Peter Garde, European film financing vet and frequent collaborator of filmmakers like Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, has died aged 67 in Fakse, Denmark, after a long battle with cancer. Garde’s wife, Nanna, confirmed the news to Deadline alongside his close associates, Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Anders Kjærhauge.
Garde began his education in finance in the small town of Store Heddinge in Denmark, where he was a student set to become a banker. He ultimately went on to start his own financial exchange company.
After the success of Lars Von Trier’s Breaking The Waves, Garde was convinced by his close friend producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen to join Zentropa and help manage all the money that was pouring into the studio, which ultimately became the beginning of Garde’s long career with Lars Von Trier and Zentropa Studios’ films. He joined the company in 1997.
Garde was responsible for piecing...
Garde began his education in finance in the small town of Store Heddinge in Denmark, where he was a student set to become a banker. He ultimately went on to start his own financial exchange company.
After the success of Lars Von Trier’s Breaking The Waves, Garde was convinced by his close friend producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen to join Zentropa and help manage all the money that was pouring into the studio, which ultimately became the beginning of Garde’s long career with Lars Von Trier and Zentropa Studios’ films. He joined the company in 1997.
Garde was responsible for piecing...
- 2/8/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Scandi brands Zentropa, REinvent and TrustNordisk are launching NutAlone, a new streamer of European films and TV dramas.
Rikke Ennis, CEO of Copenhagen-based packaging, sales and financing company REInvent Studios, has spent the last couple of years conceptualizing NutAlone with her former TrustNordisk colleagues and Zentropa CEO Anders Kjærhauge.
Their idea was to dust off titles left on shelves by distributors and bring them out to the world digitally, while helping rights holders to maximize revenues.
“Having worked in the distribution biz for over two decades, having been to all the festivals and tried to get the best arthouse films to the world, I’ve realized how complicated it is,” says Ennis.
“If you have Lars von Trier or Thomas Vinterberg, the whole world is interested, but with smaller films, even those selected at festivals, you will sell five-to-eight territories max. The rest of the world will remain available as...
Rikke Ennis, CEO of Copenhagen-based packaging, sales and financing company REInvent Studios, has spent the last couple of years conceptualizing NutAlone with her former TrustNordisk colleagues and Zentropa CEO Anders Kjærhauge.
Their idea was to dust off titles left on shelves by distributors and bring them out to the world digitally, while helping rights holders to maximize revenues.
“Having worked in the distribution biz for over two decades, having been to all the festivals and tried to get the best arthouse films to the world, I’ve realized how complicated it is,” says Ennis.
“If you have Lars von Trier or Thomas Vinterberg, the whole world is interested, but with smaller films, even those selected at festivals, you will sell five-to-eight territories max. The rest of the world will remain available as...
- 1/22/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Author Anne Mette Lundtofte has written an op-ed for The New Yorker that details the “dark side” of the work culture at Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen’s Danish film production company Zentropa. The company has been accused in the past of being home to “toxic masculinity” at the hands of von Trier and Aalbæk Jensen, but Lundtofte details new allegations in her first-person account of life inside Zentropa.
According to Lundtofte, who spent time at Zentropa while writing about the company for her book, “Zentropia,” von Trier and Jensen set up an initiation process of sorts that required employees to strip and go skinning dipping with them. Lundtofte refers to skinny dipping with von Trier and Aalbæk Jensen as a “Zentropa ritual.”
“When you’ve stripped naked in front of Aalbæk Jensen and von Trier,...
According to Lundtofte, who spent time at Zentropa while writing about the company for her book, “Zentropia,” von Trier and Jensen set up an initiation process of sorts that required employees to strip and go skinning dipping with them. Lundtofte refers to skinny dipping with von Trier and Aalbæk Jensen as a “Zentropa ritual.”
“When you’ve stripped naked in front of Aalbæk Jensen and von Trier,...
- 12/20/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Updated: A new statement from Zentropa has been added at the bottom of this post.
Producers from 11 nations claim they are “shocked and upset” by “the brazen display of toxic masculinity” they witnessed at an event hosted last month by Zentropa, the Danish production company founded by Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Lars von Trier. Their concerns, detailed in a November 28 statement, are connected to a producers workshop that occurred last month at Film City, Zentropa’s headquarters in Copenhagen. The October 26 workshop happened after singer and actress Björk alleged that von Trier had sexually harassed her while directing their Oscar-nominated 2000 film “Dancer in the Dark,” and before nine women shared with the newspaper Politiken similar experiences they’d endured at Zentropa.
