Filmbyen (English: Film City) is a film studio complex located in
Hvidovre
Hvidovre is the main town in Hvidovre Municipality, Denmark. The town, a suburb of Copenhagen, is about 10 km southwest of the capital's center. It is the 2nd biggest suburb of Copenhagen, only beaten by Frederiksberg.
History
Hvidovre has ...
just outside
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 ...
, Denmark.
Filmbyen is a former military base. It houses many film-related companies. Many films and TV-series have been shot there.
It was founded by
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 decad ...
and
Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Peter Aalbæk Jensen (born 8 April 1956 in Osted) is a Denmark, Danish film producer who in 1992 with director Lars von Trier founded the Danish film company Zentropa and later its huge studio complex Filmbyen. His father was writer Erik Aalbæk J ...
's company
Zentropa
Zentropa, or Zentropa Entertainments, is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. Zentropa is named after the train company Zentropa in the film '' Europa'' (1991), which started the co ...
in 1997 and is still owned and run by Zentropa.
The story of Filmbyen, its people and companies are told in Thomas Vilhelm's book ''Filmbyen'' (Ekstra Bladets Forlag, 2007), and in the documentary ''Filmbyen, la nouvelle Mecque du cinéma?'' (''Filmbyen, the new Mecca of cinema?'') directed by Pablo Tréhin-Marçot (France, 2007).
See also
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Think Tank on European Film and Film Policy
References
External links
Filmbyen official siteZentropa official site
Film production companies of Denmark
Danish film studios
Mass media in Copenhagen
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