The international production team of American and Danish filmmakers includes:
Narrator: The film's narrator,
Garrison Keillor, himself an esteemed writer and radio host has put his finishing touches on the script. He is a well-known broadcast celebrity with intimate knowledge of Denmark, its history, and its people.
Producers / Directors / Writers: Uniquely positioned to produce The Danish Solution are filmmakers
Camilla Kjærulff (Danish) and
Karen Cantor (American). Ms. Kjærulff's fluency in the Danish language and intimate knowledge of the Danish film community is complemented with Karen Cantor's combined corporate and arts background.
Directors of Photography and Sound:
Jesper Bæk Sorensøn and
Vibeke Winding are experienced news photographers and documentary filmmakers in their native Denmark.
Editor: Well-known in Scandinavia,
Anders Refn has produced both powerful realistic genre films and major literary adaptations, writing and directing feature films such as Black Harvest, The Flying Devils, The Heritage, and The Strømer. He served as the art director on Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark which among numerous prestigious awards won the Golden Palms at the Cannes Film Festival, and editor of Trier's Academy Award-winning Breaking the Waves.
Composer: Harold Stephán, http://www.magikmusic.com, is a songwriter, record producer, programmer & arranger. He has written and produced music licensed to MTV's new hit show "Camp Jim," as well as the sultry "Undressed", ESPN's "Xtreme Games", CBS TV and Disney's popular teen show "In A Heartbeat". With his writing partner, Amelia Gewirtz, he has written and recorded two full length albums for their band
Amelia's Dream.
Consulting Producers and Creative Consultants: Danish Consulting Producer,
Poul Erik Skammelsen, is anchor of the highly acclaimed Danish weekly news magazine program, Dags Dato (Today's Date), broadcast on Denmark's TV2 Denmark. He is former U.S. correspondent and bureau chief based in Washington D.C. for TV 2 Denmark.
John Füegi, the American consulting producer, and Jo Francis, creative consultant, have produced, written, and directed Red Ruth: That Deadly Longing, winner of the 1993 Danish Television Oscar and the Silver Diploma of the Prix Futura in Berlin; The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf won the Distinguished Feature Award of International Documentary Network and the Golden Apple of National Educational Media Network; and In the Symphony of the World: A Portrait of Hildegard von Bingen which received Silver Documentary Awards at Philadelphia and Houston Film Festivals 1999.