Ole John Povlsen

Founder of Ole John Film, producer, director and cinematographer, born 1939 in Copenhagen. Ole John has worked extensively on developing new talent both in Denmark and internationally. Assistant professor at Arts Academy of Düsseldorf, Germany 1971-76, head of the Danish Film Workshop 1977-84, head of Dansk Novellefilm/New Danish Screen 1994-98.

He has lectured at The Norwegian Film School, The London Film School, Beijing Film Academy and The German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Throughout his career, Ole John co-founded influential film collectives like ABCinema, Elevator at Drakabygget, and the Film Group Düsseldorf in Germany, where he also taught at the Art Academy for several years. Additionally, he has worked as a producer and cinematographer for Jørgen Leth and directed numerous experimental and documentary films, including collaborations with the German artist Joseph Beuys.

With a background in painting, fashion design, illustration and music, Susanne Deeken explores the language of such disciplines to create abody of work of anti-realistic animated films.

Her relationship to any one single discipline is in fact intrinsically interconnected to one another with a fluidity and effortlessness which gives her aesthetic a distinctive and original voice.

Combining traditional analogue techniques with digital tools, she draws from and expands on a broad archive of her own paintings, drawings, and collages, creating surreal animated films set in worlds of imaginary dream-like surroundings.

She lives and works in London.

Nils Holst-Jensen, f. 1988, is a film director and screenwriter. He graduated from The National Filmschool of Denmark in 2013 and is also BA in Film- & Media Science with Teater- og Performance studies from The University of Copenhagen. Nils won the Next Nordic Generation award at Norwegian International Film Festival in 2013 and has directed the Viaplay seriens ”Håber du kom godt hjem”, which won for ”best crime show” at THIS Series Awards and was nomineted at TV-prisen for best short fiction.