Andreas Dalsgaard
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About
ANDREAS M. DALSGAARD graduated from the National Film School of Denmark as a fiction film director in 2009. He has a degree in visual anthropology from Université Denis Diderot Paris VII in 2004 and a BA in Anthropology from University of Århus 2003.
“Afghan Muscles” (2007) was Dalsgaard’s debut as a documentary director, and it became a festival hit, winning Best Documentary at AFI Los Angeles and Open Eyes Award at Rome MedFilm Festival. His most recent film, “Cities on Speed - Bogotá Change” (2009) was selected for Reflecting Images at IDFA and won the audience award at IndieLisboa in Portugal. The short film “Copenhagen” (2009, fiction - winner of the CILECT Prize 2010, awarded by the world association of film schools) was Dalsgaard’s graduation film as a fiction director.
Dalsgaard is currently finishing the editing of a documentary/fiction hybrid called “Travelling with Mr. T” (co-directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont – expected release Fall 2012) which is also produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen and Anne Köhncke for Final Cut for Real.
Life Is Sacred
(2013 Spotlighting Women Documentary Award)
The Colombian politicians Antanas Mockus and Katherin Miranda struggle to reinvent an honest political culture. They’ve become Colombia’s leading opposition. They fight with clowns, pencils and their bare asses. But can they win when votes are bought, defrauded and stolen? Can they change the rules of the game? (previously titled Democrazy)