Gammeltoft named CEO of Copenhagen's first film fund: 'The icing on the cake'
- Danish producer Thomas Gammeltoft will leave Eyeworks' Fine and Mellow Productions to attract international film and TV projects to the Copenhagen region
Currently finishing Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz’s English-language drama thriller Good People – a US-UK production starring James Franco, Kate Hudson and Tom Wilkinson filming in London – Danish producer Thomas Gammeltoft (photo) has been appointed CEO of the first Copenhagen Film Fund as of September 1.
"Denmark has momentum like never before when it comes to television series and feature films. We win awards, and our creative people both before and behind the camera are popular and in demand internationally. The film fund in Copenhagen could be the icing on the cake for Danish and international features and television series, adding to the growth in the region. The expectations are great, and it is a great honor for me to be asked to participate setting it up,” he said.
Having been discussed for the past ten years, the Copenhagen Film Fund will become the third regional film fund in Denmark – after FilmFyn at Faaborg and the West-Danish Film Fund in Aarhus – which will work to attract mainly international film and TV projects to the Copenhagen region. “And Copenhagen has just been named the best city in the world,” added the fund’s newly-appointed chairman, Jørgen Ramskov, head of Denmark’s Radio24syv radio channel.
Currently creative director of Copenhagen’s Eyeworks Fine and Mellow Productions, Gammeltoft has since 1990 signed 37 film and television productions, most recently including Genz’s Excuse Me (2012) and Terribly Happy [+see also:
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