Filmbyen (English: Film City) is a film studio complex located in Hvidovre just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. [1]
Filmbyen is a former military base. It houses many film-related companies. Many films and TV-series have been shot there. [2]
It was founded by Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen's company Zentropa in 1997 and is still owned and run by Zentropa. [3]
The story of Filmbyen, its people and companies are told in Thomas Vilhelm's book Filmbyen (Ekstra Bladets Forlag, 2007), [4] [5] and in the documentary Filmbyen, la nouvelle Mecque du cinéma? (Filmbyen, the new Mecca of cinema?) directed by Pablo Tréhin-Marçot (France, 2007). [6]