Rebel Pictures
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Jesper Tønnes and the crew working beside the camera and red car on Nothing Ventured.

Rebel Pictures · Our story

FROM DV TO 65MM.

Why we make films

Cinema is something we share.

We make films to bring people into a story and give them something to carry with them.

We love the craft that makes this possible: the care in an image, the rhythm of a scene and the skills a crew brings together. But it begins with being an audience ourselves. We know what it feels like to sit in a dark cinema and be moved alongside people we’ve never met. That’s the experience we want to pass on, in our own stories and the films we make for others.

Director Jesper Tønnes at the camera on Nothing Ventured
Jesper Tønnes · Director and founder

Independent film company · Copenhagen

Built on a love of craftsmanship.

Rebel Pictures is an independent film company founded in 2018 by director Jesper Tønnes. We bring a crew together around each film and work wherever the story takes us.

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Our work spans commercials, short films and longer narrative projects, including award-winning productions. Today, we are developing our first original feature, drawing on the experience of our own productions and work on larger Danish and international film sets.

It began with a DV camera, friends and films made as a teenager in south-western Jutland. Jesper learned the language of cinema by writing, shooting and editing. Each film was a chance to try more, understand more and take the ambition a little further.

That curiosity became the foundation of Rebel Pictures. Since then, the crews have grown and the work has taken us from those first digital recordings to 65mm film. Along the way, Jesper has worked as an assistant director and first AD on productions including Copenhagen Cowboy and Loving Adults.

We are now bringing that experience into the development of Sidste Heat, our first original feature. The desire to tell stories is the same. The craft and the people around each film have grown with it.

An ARRICAM ST being prepared on Nothing Ventured. Photograph: Jeppe Broch Jacobsen.

Our conviction

Low budget.High precision.

We want to give ambitious cinema a real chance to exist. Low Budget – High Precision is our way of taking that ambition seriously. It grew out of the experience of having to find our own path from the first idea to the finished film.

We take care because a crew’s time and skill are valuable. Because a strong scene deserves our full attention. And because an audience should feel that someone had a purpose in making the film. The way we work can change from one project to the next. The care and love for the craft stay with us.

In development

We have several projects in development. Here, we open the door to Sidste Heat, our first original feature film.

Sidste Heat · Feature in development

The hardest race is the way home.

A former speedway rider returns to the sport and a closed community shaped by loyalty, silence and pressure. Sidste Heat is a sports drama about the person behind the helmet and the price of belonging.

Months of research and test shoots at Danish speedway tracks have shaped our proof of concept: a first encounter with the film’s atmosphere and visual direction.

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Get in touch

Let’s make some trouble.

rebelpicturesmail@gmail.com