You and me and Nordisk forever: Kaspar Munk receives new talent award

by Jorn Rossing Jensen

12/04/2013 - The Danish director was honoured at the opening of the CPH PIX Copenhagen International Film Festival with the age of the Danish major festival times DKK1,000

Danish director Kaspar Munk, who most recently signed the youth picture, You and Me Forever [+see also:
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The presentation of the accolade for new talent was made at Copenhagen’s Imperial Theatre by Danish director Michael Noer, whose gangster movie Northwest was the first local production to inaugurate the festival. Noer was himself awarded the honour three years ago with Danish director Tobias Lindholm, with whom he made the prison drama, R [+see also:
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“Regardless of what he will focus on in his upcoming film, we have no doubt that Munk’s work as a sensitive, sensual andintuitive filmmaker has only just begun," said producer Thomas Heinesen, of Nordisk Film Production, who is chairman of the prize committee. Nordisk instigated the award 17 years ago, and has since 2010 targeted it at new talent, which is also the aim of the festival’s New Talent Grand PIX competition.

Munk’s feature debut, Hold Me Tight [+see also:
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The Copenhagen festival, which last year reached 40,200 admissions, will unspool 160 features at 400 performances in eight Copenhagen cinemas and elsewhere, such as US director Garry Marshall’s Pretty Woman at an open-air cinema in Copenhagen’s red-light district and Dutch director Richard Raaphort’s horror flick, Frankenstein’s Army, in a military bunker.

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