Well-bred porters

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Well-bred

porters

2 episodes TV-series

In the short-TV-series Well-bred porters we follow Curt Persson and friends from Rombaksbotten to Kiruna along the same way as Swedens richest and most powerful men traveled in 1896.

An unexpected journey

In 1896 the richest and most powerful men in Sweden traveled from Rombaksbotten to Kiruna in an attempt to get building of the railroad started. With them on the journey was about thirty Sami and Lantalaiset people acting as guides and porters.

One of them was Anders “Larsinanttu” Larsson from Kurravaara, an old relative to Curt.

From mountain to mine

In this short-series, Curt brings some friends along the way, but tells the story from the point of view of the minorities.

The series consists of two 30 min episodes and is co-produced by Filmpool Nord AB and Sveriges Utbildningsradio AB.

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Åsa Larsson

Alex Olofsson

Ida-Maria Sarri

Elsa Tapojärvi

Mats Spett

Sören Nutti

Mia Fors

Hans Alatalo

Ida-Maria Sarri

Anton Hennix Raukola

Rickard Garvare

Jonah Senften

Jonas Pietikäinen

Martin Eriksson

Johan Sandström &

Magnus Fredriksson

Curt Persson

2023

Bortbyting AB in co-production with Filmpool Nord AB – Katja Härkönen and Sveriges Utbildningsradio AB – Lisa Wiman

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They came from another planet

They came from

another planet

Game

A twin stick, fixed shooter, bonus hell, pixel art, shoot ’em up inspired by old arcade classics.

Invading aliens

Aliens have invaded and you, a blue housecat with a stretchy head, are, of course, our last hope.

Fight the aliens on earth, under the ocean and in space in this risk/reward based fixed shooter inspired by old arcade shoot ’em ups.

Shoot aliens and collect stars!

You are a blue house cat with a stretchy head. As aliens have invaded you are our last defense against their hordes. Fight the aliens on earth, under the ocean and in space in this fixed shooter inspired by old arcade classics.

Arcade style shoot ’em up

They came from another planet is a risk/reward based, arcade style shoot ’em up where you fight aliens by shooting at them (from your ears).

Killing an alien results in falling stars that you collect to level up and get stronger. You can stretch your head to collect more stars, but beware, stretching makes you an easy target for the invading force.

Stars also give you points. Points are useless but fun. You can also get to write your initials on the high score table if you have enough of them, just like in the arcades.

Reckless and rich or safe and poor

I you are hit, your head will split and have to connect before your life meter runs out. Leveling up by catching more stars is crucial in order to survive longer when split. In the end, it’s up to you how you like to play. Reckless and rich or safe and poor.

Sometimes the aliens also drops a power up to help you on your journey.

Credits

Music by Martin Eriksson, everything else by Magnus Fredriksson.

They came from another planet

Play for free on Steam

They came from another planet

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Magnus Fredriksson

Martin Eriksson

2023

Bortbyting AB

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Meet your local yuru-chara

Meet your

local yuru-chara

Short

Pa-zu is the local mascot that stayed behind when his childhood friends moved south.

Out of love for the place he grew up, he has endured as he pushes through adversity towards his goal of one day becoming a successful yuru-chara.

With Anton Hennix Raukola and Martin Eriksson. Script by Lo Lindström.

With music by Téophile Laporte and Martin Eriksson (who also did the sound design).

Other participants are Jan Flygare, Anna Flygare, Yukiko Soshino Fredriksson and Finn Fredriksson.

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5 min

2021

Swedish

Bortbyting AB

Filmpool Nord AB

The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Region Norrbotten

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Horrible Night

The Drats in

Horrible Night

Music video/Game

What a horrible night indeed…

Dracula is back, and you, dear player, have to, once again step in to the shadows of the hell house to rid the world of his deadly curse.

Local rock band The Drats wanted to make a video to their song Horrible Night, inspired by the NES Castlevanias. So we decided to make a music video also inspired by NES Castlevania, as well as Nosferatu, Bram Stroker’s Dracula and the old Hammer films. But what if we could also make it playable?

Said and done, we made the music video in Game Maker using GML.

Download and play the game for free from Game Jolt or from itch.io

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2021

The Drats

Bortbyting AB

Music Video North

BD Pop, Filmpool Nord AB and Region Norrbotten

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The Great Overflow

The Great

Overflow

TV-series/short film

Nif and Pää are swept away on the roof of a house by a gret flood.

