Lene Børglum
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Lene Børglum (b. 1961 in Denmark) is a Danish film producer who has worked on several important films in a variety of genres, including experimental shorts, hardcore porn videos and theatrical feature films such as Lars von Trier's Golden Palm-nominated Dogville.
[edit] Career
Lene Børglum graduated in 1984 from Copenhagen Business School, then in 1986-1990 worked as a producer at Det Danske Filmværksted.
She was a frequent production partner on the acclaimed experimental shorts of director Knud Vesterskov, some of which she also appeared in.
In 1992 Lene Børglum was employed as producer at Zentropa, which she helped develop into one of Scandinavia's most successful film companies, leading its legal department since 1995.
In 1998, she started Zentropa's porn department, Puzzy Power, and produced the hardcore feature films Constance (1998), Pink Prison (1999) and HotMen CoolBoyz (2000).
Lene Børglum then graduated to the rank of executive producer, and has served Zentropa as such on the feature films Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), Dommeren (2005) and The Boss of It All (2006).
Scheduled for release in 2008 are Lukas Moodysson's drama Mammoth and Nicolas Winding Refn's adventure-film Valhalla Rising.
[edit] Sources
There's a chapter on Lene Børglum in Thomas Vilhelm's book Filmbyen (2007).
She is interviewed in Bent Staalhøj's feature-length documentary film From Scratz (2002).
