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Geitekillingen som kunne telle til ti (The Little Goat Who Counted to Ten)

My music for GEITEKILLINGEN has been nominated for a CRYSTAL PINE AWARD in the category of “Best Original Score for a Short Film” at International Sound & Film Music Festival – ISFMF 2016 in Rovinj, Croatia, and a FIMUCINEMA award in the category of “Best Score for a Short Film“ at Fimucité Festival 2016 in Tenerife, Spain!

Original score from the 2015 Norwegian animated short film “Geitekillingen som kunne telle til ti” directed by Hans Jørgen Sandnes. Music composed and produced by Jan Morgenstern.

Life on a Scandinavian farm may not be what you traditionally expect to be a hotbed for radical ideas, but all it takes is a little goat with a recently-acquired skill of counting to ten and a bunch of animals who would really rather just tend to chewing grass rather than being counted, and you have all the ingredients for a bona fide “culture clash.”

With his 1957 story “Geitekillingen som kunne telle til ti” – The Little Goat Who Could Count to Ten –, Norwegian author Alf Prøysen successfully blended a delightful and educational children’s tale with a pointed, satirical commentary on how a conservative society responds to new ideas. Almost 60 years after his original radio broadcast, Norwegian public TV broadcaster NRK commissioned director and animator Hans Jørgen Sandnes and his team for the production of a lovingly hand-drawn, animated short film adaptation of the famous source material. After its year-long production time and its impending premiere on national TV, Geitekillingen is set to do the short film festival circuit and, eventually, reach an international audience via TV and BluRay.

”Geitekillingen som kunne telle til ti“ is distributed by NRK and will premiere to Norwegian TV audiences around Christmas 2015.

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