The scriptwriting masterclass hosted by award-winning Danish writers Dorte Hogh & Jens Dahl explored various screenwriting themes and key techniques on what it takes to move from being a writer to a showrunner and the various skills required for each.
Dorte Warnoe Hogh is a screenwriter and journalist, living in Copenhagen, Denmark. After 10 years of being a journalist, doing both radio and televison as a host, she decided to go to the Danish Film School and soon became a screenwriter. She did her first feature film The Inheritence with Danish award-winning director Per Fly and won several international prizes. In 2009 she was Oscar-nominated for The Pig, a short film she wrote and also directed. Today she is one of the most experienced Danish women writers and showrunners for tv-series in Scandinavian. Both drama and crime has her interest. Her latest work is When The Dust Settles, an original ensemble series, following eight characters 5 days before and 5 days after a terror attack in Cph. And the Top Crime series based on a novel, The Chestnut Man, watched by millions of viewers all over the world on Netflix.