Lasse Nielsen

Lasse Nielsen is a writer/director known for his "coming of age" films, particularly stories featuring gay adolescents.

Credits

2013 Happy Birthday (Short film) - Life can be frustrating for a 14-year-old boy in Denmark, where the age of consent is 15. ^[1]
2010 Lek and the Waterboy (Short film) - 14-year-old Lek works in his mother's shop. While his best friend flirts with a new girlfriend, Lek has decidedly different fantasies.^[2]
2010 The Story of Net (Video) - Orphaned by the death of his mother, 12-year-old Net searches for a father he never knew. Based on real events and developed in a community workshop. ^[3]
1978 You Are Not Alone - (see film page)
1975 Leave Us Alone (Film) - Leave Us Alone (Danish: La' os være) is a 1975 Danish drama film directed by Ernst Johansen and Lasse Nielsen. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] The plot is similar to that of Lord of the Flies: A group of teenagers are stranded on an uninhabited island, and an initially pleasant vacation turns into a nightmare. ^[4]