Frederikke Aspöck is a Danish film director. She is a granddaughter of
Godfred Hartmann.
She graduated in Set Design from the
Wimbledon School of Art
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in
London
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, then in 2004 obtained a master's degree in filmmaking from
New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While studying in
NY, she wrote and directed four short films: ''Footsteps'' (1999), ''The Browns'' (2000), ''Lion-Tamer'' (2001), and ''Happy Now'' (2004), her thesis at Tisch. It brought her international recognition by winning the First Prize Cinéfondation at
Cannes Film Festival
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Selected filmography
*''Happy Now'' — short, 2004; First Prize Cinéfondation in Cannes
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*''Sheep'' ('' da, Får'') — short, 2008;
*''Moving on'' (short, 2011);
*''Out of Bounds'' ('' da, Labrador'') — debut feature, 2012; special screening in Cannes and won the Grand Prize at the Marrakech Film Festival;
*''Rosita'' (feature, 2015) — Best Director at the Moscow Film Festival
The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...
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*''Out of Tune'' ('' da, De frivillige'') — feature, 2019; selected for both Rotterdam and Göteborg Film Festival;
*''Empire'' ('' da, Viften'') — feature, 2023; Nordic Council Film Prize.
References
Living people
Danish film directors
1974 births
Danish women film directors
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