Onerva Pictures, KJ Entertainment and Hummelfilm awarded co-development funding by Creative Europe

Onerva Pictures Oy, KJ Entertainment GmbH and Hummelfilm have been awarded 180,000€ in co-development funding by Creative Europe, to jointly develop their thriller series SHADOW WAR.

The European co-development initiative provides funds to audiovisual production companies to develop works with high creative value and cultural diversity and wide cross-border exploitation potential.

Onerva Pictures is honoured to be working on the development of SHADOW WAR with experienced producers from Norway and Germany:

Norwegian producer Gudny Hummelvoll of Hummelfilm recently produced Nothing To Laugh About (2021) and the TV-series Billionaire Island (Netflix, 2024), Headhunters (2022) and seasons 1-3 of Occupied (2015). Gudny is also serving as the President of European Producer’s Club. 

Based in Munich and New York, producer, writer and director team Kathrin Lohmann and Katharina Otto-Bernstein are best known for feature films Joyland (Cannes Prix du Jury 2023), Meeresleuchten (ARD), starring Ulrich Tukur (The White Ribbon) and Sibel Kikilli (Game of Thrones); Jack the Ripper (SAT1), starring Nicholas Farrell; the Amazon Prime series Für Umme; The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, starring Malcolm McDowell and Mira Sorvino; the acclaimed HBO documentaries The Price of Everything (Emmy Nomination), Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (Two Emmy Nominations), Beautopia (Sundance premiere); and packaging the Oscar, BAFTA and César winning The Lives of Others.