Pernille Fischer Christensen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Pernille Fischer Christensen

Danish film director

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1969

Place of Birth: Denmark

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Pernille Fischer Christensen

  • Pernille Fischer Christensen (born 24 December 1969) is a Danish film director and the older sister of actor Stine Fischer Christensen.
  • She started out in the movie business when she was 20 years old as an assistant to Tómas Gislason.
  • During that time, Gislason was closely connected to Lars von Trier, and she got to listen to Gislason and von Trier's discussions about movies.
  • In 1993, she went to The European Film College where she met and collaborated with Nanna Arnfred.
  • In 1999, she graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with the movie India, which later went on to win the Cinéfondations 3rd Prize at the Film festival in Cannes.
  • After finishing film school she made a short film called Habibti My Love, which won a Robert in 2003 for best short subject.
  • Her first feature film, En Soap (English title: A Soap), came out in 2006 and centered on the relationship between a female beauty shop owner and the transsexual living downstairs.
  • The movie starred Trine Dyrholm as the beauty shop owner and David Dencik as the transsexual Veronica, and was written as a collaboration between Pernille Fischer Christensen and Kim Fupz Aakeson.
  • The movie opened at the Berlin Film Festival and won a Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix Award, and was the first ever winner of the Best First Feature Award.
  • Later the movie also won several prizes in Denmark, including a Bodil for best movie.
  • The movie was also nominated for 15 Robert Awards, including Best Movie and Best Screenplay.
  • It did however only win only four awards, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Editor and Best Make-up.Her next feature film is called Dancers, and the writing has again been a collaboration between Pernille Fischer Christensen and Kim Fupz Aakeson.
  • The movie is "centred round a dance school run by the bright and lively Annika and her no-nonsense mother".
  • As was the case in A Soap, the movie starred Trine Dyrholm.
  • The movie also starred Anders W.
  • Berthelsen and Birthe Neumann.
  • The Danish newspaper Information has listed Dancers as one of the 10 most expected movies of 2008.Her 2010 film, A Family, was presented at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

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