ABOUT THE FILM

This documentary will look into the nature of Love Addiction. It will search to understand what creates the addiction and describe the heights and lows this remarkable addiction causes. The film must be told with respect through the lives and personal stories of Love Addicts. Love Addiction is a very delicate matter and in order to fully understand this addiction it is very important to experience it through the eyes of the addicts. This personal approach is important in order to create identification and thereby sympathy.

Would you like to share your story with us please send us an email describing in short your relation to Love Addiction. In October and November 2008 we are talking to Love Addicts and the people around them in order to find participants for the film.
Send your email to: loveaddictiondoc@gmail.com

E-MAIL US YOUR STORY

Acclaimed Danish documentary filmmaker Pernille Rose Grønkjær is currently working on a documentary on Love Addiction and we are looking for Love Addicts or people around Love Addicts e.g. therapists, families, friends or lovers to participate in this film.

Send your email to: loveaddictiondoc@gmail.com

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Acclaimed director Pernille Rose Grønkjær (born in 1973) has been working with documentary films for the past 10 years. Her latest feature documentary "The Monastery – Mr. Vig and the Nun" had its US premiere at the esteemed Sundance Film Festival 2007. Since then the film has travelled to about 60 festivals the world over. It has won 14 awards from Sydney to Moscow, including the prestigious Joris Ivens Award in Amsterdam, and recently The Cinema Eye Award in New York. The film was also nominated for best documentary at The Spirit Awards in Los Angeles, California 2008.

AWARD LIST:
THE MONASTERY – Mr. Vig and the Nun.

1st Prize - Best International Feature
Cinema Eye Award, New York (US) 2008

1st Prize - Best Documentary
Bodil Awards (Denmark) 2008

1st Prize - Full Frame Grand Jury Award
Full Frame Festival, Durham (US) 2007

1st Prize - The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award
Full Frame Festival, Durham (US) 2007

1st Prize - Chicago Doc Grand Prix
Chicago International Doc Festival 2007 (US) 2007

1st Prize - Millennium Award
Planete Doc Review Film Festival (Poland) 2007

1st Prize - The Kino magazine Award
Planete Doc Review Film Festival (Poland) 2007

1st Prize - Canvas Award
Docville Film Festival (Belgium) 2007

1st Prize - FIPRESCI Award for Best Documentary
Sydney Film Festival (Australia) 2007

1st Prize - Audience Award
Moscow International Film Festival (Russia) 2007

1st Prize - The Joris Ivens Award
IDFA, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 2006