13/06/2013 - Currently involved in films by Ole Bornedal, Pernille Fischer Christensen and Niels Arden Oplev, Denmark’s first regional film fund instigates Film Commission Fyn

Backed by six municipalities on the Danish island of Fyn (Funen), Denmark’s first regional film fund, FilmFyn, is celebrating its 10^th anniversary with seven features and documentaries rolling, and immediate plans of setting up Film Commission Fyn.

Headed by former programme director at Danish pubcaster DR, Bo Damgaard, FilmFyn has most recently been involved in Danish director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen’s psychological thriller The Hour of the Lynx [+see also:
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With an annual budget of €1.5 million, including €1 million invested in films shot in the region, FilmFund is currently participating in seven productions – the largest, Danish director Ole Bornedal’s 1864, is filming its most spectacular scenes in Prague next week (June 18-19): the battle of Dybbøl in April 1864. The line-up also includes Danish directors Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Someone You Love, Ask Hasselbalch’s Antboy, and Niels Arden Oplev’s Race Walking.

Based at Faaborg, FilmFyn will shortly instigate Film Commission Fyn, taking the first step by opening an English-language website during the autumn. The commission will inform Danish and particularly international film producers about locations on Fyn, crews and facilities for film production, hospitality services – accommodation, restaurants and catering, transportation – to further attract film and TV productions to the island.