Depicting the genocide in Indonesia in 1965 from the point of view of the perpetrators, “The Act of Killing” has caused an uproar in Indonesia and the West. “If you want to understand where genocide comes from, you have to find out what drives the perpetrators,” says Signe Byrge Sørensen, the film’s Danish producer.
Originally published in FILM Magazine in November 2012.
If you can manage a children’s birthday party…
There’s a saying that goes, If you can manage a children’s birthday party, you can manage a film production. Do women owe their success to their ability to organise and multitask? Does the maternal instinct come out in the ability to nurse a project and make sure everyone onboard is happy? Or, more discouraging, is it simply that the lack of money and prestige in documentaries has been keeping men away?
FILM asked six distinctive, experienced and internationally oriented women producers about what drives them, their watershed projects and daily challenges, and what they think it is women, in particular, can do.
Originally published in FILM Magazine in November 2012
Brian McGinn, a connoisseur of quirky characters, picked Mette Heide of Denmark to be his producer after seeing a Heide-produced film about the eccentric Japanese inventor Dr Nakamats. “The Record Breaker” is a documentary comedy about Ashrita Furman, a 56-year-old New Yorker who holds the world record for most world records.
Originally posted in FILM Magazine in November 2012.
Charlotte Bruus Christensen received the Cannes Film Festival’s technical achievement award for her cinematography on “The Hunt”. Meet the talented cinematographer who values honesty, minimalism and reality in her work.
Originally posted on the Danish Film Institute on 31 May, 2012.
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