Along the river and on the ocean they encouter a lot of characters and bear witness to pollution.

The film/TV-series is made in three different language versions, Meänkieli, Swedish and Sami.

Winner of the Pija Lindenbaum award at Sundsvall Film Festival 2021.

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24×1 min 15s, 23 min 15 min

2020-21

Swedish, Meänkieli, Sami

Bortbyting

Filmpool Nord AB and SVT

The Swedish Film Institute

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Well-bred porter

Well-bred

porter

Short doc from 2020

Let author and historian Curt Persson guide you along the Big Finance Trek, an expedition conducted in 1896 along what would eventually become the Iron Ore Line from Narvik to Kiruna.

The expedition was made up of the richest and most influential people in Sweden at the time, but carrying their equipment and showing them the way was about thirty local porters. Porters who are barely mentioned in the texts written about the expedition.

In this film we tell the story of The Big Finance Trek from the view of porter Anders “Larsinanttu” Larsson from Kurravaara.

In animated segments we also get to see things that happened on the journey that has never been made in to film before.

The film is made by Magnus Fredriksson, Curt Persson and Johan Sandström. Music and sound by Martin Eriksson.

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15 min

2020

Swedish, Meänkieli

Novarum, Bortbyting and

Älven Kulturproduktion

Filmpool Nord AB

Stiftelsen Längmanska Kulturfonden

Region Norrbotten

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Pa-zu’s song

Pa-zu's

song

Yuru chara film from 2019

Pa-zu, Kiruna’s (inofficial) mascot, shows his love and appreciation for the town by singing and dancing. Shake your paws and join us in Pa-zu’s song.

The short is a part of the “Pa-zu – a yuru chara” project wich also consists of photographs and short videos on instagram dealing with the ambiguity of life in a town like Kiruna.

The goal is to also produce a short film about Pa-zu sometime in the future.

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3 min

2019

Swedish

Filmpool Nord AB

The Swedish Arts Grants Committee

Region Norrbotten

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Hello Robot!

Hello

Robot!

Animated short from 2019

In the animated short film Hello Robot!, we follow a girl in a desolate world as she finds an abandoned robot in a cave.

Luck is short though, as batteries are hard to come by.

The project started as a music video in 2016, but before the video was complete, the band had dissapeared. During the following years the film was changed and expanded upon into a short film .

Martin Eriksson created the sound and wrote the music.

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4 min

2019

English (No dialogue)

TCB i Kiruna AB

Region Norrbotten

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Arctic Light Film Festival 2018

Arctic Light Film Festival

2018

opening film for Arctic Light Film Festival 2018

For Arctic light Film Festival 2018, i decided to do a yellow chicken character in a blue sweater.

There are also chickens, wich raises the question, is the man a chicken man? Is the chickens spare heads? or is his body a robotic body with a chicken driving?

I won’t give you any answer, atleast not this year…

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Arctic Light Film Festival

2018

Martin Eriksson, TCB i Kiruna AB

www.arcticlight.org

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Vem kan älska Pikku Iso, Kuka voi rakastaa Pikku Isoa

Who can love Pikku Iso?

Who can love

Pikku Iso?

Puppet short from 2018

Near a hill, by a lake, in the woods there is a place in which you are not likely to see another face.

Because since they closed down
the mine one day not a single person wanted to stay.

Only one lonely creature,
Pikku Iso, remainedas a guardian of land, to the site he was chained.

In the tiny village of Isopikkujärvi (pop. 1) lives a lonely Maahianen (a guardian of land in the Torne valley folklore) named Pikku Iso.

Pikku spends his days plying old videogames and sometimes he dreams of somone to share his lonely life with.

One night, he signs up for an online dating site. He is barely done with his profgile when he gets the first match.

Soon Pikku is on his way to his first date in the neighbouring municipality. Will Pikku find love?

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12 min

2018

Swedish or Meänkieli

Magnus Fredriksson

Martin Eriksson

Anton Hennix Raukola

Filmpool Nord AB – Katja Härkönen, TCB i Kiruna AB – Martin Eriksson och svt Minorities

Svenska Filminstitutet – Erika Wasserman, Region Norrbotten och Stiftelsen Längmanska Kulturfonden

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