One of the creators of “Dogma 95” to arrive in Krakow2010-03-15

Thomas Vinterberg Will Be Another Festival Juror

Accomplished Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, along with John Cooper and Mike Figgis, will be on the Jury of Off Plus Camera’s 2010 Competition.


Director of “The Celebration” in Krakow.

Vinterberg, born in 1969 in Copenhagen, began his cinematic journey with his studies at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating in 1993. For his final project at the school, “Sidste omgang” (“Last Round”), he won two awards at the International Student Film Festival in Munich. In 1995 Vinterberg, Lars von Trier, Kristian Levring, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen developed the ambitious and controversial film manifesto “Dogme 95”, which urged a return to austerity and naturalism in opposition to the overproduced tendencies of contemporary cinema. Vinterberg exhibited Dogme 95 goals in his film “Festen” (“The Celebration”), which won a number of important awards including the Jury Prize at Cannes, a European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film. In 2003, the director made his first film in English, “It’s All About Love”, with Joaquin Phoenix and Sean Penn, and then “Dear Wendy” in 2005, with Jamie Bell and Bill Pullman. “Submarino”, his most recent work and a tale of two brothers reunited by a tragic event, was nominated for the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.