Lene Pels Jørgensen and Colleen Keane are the principals of the company.

They work and liaise with a talented group of outside consultants if needed.

 

Lene Pels Jørgensen

 

has created and maintained many contacts and networks between Hollywood and Scandinavia over the past 20+ years. She has worked in the fields of visual media and culture for almost 25 years in Denmark, Italy, New York, and Los Angeles.

While studying at the Royal Art Academy's Architecture School in Copenhagen, Denmark, Lene worked as a graphic designer for cutting edge publications and organizations in film and video production and was part of a trend setting video arts milieu in Copenhagen. Her art video “Love In A Fridge” won acclaim before circulating festivals around the World.

 

She studied Method Acting and Directing at the Strasberg Theater Institute and Actors Studio in NY and LA before studying Content Creation for Film + TV at UCLA from 1999-2002 and went on to co-found the video-collective Digital Kitchen at Greenway Court Theater in Hollywood.

While building networks in NY and LA in the mid-90's, Lene maintained close ties to and assisted Denmark’s most acclaimed theater director, Peter Langdal, at the Betty Nansen Theater when he brought Method Acting to Denmark with a Master Class series with Tony Greco, making this approach to acting and directing available to Danish actors and directors, many of whom, like Peter Gantzler and Lars Bom went on to become highly successful.

She has appeared in film and Danish TV including the Emmy Award Winning series Unit One starring Mads Mikkelsen.

Lene founded the Danish Film Festival in 2004 after reviving the non-profit organization Scandinavian American Arts Foundation, of which she's the CEO. SAAF presents Danish Film Fest : LA. She is the Creator and Director of this film festival.

She curated the exhibition series STUDIO DENMARK, featuring a large group of Danish artists showcasing photography, conceptual art, furniture design, jewelry art and glass and ceramic art at Gallery ASTO, LA 2003; at Gallery Sculpture To Wear, LA 2003 and 2006; L.A. International Biennal Art at Bergamot Station, LA 2003; and DNA Gallery, Solana Beach 2004. In 2006 she curated Danish Jewelry 3-2-1 at Gallery Sculpture To Wear.

She's an active member of Cultural Frontrunners, a group started in 2006 by the Minister of Culture and Press at The Royal Danish Embassy in Washington DC.

For 14 years she worked freelance as Private Chef and Special Event planner for hundreds of Hollywood clients, amongst them PRINCE, Mariah Carey, Forbes 400 member Jeffrey Greene and many more.

She is also a photographer married to actor/writer/director Paul Marius Hansen and is the mother of 12-year old Jasper Julian.

 

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Colleen began her legal entertainment career at the CBS Inc. offices.  She escaped to Southern California to pursue her dreams of working in the film industry.

She now has more than 20 years (and counting) of experience in various functions, most in the legal departments of studios and productions companies.   Her wide variety of experience, such as two years at Imagine Films, 12 years at New Regency Productions as well as tenures at MGM/UA, Energy Productions, Live Home Video and currently more than four years at Regent Entertainment, encompasses positions such as production coordinator, paralegal, contract administrator, clearance administrator, credits administrator, music administrator and, most recently, as Director of Legal Services where her primary function is the legal delivery of films.  She has recently taken on marketing duties as well. This varied experience has made given her the ability to work a film from pre-production through distribution and into peripheral release.  The more than 100 films Colleen has worked on include “Parenthood,” “Heat,” the “Free Willy” series, “Time to Kill,” “Fight Club,” “Empire Records,” “Mr & Mrs Smith,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Man on Fire,” Academy nominee “L.A. Confidential” and the 2009 Foreign Film Oscar winner from Japan, “Departures.”

 

Add her creative experience as a dancer and choreographer as well as a band manager and performance coach for musicians to make her a well-rounded individual with the knowledge and understanding to assist you in your needs.