Lise Lense-Moller

Biography

Film producer, founder, and CEO of Magic Hour Films, a company set up in 1984 and based in Copenhagen. Magic Hour Films develops and produces documentary and fiction for the national as well as international markets. A large number of productions are international co-productions of which many have received international acclaim, the top winner being ‘Burma VJ’ by Anders Østergaard with 52 international awards and an Oscar-nomination and ‘Into Eternity’ by Michael Madsen. The company also seeks to develop and promote new talent and Lise consults and supervises talent and up-coming companies. In addition, Lise Lense-Møller, has been lecturing and leading international workshops continuously over the last 25 years, a.o. as group leader for EAVE since 1993, an educational program for producers, which Lise is presently acting Head of Studies for. Lise also runs a small publishing house and teaches yoga. RECENT RELEASES: HEARTBOUND - by Janus Metz and Sine Plambech. 90 mins. Premiered at TIFF, Grand Prix Zürich Int. Film Festival, IDFA Best of Fest, 2018, Best feature, American Anthropological Films Award, and Best Feature, Royal Anthropological Institute, UK, UN Global Migration Film Festival, Bangkok, Lübeck Nordische Filmtage, Gothenburg IFF 2019 and many more. SEA OF SORROW, SEA OF HOPE – by Estephan Wagner and Marianne Hougen-Moraga for UNHCR (30 mins). Best Human Rights film, Students’ jury, and special mention Best Editing, Solar Lune Doc Festival, 2018 RETURN OF A PRESIDENT - After the coup in Madagascar by Lotte Mik-Meyer. Nominated for F:ACT Award, CPH:DOX2017 IN THE PIPELINE: (A selection) JOURNEY TO UTOPIA by Erlend E. Mo. EURIMAGES Development Award, cph:dox 2018 Feature Documentary filmed in Denmark and Norway. Expected release winter 2019/2020. CHILDREN OF THE LOWEST HEAVEN by Birgitte Stærmose. A hybrid feature film, filmed in Kosovo. Expected release 2020. THE SKY ABOVE ZENICA by Zlatko Pranjic and Nanna Frank. Filmed in Bosnia and UK. Expected release 2020. THE BUS STOP HUNTER with Christopher Herwig by Kristoffer Hegnsvad. Filmed over 15 years in the former Soviet Union.