My name is Jesper Isaksen (born 1975), I'm a self-educated D.I.Y. film director, writer, editor, color grader and producer and the founder & owner of the independent Danish film company Bleed For This Picture. I was born and raised in Jutland but currently living in Copenhagen (Denmark) and have been for the past 20 years.
Bleed For This Picture is my 2nd company. My first company called 9mm Film spawned among others the short films NIMA, NO EXIT & NO EXIT 2 - RISE AGAINST.
NIMA, a home grown, low budget gangster film was shown at Danish National TV (DR1/DR2) in 2002 and launched my career in the Danish movie business and here I am, still going strong 20 years later down the road.
My third short piece NO EXIT was selected by Ridley & Tony Scott and Michael Fassbender as 1 out of 50 semifinalists amongst more than 15.000 contributions worldwide in the Global YouTube short film competition in 2012 called YourFilmFestival. The first prize was 500.000 USD. In 2013 NO EXIT went on to participate in the biggest and most prestigious short film festival in Denmark "EKKO Shortlist" and went straight to the top 10 and stayed there for 11 consecutive weeks straight.
In 2014 the follow-up NO EXIT 2 - RISE AGAINST also participated in "EKKO Shortlist" with a 1st place as the highest ranking. It went on to roam the top 10 in 13 consecutive weeks straight. NO EXIT 2 - RISE AGAINST was later nominated in two categories "The Shortlist Award" and also "The Audience Award" at EKKO Shortlist Awards 2014.
The short film comedy THE VISITOR premiered at Orlando Film festival in 2018 and also received a nomination for "Best Foreign Language Short Film". In 2019 it got selected as part of the Official Selection at the BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival and also won the "Best Comedy" award at Annual Aarhus Film Festival. It later roamed the top 10 at EKKO Shortlist 2019/2020 with a 1st place as the highest ranking.
In the fall of 2019 I finished my first feature film VICTIM OF LOVE a dense psychological and bloody yet stylish horror-thriller starring Danish powerhouse actor Rudi Køhnke IMDB. It premiered Saturday the 16th of November 2019 at the biggest feature film festival in Denmark, CPH PIX. It also received a Robert nomination by the Danish Film Academy for “Best Original Song” by Julian Winding at The Danish Film Awards 2020. Robert is equivalent to the American Oscar, the French César and the British BAFTA.
VICTIM OF LOVE has had a pretty strong festival run earning 32 wins and 53 nominations so far. It will continue its festival run in 2024 and hopefully reach even more awesome festivals and horror and genre audiences across the world. If more awards and nominations world be bestowed on VICTIM OF LOVE, it would be fantastic as well.
Danish company Another World Entertainment is distributing the film in Denmark across streaming services like Blockbuster, SF Anytime, iTunes, Apple TV, YouSee, Viaplay, Grand Hjemmebio etc.
American L.A. based Indican Pictures has picked up VICTIM OF LOVE and in collaboration with Lionsgate (The Hunger Games, John Wick, Rambo etc.) they will distribute the film worldwide in a near future starting off with North America.
