Pernille Fischer Christensen
Pernille Fischer Christensen (born 24 December 1969) is a Danish film director.
Life and work
Fischer Christensen attended the Danske Filmskole to 1999. Her graduation film "India " was released a year later awarded at the Festival of Cannes with the Young Investigator Award of the Cinéfondation. In 2003, she received the Robert for the short film " Habibti min elskede ".
Was published in 2006 with "En Soap" her first full-length film. With him, she took part in the competition at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006 and won the Silver Bear. Other awards went to the film at the Film Festival of San Sebastian and in 2007 was awarded the Danish Bodil for Best film. 2008 Fischer Christensen opened with the feature film A dance the fiftieth edition of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck, in which they play the female lead Trine Dyrholm entrusted again. At the Berlinale 2010, Pernille Fischer Christensen her latest film A family in competition before.
The filmmaker is the older sister of actress Stine Fischer Christensen, which used them in several of her short film work.