the films stars, and the screenwriter, were nominated for EFA awards (European Film Awards) in 2014.
Moland has twice before participated in The Berlinale Competition Programme: in 2010 with A Somewhat Gentle Man (Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Anders Basmo Christiansen) which won the Berliner Morgenpost Audience Award and went on to win numerous prices, including the Special Jury Price at Chicago International Film Festival, A Norwegian Amanda for Best Actor and 4 other nominations. In 2004 he participated in The Beautiful Country starring Nick Nolte, Tim Roth, Bai Ling and Damian Ngyuyen. The film was nominated for an Amanda Award and Independent Spirit Award® for Best Screenplay.
Aberdeen (starring Lena Heady, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling , Ian Hart) had its world premiere in competiton in Karlovy Vary where Ian Hart won a Best Actor Award. The film had its North American premiere in Telluride, was shown in Toronto and won the Best Dramatic Picture Award in Hampton International Film Festival. The film went on to win other awards including a European Film Festival Best Actress award for Lena Headey, a European Film Award nomination for Stellan Skarsgård, a Best Screenplay award in Milan, and a Bronze Frog in Cameraimage for the Director of Photography, Philip Øgaard.
Zero Kelvin premiered in The San Sebastian Competition Programme in 1995. The film was awarded Special Jury Price, won Best European Film at Asta Awards in Copenhagen and Best Picture at Norway´s Amanda Awards.
His adaptation of famous Norwegian novel Comrade Pedersen was awarded Best Director Award in Montreal 2006.
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Hans Petter Moland directed the short film United We Stand which won the Grand Prix in Clairmont Ferrand. The film won an additional 23 awards worldwide, and holds the record for the most awards received by a Norwegian film.
Additionally, Moland has directed several hundred commercials. His work has won all the major awards, including Gold Lions in Cannes and Clio Awards. He also directed a play at the Norwegian Theatre in Oslo, John Patrick Shanley´s ‘Doubt’. In 2011 he made the feature length documentary When Bubbles Burst .
Hans Petter Moland is recipient of the Norwegian cultural awards ‘Arne Skouens Ærespris’, (a bi-annual honorary award named after legendary Director Arne Skouen), ‘Edit Calmars Ærespris og Kritikerprisen’. (The Norwegian Critique´s Award).
Moland was educated at Emerson in Boston and lived for close to eleven years in the United States before returning to Norway. He now resides in Oslo.
FRANK BALDWIN (Screenwriter)
Frank Baldwin is a screenwriter and novelist. He grew up in both New York and Tokyo, Japan, and attended Hamilton College in New York State.
His first novel, ‘Balling the Jack’, was published by Simon and Schuster, and was a Barnes & Noble ‘Discover Great New Writers’ selection. His second novel, ‘Jake & Mimi’, was published by Little, Brown.
He lives in Southern California with his wife Lora and his two sons, Evan and Colin.
MICHAEL SHAMBERG, p.g.a. (Producer)
Michael Shamberg is a movie and TV producer who has produced more than 40 films and TV series. His credits include true stories, science-based films, thrillers, comedies and Zeitgeist films: Django Unchained, Contagion, Erin Brockovich, World Trade Center, A Walk Among The Tombstones, Freeheld, Freedom Writers, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction, Out Of Sight, Get Shorty, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Reality Bites, and The Big Chill.
His movies have received 26 Oscar® nominations. Shamberg is the Executive Producer of the hit AMC TV martial arts series Into the Badlands starring Daniel Wu which is going into its fourth season. He is also an advisor to BuzzFeed Motion Pictures.
AMEET SHUKLA, p.g.a. (Producer)
Ameet Shukla is a film producer and the President of Production for MAS Production, a Los Angeles based film and television production company. His interest in film began at the age of 15 when he was tasked with editing Spike Lee’s 102 minute film 4 Little Girls into a 5 minute clip for a school assembly geared towards educating students about diversity, tolerance, and acceptance. It was then when he learned just how influential the mediums of film and television were in conveying positive messages.
He recently produced COLD PURSUIT starring Liam Neeson, alongside his producing mentor, Michael Shamberg. The film is a darkly comedic action film about a snowplow driver inadvertently setting-off a war between local drug lord, Viking, and his rival, the leader of a First Nations drug cartel in a nearby ski town.
Prior to that, in 2016 he served as Executive Producer on Freeheld starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page. Freeheld is based on the true story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree, a New Jersey police lieutenant and her domestic partner, who fought against local government officials to secure Laurel's pension benefits when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released the same year marriage equality was won in the United States.
In 2014, Shukla Co-Produced Wish I Was Here starring Zach Braff, Kate Hudson, Josh Gad and Joey King.
The film was Zach Braff’s feature follow-up to his highly acclaimed film Garden State and raised over $3.1M from over 46,000 backers on Kickstarter. The film centers on a struggling actor who finds himself at a major crossroad in life causing him to turn to his faith and reexamine what it means to be a father, son, and husband. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and earned a Gotham Award nomination for Joey King as Best Breakthrough Actor.
Shukla is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara Film Studies program where he got his start in film as the cinematographer for an award-winning stop motion animated short, ‘The Dancing Llama’, centering on a talented dancing llama who must overcome a debilitating spitting problem before a major dance competition.
PHILIP ØGAARD (Director of Photography)
Philip most recently finished working on the big HBO nordic production, Beforeigners , in Vilnius/Litauen. After COLD PURSUIT he worked on Swedish TV series Det som Gjøms i Snø . His career comprises over 60 features as a DOP, as well as over 300 commercials, TV series and short films.
JØRGEN STANGBYE LARSEN (Production Designer)
Larsen designed In Order Of Disappearance (which had it’s world premiere at the 64th Berline Film Festival in 2014) with director Hans Petter Moland and was asked to rejoin the team for the North American adaptation, COLD PURSUIT.
A graduate of the Norwegian Film School, Jørgen has served as production designer with some of Norway´s most exciting directors. He was nominated for an Amanda Award, Norway’s national film prize, for his work on director Joachim Trier´s Oslo, August 31st (which premiered in Cannes) and Sara Johnsen´s All That Matter Is Past .
He collaborated with Eskil Vogt on the feature film Blind , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in World Competition, winning the World Cinema Screenplay Award. It was also screened in the Panorama section in Berlin (winning the European Cinema Labels Prize)
The children's adventure film Captain Sabretooh And The Lama Rama Treasure, garnered him Best Production Design at The Kanonprisen Awards (Norwegian film professionals’ own annual awards). He then went on to design the classic family comedy Snekker Andersen Og Julenissen, director Boudewijn Koole’s feature length drama Disappearance, and the thriller The Quake for John Andreas Andersen. He also worked as art director on the Matt Damon social satire, Downsizing.
Currently Jørgen continues his collaboration with Hans Petter Moland for the project Out Stealing Horses, based on the internationally successful novel by Per Petterson, expected to release in early 2019.
ANNE PEDERSON (Costume Designer)
Costume designer Anne Pedersen has always been interested in clothing following in the footsteps of her father and grandfather. She had a brief career in the fashion industry before moving to Copenhagen to study decorating, after which she found work in commercials as a decorator where she had the good fortune to meet both director Hans Petter Moland and Director of Photography Philip Øgaard, who became her mentors. She secured her first job as a costume designer in 1988 with then first time director Martin Asphaug and the feature film A Handful Of Time .
Since then she has designed costumes for more than thirty-five feature films, two seasons of television and multiple short films.
She most recently worked with Hans Petter Moland on Out Stealing Horses , from the book by Per Petterson and is currently working on season 3 of Occupied , a Norwegian political thriller TV series.
