Filmbyen

{{Short description|Film studio in Denmark}}

Filmbyen (English: Film City) is a film studio complex located in Hvidovre just outside Copenhagen, Denmark.{{cite book|author=Angus Finney|title=The International Film Business: A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vvDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA107|date=10 October 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-29503-4|pages=107–}}

Filmbyen is a former military base. It houses many film-related companies. Many films and TV-series have been shot there.{{cite book|author=Linda Badley|title=Lars Von Trier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lkalxu6qEecC&pg=PA155|year=2010|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-07790-6|pages=155–}}

It was founded by Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen's company Zentropa in 1997 and is still owned and run by Zentropa.{{cite book|author=Anne Mette Lundtofte|title=Zentropia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=80CX9uRCRqIC&pg=PT74|date=13 May 2013|publisher=Gyldendal|isbn=978-87-02-14732-2|pages=74–}}

The story of Filmbyen, its people and companies are told in Thomas Vilhelm's book Filmbyen (Ekstra Bladets Forlag, 2007),{{cite web|url=http://www.jyllands-posten.dk/protected/premium/anmeldelser/litteratur/ECE4378867/Thomas+Vilhelm%3A++FILMBYEN/|title=Thomas Vilhelm: FILMBYEN|publisher=|accessdate=19 January 2015|archive-date=19 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119163319/http://www.jyllands-posten.dk/protected/premium/anmeldelser/litteratur/ECE4378867/Thomas+Vilhelm%3A++FILMBYEN/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.b.dk/kultur/brudstykker-af-kaempen-i-dansk-film|title=Brudstykker af kﾃｦmpen i dansk film|date=6 October 2009|work=www.b.dk|accessdate=19 January 2015|archive-date=26 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326025806/http://www.b.dk/kultur/brudstykker-af-kaempen-i-dansk-film|url-status=live}} and in the documentary Filmbyen, la nouvelle Mecque du cinéma? (Filmbyen, the new Mecca of cinema?) directed by Pablo Tréhin-Marçot (France, 2007).{{cite web|url=http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/fiche/cine+-club/documentaire/143744660/filmbyen-la-nouvelle-mecque-du-cinema-.html|title=Programmes TV - Filmbyen, la nouvelle Mecque du cinéma ? - Docu-info - Cinéma - Ciné + Club - 26/01/2014 - 13H20|publisher=|accessdate=19 January 2015|archive-date=19 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119144905/http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/fiche/cine+-club/documentaire/143744660/filmbyen-la-nouvelle-mecque-du-cinema-.html|url-status=live}}