Thomas Vinterberg to premiere first TV series at Venice Film Festival

Written by Thomas Vinterberg and Bo Hr. Hansen (Darkness: Those Who Kill, The Purity of Vengeance) and produced by Another Round producers Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing, Families Like Ours reunites Vinterberg and Zentropa with Studiocanal who distributed Another Round in the UK. Studiocanal is co-producer and distributor of the 7-part series which shot on location in Denmark, Sweden, France, Romania, and The Czech Republic.

Zentropa Entertainments and TV 2 Denmark developed the series with support from the Danish Film Institute’s Public Service Fund and The Creative Europe Media programme of the European Union, and Studiocanal as co-producer. At script stage Canal+ immediately commissioned the highly anticipated series in France as a Canal+ Creation Originale.

The series is produced by Zentropa Entertainments for TV 2 Denmark, Studiocanal and Canal+, co-funded by The Danish Film Institute - Public Service Fund, The European Union and Nordisk Film & TV Fond in co-production with NRK, TV4, ARD Degeto, co-produced by Film i Väst, Sirena Film, Zentropa Sweden, Saga Film and Ginger Pictures, co-produced with the support from Czech Film Fund and BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance in collaboration with Canal+ Poland and M7.

Thomas Vinterberg commented: ‘i am proud and excited. La Biennale di Venezia is the perfect place for Families Like Ours to meet the world. After Another Round, I dove straight into this epic story about families who must leave their mother country before the water will flood their land. Consequently, the water in the streets of Venice is a particularly poignant setting. There’s something innately defiant about a festival in a city on water, which perfectly mirrors my primary theme - resilience. Human beings have an incredible ability to adapt, even in the most challenging of circumstances. I find great hope and dignity in that’.

STUDIOCANAL’s EVP Global Sales and Distribution Anne Cherel is overseeing worldwide sales. The company is actively producing a slate of premium international TV series in-house, as well as through its network of award-winning subsidiary production companies.