Peter Hammer

REVIR - EVERYTHING YOU HOLD DEAR

Peter Hammer is a filmmaker and researcher. He holds an MA in artistic research in and through cinema from the Dutch Film Academy. His research centres on imagination as a critical mode of emancipation from dominant narratives, taking cues from coincidences and encounters. He's an award-winning director and creative producer of documentaries and experimental factual programming with the Danish Broadcasting Cor- poration. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the Danish School of Media & Journalism. He began his career in 2005 as an investigative reporter, exposing foul play and chasing crooks but soon became interested in a more artistic and cinematic approach to image-making, story, and character.

Anne Wivel

JUST BEFORE DEATH

Graduated in painting from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1977. Graduated from the National Film School of Denmark, 1980. Founder of the production company Barok Film from 1999. She has directed awardwinning feature documentaries such as “Giselle”, “Land of the Human Beings” and “Svend”. Beside her filmmaking she is a trusted teacher at the National Filmschool of Denmark.

Vixtoria Salomonsen

I AM AN OTHER / MY FIRST HOME

Vixtoria is a photographer and director. I Am An Other is their debut short film. Their work takes on topics such as youth, identity and queer with an intimate view in both film and photographs. Their work has been shown at CPH:DOX, Fotografisk Center, Kaltblut Magazine and at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Vixtoria Salomonsen graduated from the photo school Fata Morgana in 2017 , finished their bachelor in photography at KABK in 2023, and is now based in Berlin.

Thora Lorentzen

ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS

With an educational background as a journalist and a filmmaker, Thora has contributed to DR TV with a number of tv documentaries while becoming increasingly interested in an elevated personal storytelling. Her previous titles, presented at festivals worldwide,  include “This Place We Call Home”, “Love and Fear”  and “Enten Eller”, the film that concluded her studies at the National Film School of Denmark as film director. Her debut project since film school - the youth documentary series “Absolute Beginners” won the Prix Europa for Best European Documentary Series 2021.

Vibe Mogensen

LOVE BOUND

Vibe graduated as a documentary director from the National Film School of Denmark in 1994. She has made a number of documentaries for DR and TV2 as well as theatrical releases. In 2005 she directed 'Min fars sind', about her father's mental illness. She was head of production at Medieskolen i Lyngby from 2005 to 2018 and has given lectures in documentary film making at several other schools.  “Love Bound” is her most recent film, project, is a documentary about those who care for adult children with a mental health diagnosis.

Kathrine Skibsted

LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT / FOREVER YOUNG FOREVER OLD - A LOVE STORY

Kathrine Skibsted is a director and she had her first appearance at CPH:DOX 2021 with her two films; “Loves me, loves me not” and short film “Forever Young Forever Old - A Love Story”. "Loves me, loves me not" was nominated for the Politiken:Danish:Dox Award and is now showing at DRTV.
Kathrine has been interested in the work of photography ever since she was a teenager, but spent a lot of years searching for her calling. Among other things she studied to be a carpenter and social worker, but now she's a director at the independent Danish film school, 18Frames. Her work and interests take on topics as love, friendship, gender structures, addiction and suburban living.
In 2019 she won the DR Talent Award (with Andrine Moland and Caroline Mathilde Salic), which led to the making of “Loves me, loves me not”.

Hind Bensari

WE COULD BE HEROES

Born in 1987 in Casablanca, Hind quit her job as Business Development Manager of a media fund in London to produce and direct her first documentary "475: Break the Silence" released in May 2013 in Morocco. Self-taught, she launched a crowd-funding and social media campaign to raise awareness on the practice of marrying young girls to their rapist and put together a team to shoot around Morocco and ask the question "how have we come to believe that marriage could be a just reparation to rape?" as the premise of the documentary. “We Could Be Heroes” is her first feature and it was awarded Best International Feature at Hot Docs in 2018. Hind lives in Paris.

Visit Hind's blog of curated documentaries and articles here

Karen Stokkendal Poulsen

THE AGREEMENT / ON THE INSIDE OF A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

Karen is a director and scriptwriter. She graduated with a Master of Arts in “Screen Documentary” from Goldsmiths College, London, in 2008. In addition to her work as a director, Karen has an educational background in Political Science, in which she holds a bachelor’s and Masters degree from the University of Copenhagen. Her documentary The Agreement was selected for competition at CPH:DOX 2013 and for the Dragon award at Göteborg International Film Festival, the human rights festival and many more.

Tanja Wol Sørensen

A COLOMBIAN FAMILY / MOVING TARGET

Tanja is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist, born in Seoul, South Korea. She holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester (2012) and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen (2014).

In her current film work she continues to work with themes concerned with family structures, separation and the human aspects of political conflict.

