Den Danske Filmskole
   HOME





Den Danske Filmskole
The National Film School of Denmark () is an independent institution under the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs. It was established in 1966 and is based on Holmen in the harbour of Copenhagen. History The National Danish Film School was established in 1966 under the Danish Film Institute with and Jens Christian Lauritzen as the driving forces and the latter as the institution's first principal. In 1988 the school became an independent institution and in 1998 the school—until then spread out on several addresses—relocated to its current premises on Holmen as part of the Danish Centre for Artistic Educations. Courses There are seven study programmes available: fiction directing, documentary directing, cinematography, script writing, editing, sound, animation and games directing, and film producing. The number of students is 96: 60 film students, 6 scriptwriters, 18 TV students and 12 animation directors. All courses are 4-year programmes, except the animation and gam ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Vikings, Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. During the 16th century, the city served as the ''de facto'' capital of the Kalmar Union and the seat of the Union's monarchy, which governed most of the modern-day Nordic countries, Nordic region as part of a Danish confederation with Sweden and Norway. The city flourished as the cultural and economic centre of Scandinavia during the Renaissance. By the 17th century, it had become a regional centre of power, serving as the heart of the Danish government and Military history ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Christian Holten Bonke
Christian Holten Bonke (born 13 August 1973, Fredericia) is a Danish documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. He has directed music videos, commercials and documentary series for television, most recently ''Uffe’s Alternative.'' (2 episodes, DR 2015). He was educated at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating in 2005. His film ''Ballroom Dancer'' (2011), won several awards from around the world. The film is a documentary portrait of a retired ballroom dancer, who attempts to return to the world elite; a quest with a high personal cost. This gives Bonke the opportunity to work with a variety of dramatic and visual tricks, perhaps more typical from feature film. We see examples of this in ''First Love'' (2007), ' and ''Ejersbo''. In the TV documentary ''Uffe's Alternative'', he follows politician Uffe Elbæk with his camera in the hectic period from the formation of the party The Alternative in November 2013, through to the June 2015 general election. The film joins the do ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Lone Scherfig
Lone Scherfig () (born 2 May 1959) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. She is especially known for her films '' Italian for Beginners'' (2000) and '' An Education'' (2009), and is also known for her romantic comedies, such as '' One Day'' (2011). Early life and education Lone Scherfig graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1984. She initially worked in the advertising business and won awards (including the Lion d'Argent) at the Cannes International Advertising Film Festival. Career 1980s–1990s: beginnings Scherfig began her career as a director with the television film ''Margrethes elsker'' in 1985. Her directorial debut in film came with ''Kaj's fodselsdag''. The film was critically successful and garnered her the Grand Jury prize and the Club Espace Award at the Rouen Nordic Film Festival. For a period of time following such success, Scherfig wrote and directed a few short films, and worked with both radio shows and the stage. She directed the ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Svenska Dagbladet
(, "The Swedish Daily News"), abbreviated SvD, is a daily List of Swedish newspapers, newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden. History and profile The first issue of appeared on 18 December 1884. During the beginning of the 1900s the paper was one of the right-wing publications in Stockholm. Ivar Anderson is among its former editors-in-chief who assumed the post in 1940. The same year was sold by Trygger family to the Enterprise Fund which had been established by fourteen Swedish businessmen to secure the ownership of the paper. The paper is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region. Its Subscription business model, subscribers are concentrated in the capital, but it is distributed in most of Sweden. The paper was one of the critics of the Prime Minister Olof Palme, and in December 1984 it asked him to resign from the office following his interview published in ''Hufvudstadsbl ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Lisa Aschan
Daria Sofia Elisabeth "Lisa" Aschan (born 28 February 1978) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. Aschan went to film school in Stockholm and Denmark. During her studies, she became known for a commercial series called ''Fuck the Rapist!'' about a rape-protection. She worked as a director's assistant before releasing her first feature film, '' Apflickorna'', in 2011, which garnered numerous film festival awards. In 2011, she was also awarded a 5million Swedish kronor award by the Stockholm Film Festival' for her new project, ''Det vita folket (The White People)'', a science fiction-inspired story about government deportation camps. However, Aschan declined the money for the film, which later premiered in 2015. At Sweden's 2016 Guldbaggen Awards, Aschan was filmed in the audience giving the finger to Swedish cinematographer Gösta Reiland who had won the award for Best Cinematography besting Linda Wassberg in the same category for ''Det vita folket''. Early life Asc ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Lars Von Trier
Lars von Trier (né Trier; born 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Beginning in the late-1960s as a child actor working on Danish television series ''Secret Summer'', von Trier's career has spanned more than five decades. Considered a major figure of the European film industry, he and his works have been variously described as ambitious and provocative, as well as technically innovative. His films offer confrontational examinations of Existentialism, existential, social, psychosexual, and political issues, and deal in subjects including mercy, sacrifice, and mental health. He frequently collaborates with the actors Jens Albinus, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgård. Von Trier co-created the avant-garde filmmaking movement Dogme 95 alongside fellow director Thomas Vinterberg and co-founded the Danish film production company Zentropa, the films from which have sold more than 350million tickets and garnered eight Academy Award nominations. Von ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Krass Clement
