Screenwriter (Denmark) who took part in the conference 02:
Stories for Healing?
https://youtu.be/Ju9KVo4bf70
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Julie Budtz Sørensen graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 2015. She is the head-writer of the Viaplay Original series WHERE WERE YOU? (HÅBER DU KOM GODT HJEM, 2022), based on her fictional podcast DET MED LIV, for which she won the award for best European Radio Fiction Series at Prix Europe in 2018.
She has worked on several TV series, including as part of the writers’ team on the Netflix Originals THE RAIN (2018) and CHOSEN (2022), as a co-writer on the second season of LIMBOLAND (2020), and as part of the writers’ team on an upcoming mini-series adapted from Tove Ditlevsen’s autobiography GIFT (DEPENDENCY).
Julie is currently developing two drama shows with Nimbus Film and has a feature film in development with The Danish National Film institute.
— an interview by Guillaume Desjardins, Writer-director, member of Les Parasites, recorded at Les Champs Libres (Rennes) in December 2023 in the framework of the serie "What stories for our time?".
Julie Budtz Sørensen
« Open the World of Possibilities »
From Denmark.
I'm from Denmark, I'm a scriptwriter and I'm working with TV shows and also developing some films.I started working with cinema when I was 15 in my hometown Aarhus in Denmark, where I was a part of an Atelier during my first short films. I kept working with film while I studied at university, Modern Philosophy in France. After that I was accepted to the Danish Film School on the screenwriting selection, and that was a two-year formation at the time.Since then I've been working in Danish film industry, writing in the beginning as an episode writer, so working for a creator on shows like "The Rain" that was made for Netflix. And also developing new TV show for the Danish broadcasted TV2 and working on feature films with the Danish Film Institute.
Saying something about society and modern life.
I think that I do try in my work to push something to be a bit different, especially when it comes to TV shows. It's not like I want to revolutionise anything, but take small steps of… I definitely want to do something that is not only for entertaining, that has a level of saying something about society and modern life.
Believe in your idea and deploy it.
When I get an idea I don't write it down. If it comes back and it gets more, there's more and more substance by playing with the idea in my head, then I will think this is important enough for me to tell it. I won't be afraid that it doesn't have any sense. I'm more like, I think this has meaning, is this the right way to tell it? Is it enough… Does it have enough material, can there be enough characters in this for it to be a real story?
"When I get an idea I don't write it down.If it is not important, I think I will just forget it."— Julie Budtz Sørensen —
Our experiences to feed the characters' experiences.
My own life experiences I think give me more and more material to write on, and I'm definitely way more open.I think when I was a young student I was more like thinking about what the filmmakers that I admired were doing.Whereas now I'm more like way more using my life experiences and people I meet to create the stories. I have worked for others,