Mads Kamp Thulstrup

FALL OF THE KINGS

Mads is a director, known for directing several episodes of the award winning and internationally acclaimed Danish TV-series "Bedrag / Follow the Money" (2015-16) and "Arvingerne / The Legacy" (2014). Prior to that Mads directed two episodes of the Emmy award winning TV-series "Livvagterne / The Protectors" (2009). His first feature, the documentary "... Og det var Danmark / Danish Dynamite" (2008) won the prestigious award "Best Feature-length Documentary" at Copenhagen International Documentary Festival CPH:DOX in 2008. The film opened in as many as 80 theatres across Denmark on May 9th 2008, an unbeaten record for a documentary film. Mads graduated from the National Film School of Denmark as a director in 2005.

Charles Atlas

TURNING

New York-based video artist and film maker Charles is known for his long-term collaboration with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Together the two have explored the space and opportunities that film and video can give movement and dance in a thrilling body of work that constitutes ground-breaking ways into the synthesis of dance and film. Charles has been collaborating with amazing performers such as Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Leigh Bowery, Marina Abramovic and Anohni. His  work has been exhibited at the New Museum, New York, Tate Gallery, Venice Biennale and many other places worldwide.

Marcus Lindeen

THE RAFT

Marcus is an artist, writer and director. He studied directing at Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm and made his debut with Regretters, both a theater play and a documentary film about two Swedish men who change their sex twice. In 2011 his second film Accidentes Gloriosos premiered at The Venice Film Festival and won the prize for best medium-length film in the Orizzonti section. Then he proceeded to write two plays The Archive of Unrealized Dreams and Visions, A Generation Lost (2013), and a performance Wild Minds. The Raft premiered at CPH:DOX film festival in Copenhagen where it picked up the main award.

Inuk Silis Høegh

SUMÉ - THE SOUND OF A REVOLUTION

Inuk is a Greenlandic artist and filmmaker. He graduated from the University of Bristol with a Master of arts in Film and TV production and as an artist from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. His documentary "Eskimo Weekend" from 2002, followed a Greenlandic rock band over a weekend, and has been credited for challenging the stereotypes about Inuit People. In 2013 he made a gigantic iceberg, an art installation called Iluliaq installed in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Canada. “Sumé--” is  the first international feature documentary film from Greenland, and premiered at Berlinale in 2014.

Sturla Pilskog

WINTERS YEARNING

Sturla holds a master in visual anthropology from the University of Tromsø. He has been working as both a producer and director for the Norwegian production company Blåst Film. He co-directed the documentary short Ice Handscape with Are Pilskog.  Together with Sidse Torstholm Larsen he co-directed Jakten på det nye Norge. Continuing their collaboration they made the documentary Winter's Yearning, which was premiered on CPH:DOX Nordic Award and has been nominated for a Bodil award in 2020. He is now living in Copenhagen and focusing on directing creative documentaries.

Sidse Torstholm Larsen

WINTERS YEARNING

Sidse is a Danish filmmaker from Copenhagen. She holds a master  in Visual Anthropology from the University of Tromsø. She graduated with a thesis and a film, Living on the Ice, on a halibut fishing community in Ilulissat, Greenland. Sidse has studied Inuit Culture in Greenland and has since directed the short film Alianaak about a Greenlandic football team in Copenhagen. Together with Sturla Pilskog she directed the award winning documentary Winter's Yearning, which was premiered on CPH:DOX Nordic Award and has been nominated for a Bodil award in 2020. Besides directing, Sidse works as an editor for Danish public broadcaster DR.

Joanna Rubin Dranger

MISS REMARKABLE AND HER CAREER

Joanna refers to herself as a “graphic storyteller” because she works with both words and illustrations. She made her debut as a director of “Miss Remarkable and Her Career” which is an extraordinary graphic animation, based on the graphic novel of the same name, also drawn and written by Joanna.The film has so far received four different awards and a lot of fantastic reviews. Joanna has received plenty of prestigious prizes for both her novels and her work as an illustrator. She has been a professor at the “School of Fine Arts” in Stockholm and an active critic of idiosyncratic representation in the arts.

Tine Katinka Jensen

SOLANGE ON LOVE / WILD GIRLS

Tine passed away in 2015 after battling cancer for many years. She was core to the establishment of Bullitt Film and she directed two films with us: ”Solange on Love” that won Best Danish Documentary at CPH:DOX in 2008, and “Wild Girls” in 2013 that shed light on marginalized teenage girls and instigated a much needed debate in Denmark on the subject.

Tine graduated from the Danish Film School in 2005 with the prominent portrait film “Angie”. Alongside her work with creative documentary, she made television series especially for a young audience. During her first period of illness she directed “Tine´s Film” in collaboration with her husband Poul Berg. During her many years with severe illness she became a treasured speaker at conferences about quality of life. You can see her moving and powerful films here on the site. We miss her very much.

Lars Emil Leonhardt

DADDY

Lars Emil Leonhardt has his first appearance with this film, selected for Cph:Dox 2020 and DR TV Documentary slot, as well as for Hot Docs Official Competition. Born in Denmark Lars holds a master degree in Culture Studies. His love for cinema started when he moved to Copenhagen. Without friends in Copenhagen he spent the next couple of years watching films in Cinemateket and went from watching Beverly Hills and American Pie to watching John Cassavetes, Claire Denis, Werner Herzog.