Kai Nordberg is a CEO and co-founder of a Helsinki based production company Making Movies Oy (Ltd.). He produced the Oscar short listed and Golden Globe nominated The Fencer (2015). Over the past 20 y ...Show More
Kai Nordberg is a CEO and co-founder of a Helsinki based production company Making Movies Oy (Ltd.). He produced the Oscar short listed and Golden Globe nominated The Fencer (2015). Over the past 20 years Nordberg has produced 14 features and more than 50 documentaries and short films distributed worldwide.Kai Nordberg was born 1968 in Helsinki. During 1989 - 1994 he worked as a foreign correspondent and photographer in Berlin. In 1989 he also started film, TV and journalism studies at Freie Universität in Berlin.Making Movies Oy (Ltd.) is a Finnish film production company based in Helsinki. Established in 1996 the company produces and co-produces fiction and documentary films for international market. The managers, founding members and shareholders of Making Movies are Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho.Since 1996 Making Movies has produced 14 feature films and more than 50 documentary and short films and TV-dramas. The films produced by Making Movies have been distributed in more than 40 countries worldwide.The feature films include Klaus Härö's The Fencer (2015) nominated for Golden Globe and short listed for Oscar, Petri Kotwica's Rat King (Tribeca and Shangai International Film Festival 2012), Black Ice (2007) premiering in the Berlinale 2008 competition, and Homesick (2005), a prize winner in several international film festivals, as well as Jan Forsström's The Princess of Egypt (Mannheim-Heidelberg Competition 2013).In spring 2015 Making Movies released Klaus Härö's (the winner of the Crystal Bear award in Berlinale 2003 and the Ingmar Bergman prize in Sweden 2004) latest feature film The Fencer as well as Markku Lehmuskallio's and Anastasia Lapsui's (seven films in different Berlinale sections over the last 30 years) new feature film Tsamo. We have in development several feature and documentary films and in autumn 2015 we shot Selma Vilhunen's (Oscar nominee 2014 for the best short film) debut feature film Little Wing. In 2016 we will shoot debut feature Law of the Land by Jussi Hiltunen.The documentaries produced or co-produced by Making Movies include many award winning films like Happiness, (Sundance Documentary competition 2014, world rights sold to Universal Pictures) and A Decent Factory (IDFA 2004) by Thomas Balmés, In the Dark (2004) by Sergey Dvortsevoy, Love & Engineering (Tribeca, Hotdocs, Visions du Réel, Karlovy Var, Sarajevo 2014) and Rules of Single Life (Sarajevo International Film Festivals, Sofia International Film Festivals 2012) by Tonislav Hristovand Look of Silence (Venice, Tiburon, Toronto 2014, Berlinale 2015) by Joshua Oppenheimer. Hide
