Copenhagen-based DR Sales, sales rep of the Oscar-winning “Mr Nobody Against Putin” and Sundance hit “A New Kind of Wilderness,” has closed a raft of deals on the Norwegian wildlife documentary “Frost Without Snow and Ice” (“Frost uten Snø og Is”) on the heels of its world premiere at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Broadcasters and distributors who have snapped up the latest work by Asgeir Helgestad (“A Call from the Wild,” “Queen Without Land) include WDR/Arte (Germany), Against Gravity (Poland), Film Europe (Czech Republic and Slovakia), Now TV Limited (Hong Kong), VRT (Belgium), RTS, SRF and RTSI (Switzerland), NRK (Norway), RÚV (Iceland), SVT (Sweden) and DR (Denmark), with additional sales underway according to DR Sales.
With his fifth film, Helgestad – one of Norway’s most awarded wildlife and nature cinematographers – has spent 10 years in Norway’s arctic archipelago of Svalbard, patiently tracking a polar bear called Frost and her cubs – two of them named ‘Snow’ and ‘Ice.” The film explores the increasingly challenging coexistence of humans with polar bears – the world’s largest land predators – as climate change forces the mammals closer to human settlements to hunt for food, making dangerous encounters unavoidable.
