Lise Lense-Møller

Producer. Born 31/10 1957. Lise Lense-Møller started out working as an assistant stage director. In the years 1978-81, she took various film classes at the National Film School of Denmark and left the theatre. She entered the film industry as a production and director's assistant in the beginning of the 1980s and supplemented her film classes with a minor subject in English and later Anthropology Studies in 1987-89. After 1990, she has taken a number of international courses in scriptwriting and other film related subjects.

In 1984, she founded her first production company Lise Lense-Møller Film, which changed its name to Magic Hour Films Aps in 1995. Lise Lense-Møller's first production was the documentary "Den skjulte virkelighed" (1988), followed by a couple of feature films, the Polish-Danish co-production "300 Miles to Heaven" (1989) and Morten Henriksen's Tage Skou-Hansen adaptation "The Naked Trees" (1991).

Subsequently, Lense-Møller has primarily focused on producing shorts and documentaries. Among her key documentary productions are "Light, Darkness and Colours" (1998) about Goethe's colour theory, "Can You Die in Heaven?" about a boy diagnosed with cancer, "Burma VJ" (2008) about undercover video journalists in Burma, "Into Eternity" (2010) about a Finnish nuclear waste storage, "The Visit" (2015), a sci-fi vision of man's first encounter with intelligent life from space, and "Tuti a casa – Power to the People?" (2017) about the political protest movement Movimento in Italy. "Burma VJ" was Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary in 2010.

Lense-Møller has also produced several children's films and short films, including "Oswald the Monkey" (2001), "Hands Up!" (1997), "Little Daddy" (2003) and "Op med humøret" (2005).

Lense-Møller has extensive experience in teaching, among others at the National Film School of Denmark and the University of Helsinki, European Film College. She has served as an expert and group leader at EAVE, a MEDIA programme facilitating post-education workshops for independent producers. She has been a board member at the National Film Board, (1990-93), Det Danske Filmstudie (1995-2003) and the Danish Producers Association (1997-2002, 2004-). She has worked as a translator and is co-author of the book "Litterære klassikere på film."

In 1992, Lense-Møller was awarded the talent award "Natsværmerprisen" for her "dedication, resilience, seriousness and an uncompromising commitment to quality films." In 2009, she and director Anders Østergaard received Danish documentary film's prestigious annual award, the Roos Award, for their work on "Burma VJ".