Growth Spurt

12. may 2010. Danish animation studios are on fire these days. Never before have so many Danish animated features been in production at one time.

Make it Again Sam

12. may 2010. Hollywood in recent years has acquired the rights to remake a number of Danish films. Is Hollywood running out of stories? And how do the Danish filmmakers relate to the American versions of the film?

No Monkey Business

12. may 2010. Shortly after graduating from the National Film School of Denmark in 2008, animation director Jan Rahbek pitched an idea at the Nordisk Film & TV Fond's Talent Pitch and won. Suddenly, Rahbek was…

Teaming Up with Beijing

12. may 2010. Veteran producer Nina Crone is making Freddy Frogface, a stereoscopic 3Danimated feature from the children's book classic by Ole Lund Kirkegaard, in partnership with animation studios in Beijing.

Was Dreyer a Sadist?

12. may 2010 | DREYER. On more than one occasion, Dreyer was labeled a sadistic director, because he caused his female leads to suffer in his tireless search of the sublime. One of the gems from the Dreyer archives is an…

Danish films to Cannes

07. may 2010 | CANNES 2010. Competing in Semaine de la Critique this year is Janus Metz' documentary drama Armadillo and Daniel Joseph Borgman's short fiction Berik. Moreover the Swedish-Danish coproduction Sound of Noise, by…

'Quotas Are For Fish'

04. may 2010. Winning awards, making headlines, gaining international recognition – Danish women directors are doing exceptionally well right now. But is gender really still an issue?

Art Meeting The Market

04. may 2010 | PROFILE. Christian Rank, Danish Producer on the Move, loves quirky films. He believes that small films can learn from the market orientation of big productions. No matter how specialised a film is, it’s still…

Back to Basics

04. may 2010 | OPINION. I'm not completely sure of the origin of the statement “the best film act in the world", nor whether it's absolutely true, but the fact remains that people ask us all the time: What's the secret…

Tenderness for the Characters

04. may 2010. Why doesn't Marjorie, Jenny's mother in "An Education", have a sewing machine? And why does Olympia from "Italian for Beginners" drop so many scones? There is always a story behind the story when…