20/07/2005

Rene Hjerter, the feature film debut of Kenneth Kainz produced by Fine & Mellow, has just been awarded DK 7m (€940,000) production support from the Danish Film Institute(DFI).
The film starring Anders Matthesen, Laura Bro and Helle Hertz, is based on a script written by Kim Fupz Aakeson (Accused, Chinaman). It is the story of 30-year-old Kris, locked in a psychiatric institute, who is completely fascinated by an old Danish melodrama called Rene Hjerter. It is through the classic film he sees again and again, that he understands his own world. One day, he decides to escape from the institute with his friend Willy to try and find ‘Linda’, a character from Rene Hjerter.

Kenneth Kainz graduated from the Danish Film School in 1999 and has since directed several short films, a TV series and TV commercials. His feature length debut produced by Hanne Palmquist and Thomas Gammeltoft from Fine & Mellow will start shooting next September and should be finished in the summer 2006.
Rene Hjerter is the fifth feature film produced by the three-years-old production company Fine & Mellow. Chinaman, one of its two feature films made in 2005 was just awarded a Fipresci Award and an Ecumenical Jury Award at the last Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.