Facts & Figures 2016

17. may 2016. FACTS & FIGURES. Which projects did the Danish Film Institute support in 2015? Which films were the biggest box-office draw? Find data about film production and distribution in Denmark in our…

Drama Darling in production

17. may 2016 | IN PRODUCTION. Danica Curcic stars in Birgitte Stærmose's second feature, "Darling."

Global Impact of Danish Drama Series - A Peripheral, Non-commercial Creative Counter-Flow

13. may 2016. PEER REVIEWED. In recent years Danish TV series have experienced a global export boom. This article maps the regional and global export patterns over the last fifteen years in order to assess the…

True Comediennes: A Case Study of Comedy Verité and Performance of the Self in the Danish TV Series Ditte & Louise

13. may 2016. PEER REVIEWED. How does the comedy series Ditte & Louise merge real-life elements with fictional storytelling? The focus of this article is to examine, in relation to contemporary theories of…

The Danish Way to do it the American Way

13. may 2016. PEER REVIEWED. This article critically discusses two seemingly contradictory explanations as to what turned the Danish main public broadcaster DR’s TV series into an international success story,…

Sensation in Serial Form - High-end Television Drama and Trigger Plots

13. may 2016. The main interest of this article is to discuss the aesthetics of high-end television drama, drawing on two series with a pan-Scandinavian production identity, Acquitted and Occupied. Of key interest…

Production Design and Location in the Danish Television Drama Series The Legacy

13. may 2016. Television fiction is most often referred to as the writer’s medium, whereas feature film is generally perceived as the vision and work of the director. In this article we turn our focus to the role…

Virtual Reality Mother-Daughter Drama

04. may 2016. Johan Knattrup Jensen and Mads Damsbo have been invited to join Cannes' NEXT programme with "Ewa," a virtual reality film about a girl’s life from birth to adulthood providing a cinematic experience…

Crossing Borders Pays Off in So Many Ways

04. may 2016 | INTERVIEW. Mikkel Jersin is headed to Cannes as Producer on the Move. Here he talks about the many gifts that come with adopting a "cross-border" approach to film production.

No Way She Will Make A Film without Me

04. may 2016 | INTERVIEW. Katja Adomeit loves the creative side of producing and never tires of finding new ideas, new partnerships and new production concepts to make films that really matter, whether they are made in…