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According to the statement, 70 producers from the international film community attended the workshop, where they were greeted by Zentropa’s female producers,...
Producers from 11 nations claim they are “shocked and upset” by “the brazen display of toxic masculinity” they witnessed at an event hosted last month by Zentropa, the Danish production company founded by Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Lars von Trier. Their concerns, detailed in a November 28 statement, are connected to a producers workshop that occurred last month at Film City, Zentropa’s headquarters in Copenhagen. The October 26 workshop happened after singer and actress Björk alleged that von Trier had sexually harassed her while directing their Oscar-nominated 2000 film “Dancer in the Dark,” and before nine women shared with the newspaper Politiken similar experiences they’d endured at Zentropa.
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According to the statement, 70 producers from the international film community attended the workshop, where they were greeted by Zentropa’s female producers,...
- 11/28/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Following allegations of sexual harassment and workplace bullying made by several women against Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbæk Jensen, the powerhouse Danish production company is taking steps to redefine its culture. In an internal memo obtained by Deadline, management including Anders Kjærhauge, Rikke Ennis, Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Louise Vesth say they have met with employees to begin a process that will “update, hone and specify our guidelines for a…...
- 11/15/2017
- Deadline
Zentropa, the Danish production company co-founded by Lars von Trier, has released an official statement following sexual harassment allegations made by nine women who worked at the company. The claims were published in the Danish newspaper Politiken and mostly involve the company other co-founder Peter Aalbæk Jensen. The accusers say they were subject to “sexual harassment, degradation and bullying” while working at Zentropa.
Read More:Nine Women Allege ‘Sexual Harassment, Degradation and Bullying’ at Zentropa, Lars von Trier’s Production Company
The statement was written by Zentropa CEO Anders Kjærhauge and the company’s management team and published on ScreenDaily. According to the statement, “an agreement has been reached and the management will issue a set of guidelines for the company’s working environment henceforth. All employees are subject to these regulations and will be called upon to respect them.”
“Through dialogue with all our employees, we will encourage sincerity and...
Read More:Nine Women Allege ‘Sexual Harassment, Degradation and Bullying’ at Zentropa, Lars von Trier’s Production Company
The statement was written by Zentropa CEO Anders Kjærhauge and the company’s management team and published on ScreenDaily. According to the statement, “an agreement has been reached and the management will issue a set of guidelines for the company’s working environment henceforth. All employees are subject to these regulations and will be called upon to respect them.”
“Through dialogue with all our employees, we will encourage sincerity and...
- 11/14/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Lars von Trier’s regular producer to retire as CEO of the largest film production company in Scandinavia.
Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen has announced today (his 60th birthday) that he will retire from his position as CEO.
The producer launched the Danish film company in 1992 with director Lars von Trier and the company has made more than 70 features in that time, including Dancer In The Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia (2011) and Nymphomaniac (2013), helping it become the largest film production company in Scandinavia.
Making the announcment, Aalbaek Jensen took the opportunity to highlight “our latest victories”.
”The Commune, A Conspiracy of Faith and soon The Day will Come will sell a total of more than 1.2 million tickets in Danish theatres during the first half of 2016,” he said. “On top of that Trine Dyrholm won the Silver Bear for her part in The Commune.”
Aalbaek Jensen leaves the direction of the company in the hands of head of legal [link=nm...
Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen has announced today (his 60th birthday) that he will retire from his position as CEO.
The producer launched the Danish film company in 1992 with director Lars von Trier and the company has made more than 70 features in that time, including Dancer In The Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia (2011) and Nymphomaniac (2013), helping it become the largest film production company in Scandinavia.
Making the announcment, Aalbaek Jensen took the opportunity to highlight “our latest victories”.
”The Commune, A Conspiracy of Faith and soon The Day will Come will sell a total of more than 1.2 million tickets in Danish theatres during the first half of 2016,” he said. “On top of that Trine Dyrholm won the Silver Bear for her part in The Commune.”
Aalbaek Jensen leaves the direction of the company in the hands of head of legal [link=nm...
- 4/8/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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