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My mission in life and art is fairly simple. I’m terrified of simple truths and black and white views. I aim to create characters and stories that carry complexity and ambivalence, and I want to do this in a beautiful and entertaining way. I combine the absurd with everyday reflections and in doing so I think I’ve found my style and mission.

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I write and direct theater, film and television, and I also write prose and participate in the podcasts Morgansoffan and Stollar Bollar. I supervise projects and am the head teacher at Alma scriptwriting training. My great interest is about the nature of consciousness and how we transform experience into art and stories. This connects all parts of my work. I now live in both Lucca, Italy and Gothenburg, Sweden. Under the tabs of this website you can read more about, for example, Books, Film and Education.

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GOOD NEWS

Soon streaming: THE PORTRAIT

PORTRÄTTET / THE PORTRAIT

ABOUT THE FILM

The Portrait is inspired by Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage, but here the parties are not married to each other but to others, which creates the film's moral dilemma. THE PORTRAIT is a chamber play about falling into passion in the midst of life, choosing to stay apart because both are in other relationships, and then reuniting to unravel what really happened. Can love survive time and space?
The film Portrait is about elusive memories, but also about how artists use the outside world and each other to transform personal experience into art.

ACTORS

Malin Morgan and Lars Andersson.

Malin Morgan IMDb

Lars Andersson IMDb

A film by Golaleh Azad and Petra Revenue. Music: Björn Knutsson Text to songs: Karin Blixt. Foto: Fabian Engström. Script: Petra Revenue. Editor: Golaleh Azad. sounddesign: Anders Billing. Underwaterfoto and bookcover: Tobias Dahlin. soundteknik: Sara Alexandersson.

Media about the Portrait after work-in-progress viewings:

Excerpt from an interview with Maria Domelöf, GP.
"Iris is planning to marry her partner and wants to find out what Henry is after - deep down. So she accepts the proposal, and travels to the artist's studio.  What I want to explore is what kind of fantasies they have about each other, exactly as Iris says: "It feels like there are four people in here: you and
my image of you, and me and your fantasy of me." "What images do we project on each other when it comes to love and desire - and when does the drive turn into unhealthy obsession?...At the same time, she artistically digs further into the dark labyrinths of intimacy, which resulted in the book "Nämare Nu" and the film "The Portrait"."

A review by  Kulturtidskriften BOBORG after a special screening: "...There is a deliberate script but it is up to the actors to bring it to life. Malin Morgan plays Iris. She is a skilled actor who can turn her face and figure into a scene. There we see all the conflicting emotions her character carries and deals with in that incompatible way we humans try to bring together in our lives. Lars Andersson makes Henry a person with self-awareness, or rather the lack of it... ...He makes Henry a person with a romantic view of life and above all of art. I really enjoy both of their performances.... The experienced actors have the ability to let feelings of doubt, surprise and anguish fill the situation with life and drama. And much of the film's quality is based on the fact that it works so well...These are beautiful and difficult images that here become a metaphor for memory...There are also scenes of artists working and moving toward their subject with intuitive purposefulness. It provides a connection between art and life."

A review by journalist Kai Martin https://kaimartinblog.com "In the film "The Portrait", Henry (Lars Andersson) and Iris (Malin Morgan) meet up after ten years and the meeting turns into a conversation.
Petra Revenue is responsible for the script and together with Golaleh Azad she has directed.
Björn Knutsson has created atmospheric and beautiful music, which was recently awarded at the Cannes Art Fest for best composer.
For those who are expecting a passionate encounter, "The Portrait" will be a disappointment.
Yes, there is a closeness in Iris and Henry's relationship. But it is also a love that is both distant and close, but never close to the skin.
It is the conversation that is central. How they reflect the meeting from then now, and how the expectations from that time live in completely different ways now.
Both in relationships – she is about to get married, he in a secure relationship he does not want to break – but with an attraction and longing for what never was, but perhaps should have been.
She with a fragile heart, after a heart attack. He with a somewhat romanticized image of what it was like ten years ago, something that may suddenly blossom again.
They do not unite, but still end up in awkward embraces. Because it is the conversation that is the spinning engine of the story.
Lars Andersson and Malin Morgan have a nice presence and tone, they never overplay or spill over emotions.
Yes, there are traces of Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage", a rumination that oscillates between seriousness and laughter, nonsense and outrage. And yes, "The Portrait" calls for further conversations.
From each persons own experiences."

NEW NOVEL out in January 2024. 

SHORT ON PETRAS PROFESSIONAL LIFE

SCRIPTCONSULTING AND TEACHING

Petra Revenue is the headteacher at ALMA Manusutbildning. Alma is a school for professional screenwriters, she also gives private courses in Sweden and Italy. Petra Revenue works regularly with filmcompanies as a script consultant.

Image from Alma script education's collaboration with Netflix. I worked as a dramaturg with 6 projects in Lucca, Italy.

" I teach dramaturgy and screenwriting at advanced level. Previously only for screenwriters, but now writers working in different genres take the course, as well as artists interested in storytelling.
I have been the main teacher for 7 years at Alma writingacademy based in Sweden.
I work with several film regions in Sweden and for the past year have also worked with Alma's and Netflix's writing academy's talent development. First with Nordic writers and now in collaboration with the Sami Film Institute.
My courses in Lucca are an immersion in projects that writers and artists want to take to the next level. Feedback is on an individual basis, I also lecture on dramaturgical models."

