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“Camping in Paradise” winning the Academy Award® Qualifying Narrative Short Jury Award at the 2024 Santa Fe International Film Festival.

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Same team as the one behind the live action short film, Night ride, that was Oscar® nominated in 2023, (director Eirik Tveiten and producers Gaute Lid Larssen and Heidi Arnesen at Cylinder Production AS)

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Their last projects together, the live action short film Camping in Paradise, have won the jury award at Santa Fe International Film Festival in the United States. The festival has officially been recognized by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences as an Oscar® qualifying event.

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STARRING:
Espen Alknes, Oddrun Valestrand, Mona Grenne and Stig Henrik Hoff.

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Director: Eirik Tveiten

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DOP: Torstein Nodland

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Producers: Gaute Lid Larssen og Heidi Arnesen

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Production company: Cylinder Production AS. www.cylinder.no

Press contact/Heidi Arnesen: post@cylinder.no/

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Berlin Kiez Film Festival has added a note to your submission:

What an amazing short film. Brilliantly executed in every way, including acting, pace, story, writing

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“Camping in Paradise” : A philosopher and his girlfriend involuntarily spends a night at a nudist campsite, which is farbeyond their comfort zone. At the campsite they meet a friendly couple, and this revealsunderlying conflicts and creates tension in their relationship.

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Santa Fe International Film Festival Announces 2024 Award Winners and Celebrates Cinematic Excellence

 The Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFiFF) announced today the recipients of this year’s juried awards, recognizing the outstanding achievements of filmmakers across all categories. The SFiFF 2024 jury has honored these visionary creators for their exceptional cinematic craftsmanship and storytelling. This year also marks the first time the winners of the Best Animated Short, Best Narrative Short, and Best Documentary Short categories at the festival will be eligible for Oscar submission.

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OUR STATEMENT
A principal of a Florida school has been forced to resign after a parent complained that sixth-grade students were exposed to pornography. The complaint arose from a Renaissance art lesson where students were shown Michelangelo’s statue of David. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65071989.amp

If two marble stone balls on one of the world’s greatest masterpieces can be categorized as pornography, the future needs more films like Camping in paradise, showing that the natural body doesn’t do any harm to anything else than dirty minds.
(Gaute Lid Larssen/Producer/Cylinder)

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PRESS NOTES CAMPING IN PARADISE
“Camping in Paradise” synopsis: A philosopher and his girlfriend involuntarily spends a night at a nudist campsite, which is farbeyond their comfort zone. At the campsite they meet a friendly couple, and this revealsunderlying conflicts and creates tension in their relationship.

About the director, Erik Tveiten:
Eirik worked as an actor before he made the debut as a stage writer with «The cactus» in 1997. In2010 he wrote and directed the acclaimed short film «Friendly people». Since then, he has writtenand directed 14 short films. His work includes different genres and stretches from high realism tostylized comedy. His latest film, «Night ride» won best Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival 2022and has been well received at festivals worldwide. “Night Ride” has a total of 11 wins thus farincluding an Oscar nomination. Eirik is currently in development with a feature film project. «Camping in paradise» explores a sincere theme concerning the dynamicsof shame and fear in intimate relationships. I adore stories that combine humor with seriouspsychological and philosophical questions. Nudity appears as a meaningful metaphor for how -and in what ways – we express ourselves, communicate, and wish to be seen and treated in arelationship. This film does not shy away from showing nudity, as I am concerned that the nakedbody is increasingly becoming taboo – or an object of sexualization in media and society.Hopefully this is a story that will stir up some controversy and be meaningful as well as enjoyedand interpreted in various ways.

Cylinder Productions AS
Cylinder Production AS is a film production company established in year 2000. Based in Oslo,Norway, Cylinder has produced commercials for Norwegian and international markets, severaldocumentaries for TV and co-produced an international feature film with support from NorwegianFilm Fund and Eurimage. In addition to producing our own films, Cylinder offers a completepackage of professional services to international companies choosing to shoot in Norway. Wehave access to the most professional crew, talent and equipment rental houses, at verycompetitive rates. Cylinder was Oscar® nominated for their short film production «Night Ride»which won best short film at Tribeca in 2022.

Producer Gaute Lid Larssen.
Gaute Lid Larssen is the producer of Camping in paradise. Founder and managing director of the Oscar® nominated film production company Cylinder Production AS, established in year 2000. Directed and produced commercials, TV-documentaries, infomercials, short films and TV-drama. Background from NRK (Norwegian broadcasting corporation) as a radio presenter and secondunit director in some of the largest TV-drama productions in Norway. Oscar® nominated in 2023 for the live action short film “Night Ride”. Directed 240 episodes of “Hotel Cæsar“, the longestrunning drama series in Scandinavia. Winner in category “best tv-drama“ at Gullruten (NorwegianEmmy Award). Directed the documentary film “Ability of affection“ for TV2, produced “Gynt of ourstreet“ in collaboration with NRK, a docu-drama where drug addicted people are doing HenrikIbsen’s playwright “Peer Gynt“. Senior production executive for “Essential killing”, internationalfeature, starring Vincent Gallo. Winner of “Special Jury Prize at the 67th Venice International FilmFestival“. Executive producer/facilitator for Cylinder’s service productions, producing for BBC,CBS, Al Jazeera, among others.

Producer Heidi Arnesen
Heidi Arnesen graduated with a bachelor in fine arts from CCA in California. From there she madea feature film (Some Prefer Cake), 8 short films, 150 episodes of the Norwegian night time drama“Hotel Cæsar” and several TV documentary series for Norwegian networks, one of which sold toDr. Phil in the US. This is one of two Norwegian formats to be sold to the US. She lived in SanFrancisco, CA for 9 years before relocating to her hometown of Oslo in 1998. She has been apartner in Cylinder Production AS for 10 years and produced the Oscar® nominated short «NightRide» together with Gaute lid Larssen