Sara Isabella Jønsson (Writer)

Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn

Show creator Nicolas Winding Refn and his team detail how they brought the stoic heroine and dark fairy tale version of Copenhagen's netherworld to life.

Release Date2023-01-26

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

Copenhagen Cowboy

After a lifetime of being sold as a human good luck charm, a woman with mysterious supernatural abilities seeks revenge against those who wronged her.

Release Date2023-01-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count117

Dark Horse

Under mysterious circumstances, 17-year-old Anna and her mother, Eva, move from China to a small Danish provincial town. Until now, Anna has lived a rootless life with her mother, who, in pursuit of new experiences with different men, has left a trail of failed relationships around the world. Over the years, the two have built a dysfunctional symbiosis where Eva's dominant behavior has turned Anna into a pleaser towards her mother.

Release Date2024-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

September

Else is stood up by her daughter and instead finds herself in the company of two other middle-aged women at a seaside hotel, where a very different day takes shape. Everyone in the unlikely trio has their own problems that make it difficult to see clearly and make the right decisions, and Else in particular must decide whether she wants to live life to the fullest. Perhaps life doesn't have to be so boring, even if you're over 60.

Release Date2017-06-19

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

For Juliane

Acclaimed theater director Erik Werner is setting up a stage play dramatizing memories from his marriage to his wife Juliane who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. During the process Erik discovers that he and Juliane have had vastly different experiences of their shared life together. Experiences that will make Erik see his marriage in a new light.

Release Date2019-06-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Good Mothers

A quiet suburban community is shaken by the alleged sexual assault of a teenage boy by two of his peers. As the town reels, successful real estate agent Anne Sofie discovers her own son may be more involved than she imagined. Determined to protect him and the family's reputation, she makes a choice that sets her on a collision course with the other boys' mothers, Sarah and Ulrikke. As accusations against her son begin to spread, the pressure mounts and to shield her family, Anne Sofie pins the blame on one of the other boys. But as her relationships fracture and her moral compass wavers, she’s forced to make a life-altering decision.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Miss Osaka

Ines, who wants to change who she is and become someone else in order to cover up her insecurities. When she accompanies her boyfriend Lucas on a business trip to Norway, Ines meets a half-Japanese tourist, Maria, who instantly fascinates her. Suddenly Maria disappears, and Ines seizes the opportunity to replace her – she declares herself dead and travels to Japan in order to take over Maria's identity. There, she will get a job at Miss Osaka, the same nightclub where Maria used to work. A game of broken boundaries, lost identities and the dangerous balance between reality and the past has begun, and Ines must abide by the new rules by avoiding the more obscure paths.

Release Date2021-09-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Persona Non Grata

The film is a comedy drama about a young woman, Laura, who has distanced herself from her family in the country to settle in Copenhagen as an author and live the artistic bohemian life she has always dreamed of. When she, with much reluctance, goes back home for her brother’s wedding, she realises that he is about to marry her childhood enemy, Catrine. At the same time, Laura finds out that Catrine has in fact taken over her place in the family – and what if Laura wants it back … A film about how we, no matter how hard we try, cannot escape from our past, nor from our roots.

Release Date2021-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count15

Gold Coast

Young anti-colonial idealist Wulff leaves for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation but not everything goes according to plan.

Release Date2015-07-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count21

The Messenger

While striving for the top digital messenger spot Flash makes a fatal error putting young love in jeopardy. Now he must risk everything he has worked for in order to make it right or save his reputation.

Release Date2018-06-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter