AWARDS

Maria Kristensen

'OUR MEMORY BELONGS TO US' WINS HUMAN RIGHTS DOX AWARD AT DOKUFEST / August 16, 2021 by Maria Kristensen

We are happy to announce that Our Memory Belongs to Us by Rami Farah and co-directed by Signe Byrge Sørensen has won the Human Rights DOX award at the 20th jubilee edition of DokuFest in Kosovo.

The jury stated that they “decided to recognize a film that spoke to the documentary relevance of personal and collective remembrance when marked by enactment of defiance to state violence. […] Through both a staged screening and reconstruction of events the retelling and performance of memory we are invited to ask questions about the documentary film as a vehicle of remembrance.”

Click here to read more about the announced winners of the 8 categories

'FLEE' WINS 3 AWARDS AT ANNECY / June 24, 2021 by Maria Kristensen

It was an incredible night for Flee at this year’s Annecy International Animation Festival - one of the world’s absolute leading film festivals for animation films. ‘Flee’ took home three awards - Best Original Music, the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution and last, but definitely not least: The Cristal Award for Feature Film.

Many from the team were present at Annecy and were able to accept the awards in person, which was wonderful after a year of mostly virtual festivals and appearances.

Flee is directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, and produced by Monica Hellström & Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real. Animation producer is Charlotte de la Gournerie from Sun Creature Studio. The film is coproduced by Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois (Vivement Lundi ! FR)., Charlotte Most (MostFilm SE) and Maria Ekerhovd (Mer Film NO).

Flee is in cinemas all over Denmark right now, and has premiered to fantastic reviews - book your ticket here

And click here to see the full list of award winners at Annecy.

SONGS OF REPRESSION - WINNER OF MAIN COMPETITION AND CRITIC AWARDS AT CPH:DOX 2020 / April 15, 2020 by Maria Kristensen

We are thrilled to announce that Songs of Repression, directed by Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner, was awarded both the DOX:Award (main competition award) and the Politiken:Danish:Dox (critic’s award).

We are very proud to announce that The Distant Barking of Dogs is nominated for Tvprisen 2020. The film, directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont, is nominated in the category for Best Documentary along with nine other nominees.

Tvprisen is an annual event arranged by the Danish Producers’ Association. An award show where the TV-industry acknowledges and celebrates the best Danish TV-programmes of the year.

The 2020 awards will be presented on January 18th at Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center in Copenhagen.

'THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS' WINS DANISH FILM ACADEMY AWARD / February 4, 2019 by Maria Kristensen

‘The Distant Barking of Dogs’ has been nominated for the Danish Film Academy Award, the Robert, in the category Best Documentary.

'DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS' AND 'LAND OF THE FREE' NOMINATED FOR THE BODIL AWARD / January 14, 2019 by Maria Kristensen

Both The Distant Barking of Dogs and Land of the Free are nominated for Best Documentary at this year’s Bodil Awards.

'LAND OF THE FREE' NOMINATED FOR THE DANISH TV-AWARD / January 9, 2019 by Maria Kristensen

We are happy to announce that Land of the Free has been nominated for a TV-Award by the Danish Producer’s Association.

'THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS' NOMINATED FOR A DANISH FILM ACADEMY AWARD / January 9, 2019 by Maria Kristensen

‘The Distant Barking of Dogs’ has been nominated for the Danish Film Academy Award, the Robert, in the category Best Documentary.

'DISTANT BARKING' WINS AUDIENCE AWARD AT NORDISK PANORAMA / September 26, 2018 by Maria Kristensen

We are very proud to annonce Simon Lereng Wilmont’s Distant Barking of Dogs has won Audience Award at this year’s Nordisk Panorama in Malmö.

YANCE FORD’S ‘STRONG ISLAND’ WINS AN EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING AT THE EMMYS / September 10, 2018 by Maria Kristensen

We are proud to announce Yance Ford’s Strong Island has received an Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the Emmys 2018 which was announced on the 9th of September in Los Angeles.

'ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT' SELECTED FOR TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / August 29, 2018 by Maria Kristensen

We are proud to annonce James Longley’s Angles Are Made of Light premieres at the TIFF festival on September 9th.

'THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS' WINS GRAND PRIX IN SEOUL / August 29, 2018 by Maria Kristensen

We are proud to annonce that The Distant Barking of Dogs won the Grand Prix at the 2018 EBS International Documentary Festival in Seoul, where the film also had its Korean premiere.

MORE LOVE FOR 'DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS' AND 'DREAMING MURAKAMI' / May 11, 2018 by Maria Kristensen

We're happy to announce that Simon Lereng Wilmont’s engrossing work ‘The Distant Barking of Dogs’ won yet another award. This time for Best Film in the International Competition of CinéDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival in Georgia.

'WHAT WALAA WANTS' WINS SPECIAL JURY PRIZE AT HOT DOCS / May 7, 2018 by Maria Kristensen

We're so proud that What Walaa Wants, directed by Christy Garland, won the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs 2018.

The jury said the following about the film: “We award the DGC Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature Documentary to What Walaa Wants for displaying an extraordinary bond between filmmaker and subject which then carries over to the audience. Christy Garland creates an exceptional emotional arc by focusing on Walaa’s growth and transformation.”

'STRONG ISLAND' WINS 3 CINEMA EYE HONORS / January 12, 2018 by Maria Kristensen

Last night Yance Ford's amazing and very personal documentary Strong Island won an extraordinary 3 Cinema Eye Awards. The film won in the categories Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Outstanding Achievement in Direction and Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film.

'LAND OF THE FREE' NOMINATED FOR DANISH FILM ACADEMY AWARD / January 11, 2018 by Maria Kristensen

We are immensely happy and proud that Camilla Magid's powerful Land of the Free (winner of the Best Nordic Dox award at CPH:DOX 2017) has been nominated for the Robert Prize for Best Documentary.

'A DROWNING MAN' WINS BEST SHORT AT DUBAI FILM FESTIVAL / December 13, 2017 by Maria Kristensen

On December 13 the Dubai Film Festival handed out the awards for the 14th instalment of the festival and Mahdi Fleifel's short fiction film A Drowning Man took home the Muhr Award for Best Short.

'STRONG ISLAND' WINS GOTHAM AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY / November 30, 2017 by Maria Kristensen

Yance Ford's amazing Strong Island won the award for Best Documentary at the Gotham Independent Film Awards on Sunday night, November 26 2017.

In his acceptance speech director Yance Ford said: "There is nothing exceptional about the family in Strong Island. Hard work did not spare this family from the unrelenting systemic violence that has stalked black Americans since the founding of this nation.

'A DROWNING MAN' WINS GRAND PRIX FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT AT CORK FILM FESTIVAL / November 30, 2017 by Maria Kristensen

Mahdi' Fleifel's poweful short film A Drowning Man took home the Grand Prix for Best International Short at the 62nd Cork Film Festival, held November 10-19 2017.

Since the Cork Film Festival is an Oscar® qualifying film festival the win allows A Drowning Man to join the longlist for the 90th Academy Awards in the Live Action Short Film category.

'THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS' WINS BEST FIRST APPEARANCE AWARD AT IDFA 2017 / November 23, 2017 by Maria Kristensen

We are so happy and honoured that The Distant Barking of Dogs took home the Best First Appearance Award at IDFA 2017.

The film is directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont and produced by Monica Hellström and had its world premiere at IDFA 2017.