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- 14 -ABOUT THE FILMMAKERSDanish director JONAS ELMER (Directed by) is making his English language featurefilm directorial debut. His European work in music videos, commercials, television and film hasgarnered a number of accolades. He received the Hip-Hop Award for Danish hip hop and rapperJokeren‟s music video for “Sulten.” He also directed the video “Der” for Den Gale Pose. Amonghis many commercials, especially for the Nordisk Film Commercial, were spots for TDC, TV2Sport, Gøl, Findus, Schulstad, The Danish Electricity Saving Trust (Elsparefonden) and Stryhns.For television, he directed 23 episodes of the popular award winning Danish comedy series Langtfra Las Vegas. The show garnered him TV2‟s Zulu Award for Best Direction and he worked onthe Danish youth series Mørkets Engel.Feature film credits include: Nynne, based on Nynne’s Diary (original title: NynnesDagbog) by Henriette Lind and Lotte Thorsen, Monas Verden, for which he received the ReinerWerner Fassbinder Award at the Mannheim International Film Festival and developed the film‟sinteractive website, Let’s Get Lost, which he also wrote and that won three Roberts Awards –Robertpriser (for Best Film, Best Female Lead, Best Score), the Nats & Dags Københavnerprisfor Best Film, the International Press Award at the Mannheim International Film Festival andSpecial Mention by the Jury, as well as two Bodhil Awards – Bodilpriser (for Best Film, BestFemale Lead). He also directed the short film Det Sublime, which won the 1999 Short FilmFestival in Firenze.During time spent in New York, he worked as a production assistant to director Stephen Frears ona Diet Coke commercial and to Sidney Lumet on Family Business, starring Sean Connery, DustinHoffman and Matthew Broderick. He also served as a lighting technician on Thread the Needle,Bail Jumper and Murder of Love. During his stay, he studied Film Science at New YorkUniversity and directed the short The Craft of Living and Repairing Doors.A directing graduate of the National Film School of Denmark – Den Dansk Filmskole,his final school project which he both wrote and directed, Debut, won the Best Manuscript atMunich‟s Film School Festival. Other film projects have included the short Manden, which hewrote and directed and Mit Junge Menchen.As a fan of improvisation, he studied in London at the University City Lit with PierreHollins and at the Comedy Store as well as in Calgary, Canada with Keith Johnson‟sImprovisation Theatre. He later established and performed with the Danish improv group Improensembletand taught at Youth Theater Gawnenda.A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, KENNETH RANCE (Written by) graduated cumlaude with a B.A. in Radio/Television/Film Production from the Howard University School ofCommunications in 1992. The following year, he moved to Los Angeles, California where helanded a position as an office production assistant on the critically acclaimed series ROC.Afterwards, he worked as an assistant at the William Morris Agency.In 1994, Rance was admitted to the CBS Television Executive Management TrainingProgram where he developed the movie of the week Cyberstalk and coordinated the first annualCBS/ WGAw Television Writer Workshop for emerging minority writers.In 1996, he sold his first motion picture screenplay Scary Dates to 20 th Century Fox andwas later inducted into the Writers Guild of America where he has served as Co-Chair for theCommittee of Black Writers and Member-At-Large on the Committee Advisory Panel. Since thenhe has written and produced many film and television projects for several major studios andindependent production companies. His next projects include May I Take Your Order?, a