Debut film Team Hurricane to Venice Film Critics' Week

24. jul 2017 | FESTIVAL. Annika Berg's teen drama "Team Hurricane" has been selected for the Venice Film Festival's Critics' Week celebrating emerging talents. The sidebar runs parallel to the festival's official competition…

Films for children and youth in East Africa – A Development Project Evolves

11. jul 2017 | CULTURAL EXCHANGE. It has been 10 years since the Zanzibar Film Festival added its Children & Film Panorama sidebar, aiming to promote film culture and film production for East African children and teens. The…

Winter Brothers in Locarno Competition

03. jul 2017 | FESTIVAL. Hlynur Pálmason's first feature "Winter Brothers" is selected for the main competition, the Concorso internazionale, at the Locarno Festival (2-12 August). The film, which is also a first feature by…

Danish Film Institute will be getting new CEO

30. jun 2017. Danish Film Institute CEO Henrik Bo Nielsen is resigning after 10 years on the job.

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen in New Thriller Series

23. jun 2017 | NEW TV SERIES. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen is playing the lead in "Greyzone," a Danish-Swedish-German co-production. The series, written by Oskar Söderlund and Morten Dragsted, will be shot in Copenhagen, Stockholm and…

Production Design and the Creation of Story Worlds - Introduction

16. jun 2017. This issue of Kosmorama focuses on production design. A film without design would be a film with no images. Every work of visual fiction relies on the representation of design artifacts; costumes,…

Spies at Home – How the design of the domestic interior in "Tinker Tailor Soldier, Spy" conveys character and narrative

16. jun 2017. The home has traditionally implied a safe place often signifying stability, privacy and comfort. However it can also be used to explore fear, where danger resides in the home itself.

PD4C21 - Production Design for the 21st Century

16. jun 2017. This provocation challenges the idea of a single author and linear narrative as industrial-age constructs that have not evolved for the twenty-first century. It introduces world building not only as…

Art Nouveau, Production Design, and the Contemporary Horror Film

16. jun 2017. This article explores the relationship between the contemporary horror film and Art Nouveau design, mise-en-scène, and thematic. In the era of Art Nouveau’s ascendancy, around the turn of the 20th…

Aesthete and Documentarian Turns 80

14. jun 2017 | MILESTONE. Jørgen Leth is a singular figure in Danish documentary film. The filmmaker and renaissance man turns 80 on 14 June.