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…

An Outsider's Observations

04. may 2016 | INTERVIEW. Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat's first feature, Danish-produced "Wolf and Sheep," was inspired by her feeling of being an outsider during her childhood in a small isolated village in Central…

Pushing the Boundaries With Refn

04. may 2016 | INTERVIEW. "I have to feel like we are exploring the borders of what's been done before," says producer Lene Børglum about her creative partnership with Nicolas Winding Refn with whom she's worked with since…

The Obsession With Beauty

04. may 2016 | INTERVIEW. "Beauty isn't everything, it's the only thing," states a character in Nicolas Winding Refn's "The Neon Demon," following an aspiring model in Los Angeles, where she's up against mountain lions as…

Many Faces of Mads

04. may 2016 | PROFILE. Mads Mikkelsen is used to being judged for his performances. However, as a member of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, he's the one doing the judging for once. This new role provides the perfect…

Mads Mikkelsen in Cannes Jury

28. apr 2016. Mads Mikkelsen joins the Cannes Competition Jury, headed by director George Miller. The actor was just appointed Knight of the highest French distinction for Artists.