Louise Vesth

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Louise Vesth (born March 18, 1973 ) is a Danish film producer . Her short film Om natten was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Film in 2008.

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Louise Vesth graduated from the Aarhus School of Business with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1995 . She then worked for the production company Jutlandia Film for two years before attending Den Danske Filmskole . In 2001 she graduated as a producer.

Vesth then produced several films for the Danish film production company Zentropa , starting in 2002 with the children's film Nenn michsim Axel , which was nominated for Robert and won the German Children's Fund's Grand Prize at the 2003 Berlinale .

From 2005 to 2009 she produced the Danish sitcom Klovn and in the following year a film based on it. Klovn: The Movie won the Audience Award at the Robert Festival , was nominated for the Bodil and was the most successful film of 2010 in Denmark. Another TV production by Vesth was the TV advent calendar Mikkel og guldkortet, which was broadcast on TV 2 in 2008 .

Vesth worked successfully with the Danish director Christian E. Christiansen (* 1972) , among others . For their short film Om natten (international title: At Night ), produced in 2007 , in which three young women suffering from cancer spend Christmas together in a clinic, Vesth and Christiansen received an Oscar nomination the following year . They also created films such as the drama Råzone , the children's film Zoomer and the thriller ID: A - Identity Anonymous .

The European Film Promotion counted Vesth 2008 among the Producers on the Move , i. H. to the young ambitious film producers in Europe.

In 2011 Vesth was one of the producers of Lars von Trier's award-winning science fiction film drama Melancholia , for which she won the European Film Award in the Best Film category.

Vesth produced the comedy The Truth About Men with Danish director Nikolaj Arcel in 2010 and the period film The Queen and the Personal Doctor in 2012 . In 2013 she produced Lars von Trier's drama Nymphomaniac . She is also a producer of a series of Adler-Olsen -Verfilmungen where Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares play the main roles, starting in 2013 with compassion , about the published in the following year film desecration (Book template desecration ), Salvation (2016; book presentation redemption ) and Contempt (2018; original book contempt ).

In 2013 Vesth was awarded the Erik Ballings travel grant , which includes prize money of 50,000 crowns.

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Individual evidence

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  2. Awards 2003 berlinale.de, accessed on January 1, 2013.
  3. Over 500,000 så Klovn på to uger  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. politiken.dk, accessed January 1, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / politiken.dk  
  4. Louise Vesth efp-online.com, accessed on January 1, 2013.
  5. ^ The 24th European Film Awards europeanfilmacademy.org, accessed January 1, 2013.
  6. Succesfulde Zentropa-producere modtager Erik Ballings Rejselegat 2013. In: nordiskfilm.dk. Nordisk Film , November 5, 2013, accessed December 24, 2017 (Danish).