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Charlotte Madsen

Denmark

Biography

I've always felt misplaced. I took the chance before it came and moved as I turned 17. I left a small town in Jutland to move to Copenhagen to make movies. I met a whole new world where I felt welcome. I felt that I could contribute and be part of creating something. For a year and a half, I took all the film courses I could find and wrote my first feature film. It felt stupid just to put the script away in a drawer. I needed to explore the story further, find out if it would work as a film. I took another job, now I worked in a bakery and as a paper”girl”(?). I contacted the most talented danish actors I had seen in the cinema. Along with two ambitious and talented friends, we filmed our first feature film "Sweet Darling”. It was one of the biggest professional experiences I've had. I learned more that summer than I have ever done in any course. The film premiered in cinemas all over Denmark. We had no production company so I called all the cinemas myself to persuade them to show the movie. At the same time, I got into film school. A 3-year program for directors. I finished in 2015 -at the same time as I became a mother for the first time. That changed a lot and my boyfriend and I decided to move to the sea in a small house where we could focus on being parents for our daughter. At the same time, I have written, painted, and produced small films to develop myself creatively. Movies, paintings, and books no one else is going to see because they are for me only. Since then, we have had also two sons and I have gradually started working professionally again. Right now I'm editing my first professional feature Asphalt.

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