08/06/2005

The Danish Film Institute (DFI) has just awarded €3 million (DKK 22.2 million) production support to three new feature film set to start shooting this summer.
The first project to film in July is Kasper Barfoed’s new family film Tempelherrernes skat (The Templars Treasure) produced by Mie Andreasen for M & M Productions. This is Barfoed’s second feature film following last year’s Min Søsters børn i Egypt (My Sister’s Kids in Egypt), the second most popular local film with over 450,000 admissions. This new project based on a script by Philip Lazebnik tells the adventures of 13-year-old Katrine who spends her summer holidays on Bornholm island with her friends Nils and Mathias and decides to go on a treasure hunt. The film received a €940.000 grant (DKK7m) from the DFI’s 60/40 production support scheme and should be ready in the winter 2006.

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Swedish born director Daniel Espinosa who made his debut feature on home turf with The Babylon Disease last year, is now making his second film Ghetto in Denmark for Michael Obel’s Thura Film. The romantic drama about a Jewish man who falls in love with a young Pakistani woman will start filming in August, based on a script by Daniel Dencik. The film was awarded €1 million (DKK 7.6m) from the DFI.

Peter Schønau Fog will make his feature film debut with Kunsten at graede i kor (The Art of Synchronous Crying), based on a novel by Erling Jepsen. The drama set in a small village in Jutland is based on a script by Bo hr. Hansen and has Jesper Asholt (Mifune) in the lead role. The film which received a €1 million grant (DKK7.6m) from the DFI is produced by Final Cut Production managed by Thomas Stenderup, former Head of Production & Development at the Danish Film Institute. Delivery date is set for the second half of 2006.