Krass Clement Kay Christensen (born 15 March 1946) is a Danish photographer who has specialized in documentary work. He graduated as a film director in Copenhagen but soon turned to still photography, publishing his first book ''Skygger af øjeblikke'' (Shadows of the Moment) in 1978. He has since become an active documentary photographer, focusing on people from both Denmark and abroad. His earlier work is black and white but since 2000 he has also worked in colour. Early life Born in 1946, Clement spent much of his childhood in Paris with his father, an artist, and his mother, a pianist. He began to photograph in the late 1950s. After a few freelance jobs in Paris from 1967 to 1970, he studied cinematography at the National Film School of Denmark in 1973. In 1978, he published ''Skygger af øjeblikke'' with themes from Denmark and abroad, establishing his name as a documentary still photographer.Finn Thrane, "Ud i verden og hjem igen", in ''Dansk Fotografi Historie'', ed. Met ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




Kim Fupz Aakeson
Kim Fupz Aakeson (born 1958) is a Danish writer, illustrator, and screenwriter. Early life Kim Fupz Aakeson was born in 1958. Career Aakeson is a Danish writer, illustrator, and screenwriter. He is the co-author of a series of children's books about a character called Vitello, illustrated by Niels Bo Bojesen. Books in the series have been translated into English, with titles such as ''Vitello Wants a Dad'', and ''Vitello Scratches a Car''. Aakeson co-wrote the script for the 2018 film ''Vitello'', along with director Dorte Bengtson. He was a co-writer on the 2020 Danish family drama series '' Cry Wolf'' (''Ulven kommer''), created by Maja Jul Larsen Larsen's script won the 2021 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for scriptwriting at the TV Drama Vision strand at the 2020 Göteborg Film Festival, which was held online. Aakeson's script for the 8-episode Norwegian drama series '' Welcome to Utmark'' (Velkommen til Utmark), produced by Paradox Film 8 for HBO Europe, was nominated fo ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Gyldendal
Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/S, usually referred to simply as Gyldendal (), is a Danish publishing house. Founded in 1770 by Søren Gyldendal, it is the oldest and largest publishing house in Denmark, offering a wide selection of books including fiction, non-fiction and dictionaries. Prior to 1925, it was also the leading publishing house in Norway, and it published all of Henrik Ibsen's works. In 1925, a Norwegian publishing house named Gyldendal Norsk Forlag ("Gyldendal Norwegian Publishing House") was founded, having bought rights to Norwegian authors from Gyldendal. Gyldendal is a public company A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of share capital, stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) co ... and its shares are traded on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange (, ). Gyldendal stopped the print version of their enc ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Katrin Ottarsdóttir
Katrin Ottarsdóttir (born 1957) is a Faroe Islands, Faroese movie director and author. Biography Katrin Ottarsdóttir was born in Tórshavn. While growing up in the Faroes, she did not have television available to her, but enjoyed cinema. She went to Denmark in 1976 and is the first person from the Faroe Islands to study at the film school in Copenhagen, graduating in 1982. In 1989, she received the first prize for a Faroese film at the Nordische Filmtage film festival, for ''Atlantic Rhapsody''. Ottarsdóttir writes her own screenplays and also directs the films. She was both director and producer for ''Atlantic Rhapsody''. Most of the actors in Ottarsdóttir's films are Faroese because the country has a rich theater scene, with many skilled actors available. The Faroe Islands, with their unique landscape, feature prominently in her films. The road movie ''Bye Bye Bluebird'' received top honors in 1999 at Nordische Filmtage and the Tiger Award in 2000 at the International Fi ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Jonas Elmer (director)
Jonas Elmer (born 14 March 1966) is a Denmark, Danish film director, screenwriter and previously an actor. In 1988 he was a production assistant at the set of ''Family Business (1989 film), Family Business'', starring Sean Connery. Elmer graduated in direction at the National Film School of Denmark in 1995. His debut as a director came with the Danish film ''Let's Get Lost (1997 film), Let's Get Lost'' which won him a Robert Award, Robert and Bodil Awards, Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Since then, he has directed the Danish feature films ''Monas verden'' and ''Nynne''. He has also directed 21 episodes of the Danish sit-com ''Langt fra Las Vegas''. He directed his first United States of America, American feature film in 2008, ''New in Town'', starring Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick, Jr, which was released in January 2009. In 2013 he directed the film ''In Real Life'', a production about human desire to have their unmet needs satisfied, and shows their passions, desperatio ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Eva Mulvad
Eva Mulvad (born 1972) is a Danish documentary film director. She graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2001. Eva is a director of documentaries for DR TV since 1997. In 2006 she received IDFA Silver Wolf Award and World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance for '' Enemies of Happiness''. She also was a winner of the 2006 WIFT (Women in Film and TV) award for young film talents. In 2008 Malalai Joya and Eva received the International Human Rights Film Award at the Cinema for Peace The Cinema for Peace Foundation is a registered, non-profit organization based in Berlin, Germany. It supports film-based projects dealing with global humanitarian and environmental issues, and coordinates the Cinema for Peace awards. Histor ... Gala in Berlin. Filmography * ''The Colony (Kolonien)'' (2006) * '' Enemies of Happiness (Vores lykkes fjender)'' (2006) * ''The Good Life (Det gode liv)'' (2010) * ''A Modern Man'' (2017) TV series * ''Homo sapiens'' (1997) * ''Når vi skille ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]