Movie review of Full Circle by Solvan “Slick” Naim and Ollie Koivula.
Originally published on Arts and Crit on April 21, 2014.
Film
Why do we need so many film festivals?
Why do we need so many film festivals?
Even putting aside the big industry festivals, like Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, Telluride, Venice and IDFA, not a day goes by without a film site announcing another festival lineup.
Originally published on Arts and Crit on 1 April, 2014.
Speaking up for political incorrectness
Speaking up for political incorrectness
Review of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.
Originally published in Unmediated, March 14, 2014.
Photo: Christian Geisnæs. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Globus USA
Globus USA on Radio 24syv interviewed me about women and Hollywood on Oscar night. In Danish.
http://arkiv.radio24syv.dk/video/9443248/00:00:00/globus-usa-uge-9-2014
Hollywood’s women have had enough
Women are underrepresented behind and in front of the camera. At the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College, strong women insisted on discussing inequality and raise the questions about gender discrimination that nobody dares answer.
Originally posted in Denmark’s largest newspaper Politiken on 20 Feb, 2014. (in Danish)
The world is round, people
What can we do about the lack of female-centered movies?
Originally published on Arts and Crit on 15 March, 2014
Master of the pitch
Stepping sideways into the animation industry, in no time he became Denmark’s top visual effects specialist. Today, he is known as the master of the pitch. Fascinated by the nerdy nitty-gritty of the business, he sees himself as a highly enthusiastic person. Meet the director and Marco Macaco-producer Thomas Borch Nielsen of Nice Ninja.
Originally published in DFI-FILM in March 2013.
Deconstruction of a genocide
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…
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
The Happiest Man in the World
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.
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