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NORDIC NEIGHBORS WOULD LIKE TO COPY DANISH FILM SUCCESS
Mar. 8, 2010 | Topic: Creative and entertainmentSuccessful women in the film industry is in short supply almost anywhere – just not in Denmark.
Denmark currently has a unique pool of talent among female directors in motion picture and television arts including Oscar-nominated Lone Scherfig and more recent names such as Pernille Fischer Christensen and Christina Rosendahl, and other exciting young talents. A success, which our Nordic neighbors in Sweden, Norway and Finland are trying to copy by all sorts of legislative initiatives, the Danish newspaper Borden writes.
"All around us quotas are being discussed to get more women involved, while we in Denmark have a series of female directors," says the director of the Danish Film Institute Henrik Bo Nielsen.
He has no obvious explanation for the many strong women movies, but he does not think that the neighboring countries' efforts to prioritise women are the way forward.
"Perhaps, the answer to increasing the number of women in the arts does not lie in quotas at all, but in creating a support system that does not distinguish between genders," says Henrik Bo Nielsen.
