‘Icebox’ Helmer Daniel Sawka Sets Autism Spectrum Romcom for Newen’s Anagram Sweden (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAnnika Pham Swedish writer-director Daniel Sawka, whose debut feature “Icebox” was produced by Hollywood’s legendary James L.
Brooks, snatching more than 4 million unique views on HBO, will be pitching his sophomore pic “Two People Who Fall in Love” at the Nordic Co-Production showcase in Haugesund, Norway, Variety has learned in exclusivity.The upcoming romcom, made in Swedish, is being produced by the Newen Group’s banner and talents incubator Anagram Sweden, credited for Disney+’s first Nordic original “To Cook a Bear” and the Venice Critics Week winner “East, Sleep, Die.” Penned by Sawka, “Two People Who Fall in Love” is “a romantic dramedy about a young couple on the autism spectrum who try to answer life’s most difficult question: What the hell do you do when you fall in love,” states the logline.
As with the helmer’s 2018 Toronto Discovery sensation “Icebox” – which was Sawka’s American Film Institute graduation short expanded under Brooks’ guidance into a feature – “Two People Who Fall in Love” draws from the helmer’s personal life.
Sawka’s own Polish father’s forced immigration to Sweden in the late 60s, was the starting point for “Icebox”’, a harrowing drama about a child migrant trapped in the U.S.
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