15/11/2002

The Danish Film Institute is supporting Zentropa’s latest initiative in which six prominent Scandinavian directors have agreed to make films adhering to the nine rules in Lars von Trier’s Dogumentary, a concept designed to inspire debate on the reality, ethics and productions of future documentaries.
Von Trier has drawn up a set of rules to ensure that documentary film be brought back to reality which impose a series of restrictions on the filmmaker of the Dogumentary.
The directors – all selected for having developed strong individual methodologies in their previous work – include among others, Danish Sami Saif, co-director of 2001 Joris Ivens award-winner Family, Norway's Margreth Olin (My Body) and Swedish Pål Hollender who has produced the most controversial Nordic films in recent years (Pelle Polis, Bye, Bye Beauty).
Carsten Holst from Zentropa will produce the films with backing from the DFI and DR TV (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), as well as from the Swedish Film Institute, Norwegian Film Fund, Nordic Film and Television Fund and the television stations NRK, SVT and Canal+ Scandinavia.
The films will be given a commercial release in 2004.

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(Translated from Italian)