KEYS OF THE CITY – 27th Umbria Film festival. Trine Dyrholm is an award-winning Danish actress. Trine’s career started in 1990 with her screen debut in the teenage romance Springflod, for which she received a Bodil Award for Best Actress, and earned national recognition instantly. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in...
KEYS OF THE CITY – 26th Umbria Film festival. Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and director. He was Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, and he has received critical acclaim for his roles in Road to Perdition and Conspiracy. Tucci has achieved great success with...
Thomas Vinterberg born 1969, Denmark. Graduate of the National Film School of Denmark, 1993. Vinterberg was, together with Lars von Trier, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen and Kristian Levring, one of the four original Dogme brothers. He has received a score of awards at international festivals for his short films, the Academy Award-nominated Last Round (1993), and...
Born on the French Riviera, Michel Ocelot spent his childhood in Guinea, grew up in the Loire valley and then settled in Paris. He has dedicated his entire career to film animation. Since the beginning, all his works have been based on his own scripts and graphics. Among his short films, he directed The 3 Inventors (1980 Bafta for best animated...
Raffaele Arena, better known as Lello Arena, is an Italian stand-up comedian, actor, and voice actor, who is also a key spokesman, along with Massimo Troisi and Enzo Decaro, for a new Neapolitan comedy sketch group called La Smorfia that begins to gain its fame in the late 70s. Lello Arena first meets Massimo Troisi at...
Bill Nighy is an award-winning actor of the stage and screen whose extensive filmography illustrates an illustrious career. Amongst others, Nighy has received a BAFTA Award, a London Film Critics Circle Award, and an Evening Standard British Film Award. Audiences can expect to see Nighy in THE BOOKSHOP (release date TBC) which is currently in...
Ghita Nørby’s the unrivaled grande dame of Danish stage and screen, her career spans almost 60 years in multiple genres. She has played everything from country sweetheart to Machiavellian mother-in-law. Yet, perhaps, Nørby’s most memorable role is that of a spirited, middle-aged housewife in Waltzing Regitze (1989), directed by Kaspar Rostrup. Cast against character in...
Tom Hooper is an internationally acclaimed film director. His latest movie The Danish Girl won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (Alicia Vikander) and was nominated for three more Oscars: Best Actor (Eddie Redmayne), Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. Alicia Vikander won the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress with Eddie Redmayne...
Rachel Portman is a British composer of international fame. She became the first female composer to win an Academy Award, which she received for the score of Emma. She was also the first female composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, which she received for the film, Bessie. She has received two further Academy Nominations...
Bille August (1948) is an award-winning director. His 1987 film Skin to conquer the world won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, an Oscar and a Golden Globe. He is one of six directors to have won the Palme d’Or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1992 for With the best intentions, based on an...
