Zwart to direct Pink Panther

The Norwegian director Harald Zwart has been asked to produce the next film in the Pink Panther series, about the legendary, French police inspector Jacques Clousaeu.

Steve Martin will again be playing the lead as the clumsy detective, first played by Peter Sellers.
It is the first time that a Norwegian director has been asked to make a film as expensive as this.

First Norwegian Oscar since 1952

She now lives in Canada, but Torill Kove had a long list of people in Noway to thank as she grasped the first Oscar won by a Norwegian since Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki snatched the award for best documentary in 1952.

She won for her direction of a short animated film called "The Danish Poet"
Produced by Lise Fearnley and Marcy Page for Norway’s Mikrofilm and the National Film Board of Canada, the 15-minute is the story of Kaspar, a poet whose creative well has run dry, who embarks on a holiday to Norway. On the way his quest for inspiration is supported by a spell of bad weather, angry dogs, cows that slip from barn planks, careless postmen, hungry goats and other seemingly unrelated factors.