19/08/2010

Vinca Wiedemann, the former artistic director of New Danish Screen, who worked most recently as script consultant on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, has joined Zentropa as the company’s new producer and creative advisor.

Wiedemann graduated as editor from the National Film School of Denmark in 1987. She was film commissioner for the Danish Film Institute (DFI) from 1999-2003, then spearheaded the DFI’s innovative low budget film scheme New Danish Screen from 2003-07. Since then, working as a freelancer, she has collaborated on several Zentropa productions as script consultant, as well as artistic producer on, among others, Pernille Fischer Christensen's A Family [+see also:
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As full-time producer at Zentropa, she will be working closely with the company's scriptwriters, producers and directors on each individual project (features, short films, documentaries and TV series) and with Zentropa’s board members to help them polish the company's artistic goals.

“My role at Zentropa will be to optimize the artistic potential of the projects,” said Wiedemann. “I will also help the company in defining its artistic profile and establishing the best creative environment possible for its various production branches, both in the Nordic region and across Europe.”

Zentropa managing director Peter Aalbæk Jensen specified: "We've spent the last six years trimming our budget here at Zentropa, and now it's high time we focus on our artistic output".

Wiedemann, who started her new job on Monday, is currently working on a new film by Christensen and another scripted by Kim Fupz Aakeson, to be directed by her sister, theatre director Katrina Wiedemann.