Signe Byrge Sørensen
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Born | 6 March 1970 |
Occupation | Film producer |
Signe Byrge Sørensen (Danish:
Life and career
Signe Byrge Sørensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, she grew up in Maribo, Denmark. Signe Byrge Sørensen holds an MA in International Development Studies and Communication Studies from Roskilde University, Denmark. She did the European co-production courses EURODOC in 2003, EAVE in 2010 and ACE in 2018.
Signe Byrge Sørensen began producing films in SPOR Media in 1998, moved to Final Cut Productions ApS in 2004 and co-founded Final Cut for Real ApS in 2009 with Anne Köhncke.
In 2007, Signe Byrge Sørensen made contact to American film director Joshua Oppenheimer after seeing a portion of his footage from Indonesia during a seminar at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival,
In 2012, The Act of Killing premiered at the
The Act of Killing won the
Signe Byrge Sørensen's next film with Joshua Oppenheimer The Look of Silence from 2014 is a companion piece to The Act of Killing. This production was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards. It was screened in competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize, the International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI), the Italian online critics award (Mouse d'Oro), the European Film Critics Award (F.E.D.E.O.R.A.) for the Best Film of Venezia 71, as well as the Human Rights Nights Award. Since then, it has gone on to win a further 70 international awards, including an Independent Spirit Award, an IDA Award for Best Documentary, a Gotham Award for Best Documentary.
Signe Byrge Sørensen was nominated for the
In 2014, Signe Byrge Sørensen received Denmark’s most prestigious award in documentary filmmaking, the Roos Prize.[4] and the Danish Directors’ Guild’s Ib Prize in 2016.[5]
Signe Byrge Sørensen was in 2020 stated as the most powerful documentary producer in Denmark in a survey produced by the Danish national newspaper Politiken.[6] Signe Byrge Sørensen lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In 2021, the film Flee - produced by Monica Hellström and Signe Byrge Sørensen - had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2021, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary section. At the same festival the documentary President - produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen and directed by Camilla Nielsson - won Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking.
Filmography (selected)
- Flee (2021)
- President (2021)
- Songs of Repression (2020)
- A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy (2019)
- Dreaming Murakami (2017)
- A Drowning Man (2017)
- Land of the Free (2017)
- Les Sauteurs (2016)
- The Dvor Massacre (2015)
- Pervert Park (2014)
- The Look of Silence (2014)
- Life is Sacred (2014)
- The Act of Killing (2012)
- The Human Scale (2012)
- The Kid & The Clown (2011)
- In Languages We Live / Voices of the World, (2005), producer and co-director
- The Importance of Being MLABRI (2007), producer and co-director
- Everlasting Moments (2008), post production producer
- Football is God (2010)
References
- ^ "The 86th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
- ^ "Not enough hours in the day for us to talk".
- ^ "2016". 14 October 2016.
- ^ "Roos Pris til producer, der gør en forskel".
- ^ "Årets 'IB'-pris gives til producer Signe Byrge Sørensen | Danske Filminstruktører". www.filmdir.dk. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Danmarks mest magtfulde producer interesserer sig for ondskab - politiken.dk". 13 June 2020.
External links
- Signe Byrge Sørensen at IMDb