Sisse Graum Jørgensen, the Zentropa producer behind Thomas Vinterberg's BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated "Another Round," spoke to Variety about working with Vinterberg, making her TV debut, as well as opportunities and challenges ahead for independent producers.Graum Jørgensen is primarily known for her long and successful partnerships with some of the most celebrated filmmakers in Denmark, including Vinterberg and Susanne Bier, whose film "In a Better World" won an Oscar in 2011, Anders Thomas Jensen ("Riders of Justice"), Kristian Levring ("The Salvation"), Tobias...
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Producing at the Denmark-based company co-founded by director Lars Von Trier, Graum Jørgensen has made films with many of her country’s top directors, including Susanne Bier’s “In a Better World” (2011), which won the best foreign language film Oscar. But she is perhaps best known for her cinematic collaborations with Thomas Vinterberg, most notably on “Another Round” (2020), starring Mads Mikkelsen, which scored Oscar nods for best feature and best director and winning the former. It was also a top grosser in Denmark over the pandemic, alongside another of her films, Anders Thomas Jensen’s “Riders of Justice,” also starring Mikkelsen. She teams with Vinterberg again for his TV drama debut, the upcoming limited series “Families Like Ours” (TV 2 Denmark/StudioCanal), about a Danish high schooler who must choose between her divorced parents amid a catastrophic flood.