Lene Børglum
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Executive
Lene Borglum joined Zentropa right after it was founded in 1992, and
was one of the key persons and co owner of the company for 15 years
until 2007 when she left to start up on her own. Borglum was deeply
involved in the development of Zentropa from its very start till its
state in 2007 as a major European independent production company. In
her position as expert in international financing she handled
international financing on a large number of Zentropa's international
films, including Lars von Trier's highly acclaimed and awarded films
The Kingdom I and II (1994, 1996), The Idiots, Breaking The Waves
(1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), and was Executive Producer on
Trier's Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), and The Boss Of It All
(2006). After Borglum left Zentropa, she has been executive producer on
Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's first English language feature film
Mammoth (2009) and Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising (2009).
After their successful collaboration on Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising, Borglum and Refn teamed up to found production company Space Rocket Nation in January 2008.
Space Rocket Nation mainly aims to produce highly artistic and edgy feature films for an international audience by Nicolas Winding Refn, as well as to build up a new generation of edgy, artistic Scandinavian directors, both for fiction and documentaries, and help them reach the international audience. In Space Rocket Nation, she is producing Refn's Only God Forgives (2012), starring Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas.
After their successful collaboration on Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising, Borglum and Refn teamed up to found production company Space Rocket Nation in January 2008.
Space Rocket Nation mainly aims to produce highly artistic and edgy feature films for an international audience by Nicolas Winding Refn, as well as to build up a new generation of edgy, artistic Scandinavian directors, both for fiction and documentaries, and help them reach the international audience. In Space Rocket Nation, she is producing Refn's Only God Forgives (2012), starring Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas.