Last Monday came the news that the Flicker film, the production company behind the TV program “Fjord cowboys” has gone bankrupt.
the Program has since 2014 followed the harsh arbeidskarene Leif Einar Lothe (49) and u. r. Brought (39) through both sprengningsoppdrag and other, more untraditional and not the least enjoyable tasks.
Now, reports Bergens Tidende that it is full of controversy about the program.
At the core of the controversy is the question of whether the TV 2 has a legal right to view the next season of “Fjord Cowboys”, now that the production company is bankrupt.
Secured “Fjord Cowboys”
on Monday, last week told namely the co-owner of the Flicker film, Christer Fasmer, to BT that they have had full focus on ensuring that priority information, including the “Fjord Cowboys” are supplied.
we’ve achieved, ” he says to the newspaper.
According to the newspaper, it is the company Maverix who will take the costs for the upcoming season, so that the program comes on the screen in the winter.
Uncertain TV future: – Sad
But serieskaper Hildegunn Wærness believes her contract gives her all rights to the TV series in the event of a bankruptcy.
She created in his time “Fjord Cowboys”, and stood behind the first season before she pulled out of the project.
Konkursklausul
I don’t understand how the owners of the bankrupt Flicker film also sees the last season of “Fjord Cowboys” appears on the TV without that they have arranged up with me, ” says Wærness to BT.
Dagbladet has been sent a screenshot of the current contract. The contract is designed by the forbundsadvokat Bjorn A. Brem at the Norwegian Filmforbund, and signed by both parties in 2015.
“In case of manufacturer’s bankruptcy or material default, they fall rights the rights holder has granted to the manufacturer, back to the copyright holder 30 days after the konkursbegjæring have come into …”.
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– This is not about the money for me. It’s about justice, and that someone must take responsibility. But most of all, it’s about that enough is enough, ” says Wærness to the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, and explains:
– There is a lot of talks between iran in the film and TV industry, and there remains a lot of work to improve the conditions around filmarbeideres rights. People are afraid to get their careers destroyed if they say so, both when it comes to the work environment and contracts.
Wærness said that her main goal the whole time has been to take care of the brand “Fjord Cowboys”, as she has spent ten years of his life to create – from a budding idea in 2004 to premiere in 2014.
I have the board out of my own family on TV. I slipped and cut off my mother, appearing half naked, from a fyllafest in Hardanger in the 70’s, in the heading to the series, ” she says.
SERIESKAPER: Hildegunn Wærness created the tv-success “Fjord Cowboys”, which premiered in 2014. Here along with u. r. Brought, and Leif Einar Lothe. Photo: Ragnhild Sørheim Show more
she says She now thinks of all those who work with the series, and who have lost their jobs after the bankruptcy.
I hope those that work with the last season get the money that they are entitled to, and that it arranges itself for those who have had other projects in the Flicker, ” she says.
– Notified in 2014
Hildegunn Wærness is currently in Berlin, and will participate in the renowned international film festival Berlinalen, where she is one of five Norwegian talents who is picked to participate at this year’s Berlinale Talent. She wants to focus on this.
Life is too short for this nonsense. I feel in safe hands with the motion picture association of america, and hope there comes a solution soon. Now, I focus on have fat in Berlin and work on with my other projects , she says.
Wærness has long had a case going with the Norwegian Filmforbund against the production company Flicker film, because she believes both the working environment act and the copyright act have been infringed in the course of a period of several years.
Already in 2014 notified I that the conflict could spin out of control, if it was not taken proper hold of. All my raising your concerns and suggestions to fix, was ignored, ” says Wærness, and continues:
the Disclaimer that has been going on for more than five years, has been a major burden for many innocent parties, both in front of and behind the camera. To shove shit under the rug has never been a good strategy.
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– It is a huge and complex problems, which goes all the way back to the first season. Now is the Flickering film of a bankruptcy, so the conflict is thus the story, ” says Pedersen, but informs that the union represent her in the further expansion of this matter.
– Hildegunns problems is that she has ownership of the work, and that the agreement states that in a bankruptcy then falls rights back to her, says Pedersen, and continues:
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and with that Maverix has made a deal with TV 2 on completion of this season, and that TV 2 of course, that the investment they have made will result in that there will be a season to send, so we need to go in dialogue with Maverix and TV 2 to see if we can find a solution, ” he says.
makes a claim
Sverre Pedersen says the motion picture association of america now is in the process of preparing the contact with the parties, and that they will make a claim against Maverix and TV 2.
– So it depends on what they report back if it becomes a tricky situation or not. Technically it should be easy to solve. We hope they show benevolence, so that we get a quick and straightforward solution to this.
We relate to the TV 2 as the client, and consider us not as a party in a discussion about the rights to the “Fjord Cowboys”, for the owner could not Maverix, says managing director of Maverix, Jan Ove Årsæter, to Dagbladet.
” We have not received any response, neither from the Norwegian Filmforbund or from Hildegunn Wærness. Out of this we have no comments, ” says the press officer for the “Fjord Cowboys”, Alex Iversen, to Dagbladet.
– Followed the contracts
the Newspaper have for several days tried to get in contact with both Thomas Prado and Christer Fasmer in the bankrupt Flicker film, to put forward the criticism that comes forward in this case.
They have not answered our inquiries.
Christer Fasmer black however, the Bergens Tidende newspaper, when they contacted him regarding the case in the previous week. He did not want to comment on Wærness their claims.
– We have followed the contracts all the way. If she feels that something is uoppgjort and that her rights are safeguarded, I am sure that the liquidator will arrange up. I hope everyone gets as deserved, ” said June, then, to the newspaper.
It is currently uncertain whether this will be the last season of the program.
– we do not know, ” said Alex Iversen of tv2 Dagbladet earlier this week.
Leif Einar Lothe don’t want to comment on the case. When the bankruptcy first became known on Monday last week, he took, however, the news with worry.
It is sad when someone goes bankrupt of course. I’m not sure what happens in the future. It is not something I and u. r. has no control over, ” said Lothe to Dagbladet.
– Are you nervous about this being the last season?
I’m never nervous, I am. I find well always on something, said the 49-year-old, however, was dead certain that the coming season will be as good as the previous seasons, and pointed out that the bankruptcy does not affect the recording.
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