Today, we hear from Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg about his first foray into TV series with Families Like Ours, premiering in North America at the Toronto International Film Festival today.
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Thomas Vinterberg is an Oscar-winning Danish director whose movie, Another Round, won the award for best international film three years ago.
Together with Lars von Trier, he co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, and is also known for titles including The Celebration, Submarino, The Hunt and Far from the Madding Crowd.
Now, he’s made his first foray into TV series with Families Like Ours, a drama commissioned by TV2 that imagines what happens to a family when Denmark is forced to close and evacuate due to rising water levels.
The series had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last week and has its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival today.
Produced by von Trier’s Zentropa Entertainments for TV2 and Canal+, which joined the project at the script stage, the series is distributed by Studiocanal.
Vinterberg spoke to Michael Pickard from Venice.
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