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All articles by Jacob Wendt Jensen – Page 3
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Scherfig returns to Danish film-making with Hjemve
Lone Scherfig isshooting in Denmark again for the first time since making her 2000 dogma hit Italian For Beginners. She will be onthe island of Funen working on a project entitled Hjemve, which can be translated as "longing for home" although anofficial international title hasn't been set yet. The film ...
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Copenhagen gives top award to 12.08 East Of Bucharest
As the CopenhagenInternational Film Festival wrapped, Romanian feature 12.08 East Of Bucharest won the Golden Swans for best film and bestscript. Corneliu Porumbiou's darkly comic project about Romania just before thefall of the Ceausescu dictatorship previously won the Camera d'Or and theEuropa Cinemas Label in Cannes. The Copenhagen jury,which judged ...
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Lars von Trier to shoot horror project next summer
Only hours after the worldpremiere of Lars von Trier's The Boss Of It All at the Copenhagen International Film Festivallast Thursday, the maverick director has announced his next film. Moving fromthe comedy of The Boss OfIt All, he will next tackle horror in Antichrist.The project was announced forthe first time ...
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Thuesen starts shoot for Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years
Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years starts shooting today in Denmark with newdirector Jacob Thuesen at the helm after previously attached Lone Scherfigdropped out of the project several months ago. Zentropa isproducing the $5.2m (Euros 4.1m) feature with co-producers Memfis Film, DOR Film, Lucky Red and Tju-Bang Film. Lars von ...
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Princess team sets up new Danish production company
Danish producer SaritaChristensen and director Anders Morgenthaler, the team behind this year's Cannesanimation title Princess, have brokenaway from Zentropa to establish their own company to deliver cutting-edgeentertainment for kids and families. The new production company's name will be Copenhagen/Bombay."There wasn't enoughspace for all the talent at Zentropa in one company ...
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Copenhagen selects competitors for fourth, later festival
The fourthCopenhagen International Film Festival (Sept 21 to Oct 1) is spearheaded by tenEuropean films competing for the Golden Swan Awards. The jury of Robby Muller,Pawel Pawlikowski, Greta Scacchi, Kornel Mundruczo and Danish actress GhitaNorby will be judging the following films in competition: Mouth To Mouth (Bjorn Runge, Sweden)Happy As ...
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Zentropa plans seven low-budget genre features
Danish production company Zentropa has created a new low-budget genre scheme called Perestrojka. The project will support seven genre films for a total of $12.8m (Euros 10m), or about $1.8m each. Zentropa introduced the idea in Cannes and has fully financed the first film under the scheme, Anders Morgenthalers' Ekko. ...
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Kirsten Dalgaard to leave Camera for Nordisk
Thismonth, Kirsten Dalgaard will leave her job as head ofCamera Film, Denmark's leading art-housedistributor, to join Nordisk Film.Asof August 1, Dalgaard will begin a new position in the new sales and marketing division of Nordisk, which is expanding its work with independentfilms. "Ilook forward to continue working with art-house movies ...
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Half of Zentropa up for sale to employees
Asthey both celebrated their 50th birthdays in May, Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbaek Jensenhave given a lot of thought to the future of Zentropa,the Danish film production company they founded in 1992.Withtheir five associate partners, von Trier and Jensenhave decided to sell half of the company to directors and ...
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Thomas Vinterberg plans Danish comedy
After twointernational projects -- It's All About Love and Dear Wendy -- Thomas Vinterberg will return to Denmark to shoothis next feature, a comedy entitled A Man Comes Home."I'm making a Danishmovie with all my friends and it's gonna be a rather silly film about sex, loveand foolishness in general," ...
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Danish director Simon Staho readies third feature
For his third feature Simon Staho is rounding up an impressive cast of Danish film andtheatre actors. The shoot of DaisyDiamond is scheduled to begin on May 22.The romantic drama stars Sofie Grabol (Accused), Trine Dyrholm(A Soap), Sonja Richter (Open Hearts) and Jens Albinus among others. Albinus willalso star in ...
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Two segments dropped from Cannes film Paris Je T'aime
ProducerClaudie Ossard from Victoires International has restructured the portmanteau Un Certain Regard opening title Paris Je t'Aime, with the contributionsfromDanish director Christoffer Boe and French-Israeli director RafaelNadjari left on the cutting-room floor.The decision has gone down badly with Boe, who hasreleased an angry statement.Thedecision has also sparked a disagreement with ...
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Zentropa goes solo in Danish distribution
Zentropa willdistribute its own films in Denmark starting from this autumn. For some yearsthey have had an unusually friendly deal with primary Danish competitor in filmproduction, Nordisk Film, about distributing Zentropa's films. Nordisk willstill send out the next couple of Zentropa movies, but in future PeterAalbaek Jensen and Lars von ...
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Demme's Neil Young film takes prize at Denmark's NATfilm
Denmark's NATfilmfestival wrapped Sunday with its audience award going to Jonathan Demme's concert film NeilYoung: Heart of Gold. The film gets a prize of about $20,560 (17,000 Euro)for Danish theatrical distribution support. The award also includes a TV deal withlocal public broadcaster DR. TV5MONDE-Critics' award, which carries a prize ...
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Denmark's NATfilm festival promises record screenings
Denmark's 17th edition of the NATfilm whichopens on Friday, (24 March- 9 April) will be showing a record number of 165 moviesfrom around the world. This audience festival attracts a good number of peoplewith ticket sales usually around the 40,000 mark with screenings in Copenhagen,Odense, Århus and Aalborg and Malmö ...
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Per Fly's Manslaughter wins best film at Bodil Awards
Per Fly's last instalment of his class trilogy,Manslaughter, cleaned up on Sundaynight at the Bodil Awards in Copenhagen. The Danish Association of Film Critics Awardsare amongst the most prestigious along with the RobertAwards. Manslaughter won Best Film, Best Actor and Best femalesupporting actress. Jesper Christensen, who is alsoknown for the ...
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Anders Thomas Jensen wins Robert award for Best Film
The Danish Film Academy handed out its annualRobert awards in Copenhagen last night. Anders Thomas Jensen's Adam's Apples scored four awards withPer Fly's Manslaughter taking homethree. The winning films were also two of the big commercial successes at theDanish box office in 2005 with 355.689 and 393.239 tickets sold.Although Anders ...
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Danish box-office takings down just 1.85%
Danish box office takings for 2005 were $125m(103,230,809 Euros), a drop of 1.85% on 2004's record year. This slight declinebucks the trend for the box office across Europe which saw all territories substantiallydown such as Germany with an 18.1% drop and Spain down by 12.7%. Local films did extremely well ...
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A big boost for the Copenhagen Film Fund
Producers with a keen eye for Copenhagen might want to look more closely towards the Danishcapital in a year or so. In January 2007 The Copenhagen Film Fund willbe operational with an annual budget of $6.5m (5.5m Euros). The aim of the fundis to attract international film productions to the ...
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Hella Joof to direct a slew of films
Popular Danishdirector Hella Joof hassigned to direct two Nordic features in 2006. First up is the Swedish drama Lina's Diary, (Under Ombygning) its preliminaryinternational title with a budget of $1.2-$2.1m (1-1.8m Euros). SF will beproducing. It is based onthe true story of a teenager's struggles with alcohol, from ...