Mette Hjort is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Hong Kong and Associate Professor in Aalborg University in Denmark. She has written, edited and co-edited a number of books, including Cinema and Nation (2002) and The Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema (2001). Scott MacKenzie is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is co-editor of Cinema and Nation (2000) and author of Screening Quebec: Quebecois Cinema, National Identity and the Public Sphere. (2002).