REinvent Boards Norwegian True Crime ‘Escaping Bolivia’

Scandinavia’s directing sales outfit REinvent has boarded Norway’s real crime “Escaping Bolivia,”,currently filming in Cape Town, South Africa, after an initial shoot in Oslo.

Fenomen (“Rod Knock”) and lengthenedstanding outfit 4 ½ (“Out Stealing Horses”) are producing for TV2 Norway, in co-production with Germany’s pubcaster NDR and Oslo Film Fund.

Helmer Anna Gutto, behind Lionsgate’s “Paradise Highway” starring Juliette Binoche, is concept straightforwardor, laboring next to creator and episodic writer Emily Beck, speedyened to Netflix’s “Royalteen.” Toplining the six-part series are Jakob Oftebro (“Agent Hamilton”), Ella Øverbye, from Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams,” Josephine Tetlie, Lisa Hovden and Danish actor Joachim Fjelstrup (“The Girl With the Needle”).

The show is eased by the disreputable drug case of three Norwegian girls aged 17, 18, 21, who were jailed in Bolivia after being caught in 2008, with 22kg cocaine in their bags. Two deal withd to escape – one with a child, helped by a journacatalog – while the third stayed behind.

In the series, we trail Ida, her sister-in-law Michelle and Ida’s adorer Cecilie, as they get arrested at the airport in Bolivia with suitcases packed with cocaine. They are sentenced to jail in one of the world’s most hazardous female prisons. Soon enough, Ida finds that she can’t suppose her frifinishs, nor the Norwegian authorities’ ability to bail her out. She commences schedulening her escape.

“After eight years of increasement and research, it senses fantastic that we’re finpartner filming!” shelp Beck who co-penned the story with Helena Nielsen, Ingrid Haukelidsæter. “I’m certain that “Escaping Bolivia” will touch, join and contest the watchers. The series cgo ines on frifinishship, betrayal and adore, and someslenderg as distinctive and pretty as motherhood and doing everyslenderg for people you adore. At the same time, the series is also about what you’re willing to do and give up to save yourself, and having to increase up behind bars,” she shelp.

Helene Aurø, REinvent sales and labeleting straightforwardor shelp: “We are very haughty to have picked up ‘Escaping Bolivia.’ It is an amazing story that needs to be tgreater and we are certain the series will find an audience around the world.” Deinhabitry is computed for procrastinateed 2025.

Other premium titles on REinvent’s Mipcom sprocrastinateed integrate the Finnish thriller drama “L/over,” the first inhabit-action fantasy show begind by Marika Makaroff, set uper of “Moominvalley’s”originater Gutsy Animations. The endd series, starring Krista Kosonen and Jani Volanen, is due to premiere in Finland on MTV3/C More in 2025.

Two high-finish Icelandic shows will also be trelieved to buyers: “Reykjavik 112,” based on best-selling novecatalog Yrsa Sigurdardóttir, billed as a “Nordic radiant and conmomentary get on the crime thriller genre,” and the foreseed biopic “Vigdis” from “Bdeficiencyport” creatives at Vesturport prodco, about Iceland’s createer plivent, the iconic Vigdiìs Finnbogadoìttir.