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Iceland’s Glassriver is gearing up to shoot the second season of its hit series Black Sands, from showrunner Baldvin Z.
The partners again on board for the second season are Iceland’s Channel 2, All3Media, which handles international rights, Belgium’s Lunanime and VRT, and Finland’s YLE.
The first season sold well – including to Viaplay with rights in several European territories and the US (where the show launched on July 20), Alibi for the UK, Disney+ for the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Canal+ for Poland, SBS in Australia, AXN Mystery Channel in Japan, Pumpkin Film in China, and Upstream Media in the Philippines.
The show’s writers are Baldvin Z, Ragnar Jonsson and Aldis Amah Hamilton, now also joined by Elias Kofoed Hansen.
Arnbjorg Haflidadottir is producing the eight-part dark romantic crime drama, which will shoot from August.
The character-driven story is about a police detective, played by Aldis Amah Hamilton, who is forced to confront her past as she investigates a series of mysterious deaths in her hometown on the south coast of Iceland. The second season will follow her struggles to raise her daughter and deal with postpartum depressive disorder as she raises it.
Baldvin says, “The second half of Blacksands continues right where the first season ended. The first episode is more like episode 9 than episode 1 of a new show. Ragnar is a bloodstain pattern specialist with the Reykjavik Metropolitan police department and one of Iceland’s leading forensic investigators. Ragnar has worked as a bloodstain pattern specialist with the Reykjavik Metropolitan police department and is one of the country’s leading forensic investigators.”
Baldvin Z had directed the whole first season, and for season two Alfheidur Marta Kjartansdottir (first AD on the first series who has also worked on The Minister) and Erlendur Sveinsson (award-winning short Kanari) are also directing two episodes each, alongside Baldvin’s four episodes.
New cast joining for season two include Halldora Geirhardsdottir, whose credits include
Woman At War, Solveig Arnarsdottir, Olafi Hronn and Erla Ruth. Baldvin Z has explained that the second season will be the finale of
Black Sands. He told Screen, “I really wanted to do the second season because we did map out the whole story in the beginning. It felt like a half-done project. Especially because in the end it tells an important story, one that is rarely told in TV shows like Black Sands.”Glassriver’s other series include
Fractures, Ordinary People, Journey, My Funeral and the forthcoming As Long As We Live.Baldvin Z’s past feature films include local box office hits
Let Me Fall, which premiered in Toronto, Jitters and Life In A Fishbowl.German film festivals criticise government cuts to the Berlinale amid speculation about its future
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