NRH: I haven’t spoke so you can Netflix about this our selves, however, I guess which is really important. And then in reality, that it motion picture doesn’t have any Us americans in it: It’s all “foreign” people in the fresh new documentary, which is a little uncommon for those who have it big hit to your Netflix. And, what’s strange is the swindle musician, the fresh “swindler,” isn’t really from the flick. But still you might tell such regarding your because of the information presented.

As well as the emails and you can cities, getting precisely what goes, come from global. And that i imagine that’s good starting point for good documentary which is revealed in almost any places.

GIJN: Tell us upcoming concerning procedure: Your published your data in 2019. It was a huge hit and you will instantly went viral. How did you go from you to to making an excellent documentary?

Simon [Leviev] is actually away from Israel

KK: Really, I’m able to just begin by saying we were extremely nervous new Saturday we had been posting, wondering: Have a tendency to individuals check this out? Have a tendency to our very own tale enjoy electronically? Is it buggy? However, somewhat early on, we could comprehend the amounts of website subscribers to your magazine website that can tell this is actually a narrative that individuals appreciated to learn. And then we could also come across towards Twitter or any other social network programs that individuals was basically just starting to read it and you can display it. I blogged in both Norwegian plus in English, because i know there was basically lots of places involved. There ended up being [his] conviction within the Finland. The following week i published reports regarding London area, Amsterdam, Ny, and you may Tel Aviv, all the with individuals exactly who told you that they had become cheated inside the really different methods from the Simon Leviev. And thus i did follow-ups. While the tale are stated in lots of more media international.

NRH: Once we had written, i had lots of demands away from some other producers and you may authors, however, we were sometime limiting. We had been proclaiming that it had been Cecilie and you will Pernilla’s choices. It got a manager, as well as got in reach toward development company, whom obtained all of our tale. And you can in the summertime or perhaps in nov 2019, I became contacted of the creation organization, and so they got already made a take on Cecilie and you may Pernilla.

I guess I am simply happier on her that having that it facts to your Netflix, appearing him with his strategies, and having that now proven to the country

KK: After that i started to communicate with the supply providers on which the process could well be, and this taken care of credit the all of our thing to inform the fresh facts, like the region in which i decided to go to Israel, eg. Borrowing by buying. And how we might come in the newest documentary.

GIJN: Precisely how did you browse one? Is actually by using your own businesses, or was it a personal choice, and you will was just about it something that you talked as a consequence of in just about any duration that have Cecilie and you can Pernilla?

NRH: I talked a great deal to the editors here at VG and you can found the maker in addition to manager. As soon as i made a package, we sent them of your procedure which had already been authored. That’s very important. We didn’t provide them with something that was not authored just like the i have a lot of additional information of unpublished provide, however, all this i leftover so you’re able to ourselves. It went along to you from inside the Norway, conference you, getting together with united states, and you may talking for a day. And then shortly after, better, six months later, it performed an interview with our team.

GIJN: As well as how made it happen become to know that somebody is curious for making they into the a documentary and understanding that work create reach eg an extensive audience?

KK: Firstly, it had been necessary for me to give this tale. Whenever Cecilie are speaking-to us, their purpose try for this facts to come out, and stop anybody else away from experiencing the same task since the she got educated of the indicating his steps. And now we were, definitely, happier that our data and you will all of our story you may do that.