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This chapter constitutes an interview with Anders Kjærhauge, Managing Director of the Zentropa Group. Zentropa is Scandinavia’s largest film production company, perhaps best known as the producer of Lars von Trier’s work. In this interview, Kjærhauge explains Zentropa’s various transnational activities and shares insights into their extensive experience in international co-production, including aspects of public policy that are working well, and less well, for producers.
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Kjærhauge specified that in the Danish context ‘low budget’ refers to films with budgets of slightly less than €2 million and that ‘high budget’ films are those with budgets of €10–12 million.
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The European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production.
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If, for instance, the proportion of the budget that could be contributed from their national territory would not reach the minimum level specified in the Convention.
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The European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production stipulates the minimum levels of financial participation for each territory.
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For example, ‘Letter from International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) to the European Commission’, Brussels, 2 May 2017. Accessed 23 March 2018 at http://www.fiapf.org/pdf/Final%20May%202%202017%20AV%20sector%20411%20signatories.pdf.
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Hammett-Jamart, J. (2018). ‘A Matter of Survival: Co-production as a Means of Competing Internationally’—an interview with Anders Kjærhauge. In: Hammett-Jamart, J., Mitric, P., Novrup Redvall, E. (eds) European Film and Television Co-production. Palgrave European Film and Media Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97157-5_19
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