AlphaVille Pictures Copenhagen

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AlphaVille Pictures Copenhagen
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Founded2003
Founders Christoffer Boe, Tine Grew Pfeiffer
FateActive
Headquarters,
Denmark

AlphaVille Pictures Copenhagen is a film production company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded by director Christoffer Boe and producer Tine Grew Pfeiffer in 2003, following Boe's debut feature film, Reconstruction , which was produced by Pfeiffer, at that time working for Nordisk Film. [1] Since then, the company has mainly released Boe's subsequent films. [2] The company is named after the 1965 Jean-Luc Godard film Alphaville . [3] Their first release was the feature film Allegro , directed by Boe and co-written by Boe and Mikael Wulf. [4]

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