Acclaimed Danish director Christoffer Boe (pictured) and his long-time producer Tine Grew Pfeiffer who together founded the auteur-driven company Alphaville Pictures Copenhagen 16 years ago have decided to split.
The creative duo first met at the National Film School of Denmark in 1998 and their first collaboration on Reconstruction (2003) immediately put Boe’s name on the international map when the film won the Camera d’or in Cannes. Other films that followed include Boe’s Allegro, Offscreen, Everything Will be Fine and the director’s biggest box office success Sex, Drugs and Taxation that sold over 330,000 tickets in Denmark. Other directors produced by Alphaville include Brigitte Stærmose (Out of Love, Room 304) and Jonas Arnby whose feature debut When Animals Dream screened at Cannes 2014 Critics’ Week.
“Tine and I have accomplished a lot together” said Christoffer Boe, contacted yesterday by phone. “We’ve made films that were selected at prestigious festivals, produced other people’s movies and our last production When Animals Dream premiered in Cannes and was sold worldwide. We want to try something completely different and this is the good time to do it. We’ve decided to step out of our comfort zone but are still in the process of finding out what’s the next step. Hopefully separately we’ll make more projects than before”.
Grew Pfeiffer said she and Boe are examining their ‘options in the film and television industry and trying to sort out how the production company Alphaville will continue under a new constellation’.