Frederikke Aspöck
Frederikke Aspöck (b.1974) holds an MFA in Filmmaking from Tisch, NYU. Empire is her fourth feature and her first-period piece. Her previous films have won major awards at international film festivals such as The Golden Star Award, at Marrakech for Out of Bounds (2011) and Best Director at Moscow for Rosita (2015). Out of Tune (2019) became a Danish box-office hit. Common for all of Aspöck’s films is a great belief in flawed human beings and a conviction that comedy and tragedy always go hand in hand.