Closed ahead of a Haugesund Pitch, ‘Virginia Dentata’ has also signed up Dana Bunescu, editor of ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’ “Vagina Dentata,” the new film from Norwegian filmmaker Nataša Urban, whose “The Eclipse” won top honors at CPH:DOX in 2022, has been boarded by Manifest Film. The Romanian outfit will co-produce “Vagina Dentata,” a genre-bending exploration of motherhood and postnatal depression that will be pitched at this week’s Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund. Produced by Ingvil Giske through Norway’s Medieoperatørene, the project is currently 60% financed, with most of the secured funding coming from the Norwegian Film Institute.
In another addition to the film, Romanian editor Dana Bunescu — whose credits include Cristian Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” Cristi Puiu’s “The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu,” Călin Peter Netzer’s “Child’s Pose” and Alexander Nanau’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Collective” — is attached to edit. The team is now seeking additional co-production partners in France, Germany and/or Hungary, alongside further financing, distribution and festival connections.
Urban said the film was born out of the gap between cultural expectations surrounding motherhood and her own experience after becoming a parent. Instead of sunshine and butterflies, all I could think about was death,” she said. For Giske, “Vagina Dentata” also marks another collaboration with Urban after their previous work together.
For “Vagina Dentata,” the immediate goal is to use the market to close the remaining financing and expand the project’s European co-production structure ahead of production.
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