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FINAL CUT FOR REAL
FINAL CUT FOR REAL
FINAL CUT FOR REAL is a six-time Oscar® nominated production company based in Denmark, dedicated to producing high-end, creative documentaries and fiction films for the international market.Founded in 2009 by producers Signe Byrge Sørensen and Anne Köhncke, the company today also consist of producers Maria Kristensen and Esther Nissen, as well as junior producer Alberte Lyngbo Nielsen, post producer Francesc Sitges-Sardà and financial controller Gitte Randbøl. We also bring in invaluable interns every semester.We work with young directors as well as established talent to create a productive mixture of experience and innovative approaches to filmmaking. Our policy is to be curious, daring and to seek out directors with serious artistic ambitions. We work with the best cinematographers, editors, sound designers, composers and colorists in the industry, both locally and internationally.Previous productions include: A House Made of Splinters by Simon Lereng Wilmont which was nominated for an Oscar® in 2023 and won the Best Directing Award at Sundance 2022, The Killing of a Journalist (2022) by Matt Sarnecki, which premiered at HotDocs and Karlovy Vary, Raising a School Shooter (2021) by Frida & Lasse Barkfors, Our Memory Belongs to Us (2021) by Rami Farah, He’s My Brother (2021) directed by Cille Hannibal and co-directed by Christine Hanberg, President (2021) by Camilla Nielsson, which won the Special Jury Award for Cinema Verité Filmmaking at Sundance 2021, Flee (2021) by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, which received 3 Oscar® nominations in 2022, and is being released in cinemas internationally, Songs of Repression (2020) by Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner which won the main award at CPH:DOX 2020, PATRIMONIUM (2019) by Carl Olsson, awarded for “Artistic Excellence” at Moscow International Film Festival, The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017) by Simon Lereng Wilmont, which premiered at IDFA and took home the Best First Appearance Award, Dreaming Murakami (2017) by Nitesh Anjaan, premiering at IDFA, A Drowning Man (2017) by Mahdi Fleifel, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Death of a Child (2017) by Frida & Lasse Barkfors, Land of the Free (2017) by Camilla Magid, which won the Nordic DOX Award at CPH:DOX, Les Sauteurs by Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert and Abou Bakar Sidibé, which premiered at the Berlinale in February 2016, and the Oscar®-nominated films The Look of Silence (2014) and The Act of Killing (2012) by Joshua Oppenheimer.
PRODUCER and CEO
PRODUCER and CEO
Signe Byrge Sørensen is a four-time Oscar® nominee for producing The Act of Killing (nominated Best Documentary Feature 2014), The Look of Silence (nominated Best Documentary Feature 2016) and Flee (nominated Best Documentary Feature and Best Animated Feature 2022). She was nominated for the Producer’s Guild Award for The Look of Silence and Flee, and won Cinema Eye Awards for all three films.
Signe Byrge Sørensen has been a producer since 1998, first at SPOR Media, later at Final Cut Productions, and she then co-founded Final Cut for Real ApS in 2009. While at SPOR Media she was the Danish co-producer for Steps for the Future. She holds an MA in International Development Studies and Communication Studies from Roskilde University, Denmark, 1998 (1st). She is a graduate of EURODOC (2003), EAVE (2010), ACE (2018) and Inside Pictures (2022).
In 2014 Signe Byrge Sørensen received the Roos Award, which acknowledges an extraordinary contribution to Danish documentary film, and the Timbuktu Prize, which recognises critical and investigative journalistic approaches. In 2016 she received the IB Award given by the Danish Directors’ Association.
She is a member of the Danish Film Academy, the European Film Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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