Sisse Graum Jørgensen


Sisse Graum Jørgensen is a Danish film producer and sits on the board of the film company Zentropa. Films she has produced include Hævnen, Jagten, and Dear Wendy. She also sits on the advisory board for TrustNordisk, a Scandinavian international film distributor.

Early life

Jørgensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark where she received her Bachelor degree at the Danish Business School Handels højskolen.

Career

In 2003 Graum Jørgensen became a member of the European Academy, which promotes European films and the film industry throughout the world.
Graum Jørgensen started her career making advertisements. In 1991 she worked on her first movie for Zentropa Productions APS as a production trainee and assistant producer for the co founder Peter Aalbæk Jensen. Ten years later she debuted as a producer with Niels Arden Opleys movie Chop Chop.
Graum Jørgensen worked with Danish directors Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, and, beginning in 2002, with Susanne Brier. The first movie they worked on was Biers' Open Hearts and Jørgensen was the co producer. After this she and Brier worked together in several movies and she produced Brothers, After the Wedding that was nominated for an Oscar. They also made Golden Globe, Oscar and EFA-winner In a Better World. Their last collaborations was Love is all you need written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Susanne Bier and a post production drama A second chance premiered in 2015.
In 2006 she helped to organize a film initiative called "Advance Party", designed to promote the film industry in Scotland.

Personal

Graum Jørgensen is married to Ulrik Jørgensen and has four children.

Awards and nominations

Sisse Graum Jørgensen has produced many award winning motion pictures. The Hunt directed by Thomas Vinterber was nominated at the 2014 Oscar and Golden Globe for the best foreign film, as well as 29 awards and 37 nominations, including British independent Film Award 2012, and European film awards where they won for best screenwriter and nominated in four other categories, including Best Film. Other nominated and winning films are En Famillie, Red Road, and Perfect Sense.
European Film Promotion chose Jørgensen as their "Producer on the Move" in 2003. Screen International wrote about her in their "Talent to Watch" and Variety´s Cannes chose her as one of "10 Producers to Watch". In 2013 she won the Erik Ballings Rejselegat Prize handed out by the Nordic Film Council together with her co worker at Zentropa, Louise Vesth.

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