Earlier this week 60 producers, screenwriters, directors and academics from Denmark, Sweden and Belgium were gathered in Malmö for two days of inspiration and new perspectives on stories and narratives that unites our nations across borders. The ambition wasn’t to bang Danish, Belgian and Swedish producers and creatives on the…
The Danish star director’s ‘The Kindness of Strangers’ will premiere as the opening film at the Berlin Film Festival in February. Copenhagen Film Fund is proud to have contributed to making the film even more Danish For the first time, a Danish-produced film has been selected as the official opening…
With an investment from Copenhagen Film Fund, BBC shoots parts of the new “Gentleman Jack” television series in Copenhagen. But these major international productions may become a rare sight in the future, as the film fund lacks funding from 2019. Spectacular panoramas inside Copenhagen City Hall, horse carriages in central…
Copenhagen Film Fund’s primary contributor, the Municipality of Copenhagen, will not grant support to the Danish regional film and TV fund in 2019. The Fund has three investments on its slate ultimo 2018 but will here after not be able to attract international film and TV productions to the capital…
The production of Fenar Ahmad’s adventure film ‘Valhalla’ was well on its way to Hungary before Copenhagen Film Fund made it economically viable to stay in Denmark. Now Midgard, Asgard and the Jotun World are built on Danish soil. Throughout August the biggest studios in the Nordic region, Filmstationen,…
The man behind HBO’s hitseries ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has just visited Copenhagen. 170 of the most talented creative people within Nordic TV drama participated in his masterclass at The National Film School of Denmark. When the American TV producer Bruce Miller gave a masterclass at The National Film School of…
The Danish film shootings of Viaplay’s international TV drama STRAIGHT FORWARD have just begun in Copenhagen. With an investment from Copenhagen Film Fund, the production includes both Danish cast and a seven-day shoot in the Danish capital. New Zealand humour and magnificent scenery combined with Nordic noir mystique. This is…
Read about the Fund’s investments and activities in the past year, along with ambitions for the future in our illustrated Annual Report. The report is written and based on the research agency Copenhagen Economics’ effect report about the Fund’s investments 2013 – 2017, which is available here. Enjoy!
The 71st annual Cannes Film Festival is fast approaching and the festival has just announced that Lars von Trier’s THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT has been added to the Official Selection – Out of Competition at this year’s festival. This will be the 10th time Lars von Trier is in…
Copenhagen Film Fund invests 1.6 million Danish crones in Final Cut For Real’s upcoming documentary film FLEE.The partially animated documentary film tells the story of the 11-year-old boy Amin, who is forced to flee from Afghanistan. An escape that separates his family in all directions. FLEE becomes the first time,…