BACKGROUND

Before becoming a writer, Revenue studied social anthropology and is interested in what ties people together across language and cultural borders. Between 1990-2020 she was one of the artistic directors at Theater Trixter in her hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden. 

SELECTED WORK

Since her theatrical debut, Petra Revenue has written some twenty plays, several of which have received critical acclaim. These include The Least You Can Ask For (bilingual, Farsi/Swedish), The Dancer’s Woman (multicultural ensemble) and Valkyria (radio play that premiered on Swedish National Radio P1). When the war came to Partille (Stadsteatern in Gothenborg) and The secret ingredient (created by 300 collected dreams with co-writer Karin Blixt)

The play Bardo was created in Iraqi/kurdistan, where she has a long-term collaboration with the Kurdish Fine Art Society. She also did television in the region on the subject of women, honor and courage.

In 2006 Revenue’s first book was published, a collection of short stories nominated for Swedish National Radio’s Short Story Award, an award that she won in 2009 with “The Best View” (originally published in an anthology for the humanitarian fundraising drive, Children of the World). She has continued to write in all genres.

Kurdish tv/ Iraq.

Revenue began to write for film and television with the TV drama The Big Theater for Swedish National Television (SVT) 2001. Since then she has written a wild mix, from screenplays for Henning Mankell’s Wallander to her own debut feature film Almost Elvis, where for the first time she combined her two genres film and theatre. Almost Elvis was selected for Sao Paulo Film Festival and the Mexico International Film Festival among others. Also shown on Swedish television, canal+...among other channels. She wrote the script for the film The Ice Dragon. Among other festivals it was entered in competition at the youth section of the Berlinale. 

Meaty Marta Märta Proppmätt

Bio 2017  Svt 2018

Credits as writer and director.

I created Märtas world with Samir Arabzadeh. Producent: Annika Hellström Cininicfilm i samarbete med Slimsumo studios Peter Björklund.

Meaty Marta, an animated film about the hungriest goldfish in the universe. For children 3–6 years old. 2017. Take a look here.

Märta at Buffilusk-tour. Meaty Marta was picked to be shown at hospitals around Europe. 2018

BLÅ ÖGON  

SVT 10 tim Drama Svt 2014-2015

Credits as creator. Revenue co-created Blue Eyes, a 10-hour dramaseries for TV about the neo Nazi movement in Europe. Shown 2015–1016

ISDRAKEN/ The Icedragon

Credits as screenwriter

Link to Trailer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYN_uCj_pc

Director: Marin Högdahl. Producer Peter Hiltunen Illusion Film.

Having fun at Berlinale 2011

Some of the Festivals Göteborg 27/1-6/2 youth-section Berlinale 9-19/2 Generation Kplus (in competition) Montreal children 3-12/3 (in competition) Buff 13-17/3 (in comp) Winner best film Kristiansand 24-28/4 (opening film) Newport Beach 26/4-3/5 Palic Serbia 14-20/7 Tel Aviv children 22-27/7 Winner best film youth jury + Winner best film adult jury Espoo Finland 17-26/8 Haugesund 17-23/8 Seoul youth 23-29/8 Nueva Mirada Buenos Aires 30/8-5/9 (in comp.)Lucas Frankfurt 2-9/9 Nordkapp 12-16/9 Buster Copenhagen 13-23/9 Festroia 21-30/9 Hamburg 27/9-6/10 Jerusalem/Ramallah 11-18/10 Cine Sparks Brisbane 15-20/10 Cinekid 17-26/10 wants to show Washington kids 17/10-13/11 Filem’on Brussels 28/10-4/11 Lübeck 31/10-4/11 Tallinn Black Nights 13-28/11+ Tallinn Just Film Kinodissea Rumänien 16-21/11 (in comp)Castellinaria 17-24/11 Olympia Athens 1-8/12

Den bästa utsikten/ THE BEST VIEW

Credits as writer and director.

Shortfilm (28 min) about a womans right to move around naked 2 hours a day, and how much joy an act like that can bring to a segregated area.

The Best view has been shown on Swedish television and won the award of honor at Gothenburg filmfestival. It was part of Svt "novellfilmsatsning".

Production: Annika Hellström Cinenic och Martin Persson Anagram

Karaokekungen/ Almost Elvis

Credits as writer and director.

Production; Annika Hellström Cinenic och Martin Persson Anagram

Karaokekungen, ALMOST ELVIS, was selected for Exground Filmfest, Nov. 13-22-2009, Wiesbaden, Germany. Karaokekungen, ALMOST ELVIS, was selected for competition at Sao Paulo Filmfestival 25 oct – 5 nov 2009, Brasil. Karaokekungen, ALMOST ELVIS, was selected for competition at Mexikos internationella filmfestival  Filmfestival maj 2011

Här kan du se Karaokekungen

CRIME- WALLANDER 

Credits as screenwriter 2 episodes

Om Sara

Credits as co-writer

 Stora teatern The Big Theater

A surreal tale about life on a theater. (4 hours for Svt)

Credits as screenwriter

Revenue co-created Blue Eyes, a 10-hour dramaseries for TV about the neo Nazi movement in Europe. Shown 2015–1016

ART

Petra took part in Love Explosion, a group exhibition at Göteborgs konsthall, Gothenburgs artmuseum 2013 with her installation Fysical Evidence about her fathers death in Thailand.

Residencies

https://www.i-a-m.tk/  BERLIN 2014

http://www.samritresidency.com/residency-blog/blog-from-petra-revenue-writer-and-filmmaker-sweden  THAILAND 2017