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8.06.2009

Ice, snow and suspense


Oulu, the capital of Northern Finland, was the location for a French thriller in February.

 

Category: General
Posted by: nffc

White as Snow (Blanc comme Neige), directed by Christophe Blanc, tells the story of three French brothers becoming entangled in smuggling cars. Once the events take the brothers to the wintry Finland, the shooting locations for the thriller were found in the snowy centre of the city of Oulu, on the ice-covered Bothnian Bay and in the hibernal country landscape surrounding the city. Production company: Blue Monday, France (Bertrand Gore, producer). Co-operation partner in Finland: Helsinki-Filmi Oy. Production services in Oulu were provided by Vaski Filmi Oy.

Producer Bertrand Gore tells about filming the feature White as Snow in Oulu region in the article Putting Finland on the Big Screen is published in Meet in Finland magazine. It also covers the role of Film Location Finland project and regional film commissions in bringing international productions to Finland.

Read the article starting from page 10 here: http://www.nffc.fi/uploads/MeetInFinland_magazine.pdf

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