THE WEIGHT
OF ELEPHANTS, director DANIEL JOSEPH BORGMAN'S first feature film project has
been accepted into the Cannes Film Festival's THE RÈSIDENCE development
program.
Pernille
Fischer Christensens film, A FAMILY, won a FIPRESCI-prize at the 60th Berlin
Film Festival.
Great tribute to Zentropas films at the 60th Berlin Film Festival.
Lars von Trier´s next project will be the feature film:
MELANCHOLIA
Love And Rage has been selected for the Official Competition and will have its international premiere at The Montreal World Film Festival 2009.
Warrios Of Love by director Simon Staho has been selected for the Filmmakers of the Present Competition at the 62nd Locarno Film Festival.
The official Jury of the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival has awarded ORIGINAL with the festivals main prize for Best Feature Film.
The first release dates for Lars Von Triers upcoming film ANTICHRIST have now been set.
Denmark will release the film on May 29th and Sweden will follow June 5th.
“Let’s dance”, says Zentropa to Norway. Zentropa is eager to invest in the production of Norwegian films as well as in co-producing films in collaboration other Norwegian and foreign film companies.
Yesterday, the 15th jan., Berlin festival annouced that the movie, LITTLE SOLDIER, is in the head competition. LITTLE SOLDIER is directed by Anette K. Olesen from Zentropa.
Workz a/s is the result of a merger in the summer of 2008 between Zentropa Interaction, Zentropa WorkZ and Reflection in Action.
TrustNordisk (Nordisk Film & Zentropas international sales company) has sold the TV-rights for CLOWN in the intire Nordic region.
TrustNordisk (Nordisk Film & Zentropas sales company) has sold the dogme brother Kristian Levrings ”Fear Me Not” to IFC – one of the most important US distrubutors.
The thriller ANTICHRIST by Lars von Trier is now ready to start shooting in Germany after the announcement of Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as leads.
Kristian Levrings fourth feature film ”Fear Me Not”, has bin nominated to the main-competition in San Sebastian Film Festival 18-27.september 2008.
Nordisk Film and Zentropa join forces. Nordisk Film has acquired 50% of the shares in Zentropa Folket Aps. The ambition is to create a basis for further creative and commercial growth in Zentropa, including expanding the number of international productions. Peter Aalbæk Jensen continues as Managing Director of Zentropa, which in the future will be managed in an equal partnership between Nordisk Film and the existing shareholders.
Zentropa was founded in 1992 as a result of the co-operation between director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen on the feature film "Europa" (aka "Zentropa"). They share an equal ownership of 25% of the company. Yet another 25 % is owned by employees and others closely associated with the company. The last 50 % was bought by Nordisk Film as of February 2008.
