Life Is Sacred
TFI Suppport
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(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)
Andreas Dalsgaard
Director
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.
Nicolas Servide
Director
NICOLAS SERVIDE STAFFOLANI, born in Argentina, has lived in Spain, Ireland and Denmark and is an Argentinean and Spanish citizen. He has studied Sound Engineering at Temple Bar Music Centre in Ireland (1999-2000), and communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain (2002-2008) and at Roskilde Universitetscenter in Denmark (2007).
Nicolas has worked as an editor at numerous prestigious companies in Copenhagen, including the Danish Film Institute. He has experience as sound designer, graphic designer, editor and narrative consultant.
Viviana Gomez
Director
VIVIANA GOMEZ ECHEVERRY studied Social Communication in the Javeriana University of Bogota, and also photography for cinema and television in the school of cinema Seventh Ars in Madrid, Spain. She has experience in the audio-visual sector in different positions, as much in Colombia as in Spain. Vivianna Gomez Escheverry has also photographed shorts, art videos, commercials and television programs.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Producer
Born 1974, Texas, USA. Joshua Oppenheimer has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins, London, his award-winning films include The Globalization Tapes (2003, co-directed with Christine Cynn), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998, Gold Hugo, Chicago), These Places We’ve Learned to Call Home (1996, Gold Spire, San Francisco) and numerous shorts. Oppenheimer is Senior Researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Genocide and Genre project and has published widely on these themes. Director and co-producer of The Act of Killing, 2012.
Signe Sorensen
Producer
Signe Byrge Sørensen has been a producer for 14 years. She began in SPOR Media in 1998, moved to Final Cut Productions ApS in 2004 and founded Final Cut for Real ApS in 2009. She has produced documentaries in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Thailand, Argentina, Denmark and Sweden. She was the Danish co-producer for Steps for the Future in Southern Africa. She holds an MA in International Development Studies and Communication Studies from Roskilde University, Denmark, and is a graduate of both EURODOC (2003) and EAVE (2010). She has lectured at Roskilde University, the University of Århus, the Danish Film School, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and on the documentary training courses ESODOC and ExORIENTE.
Amongst the films that Signe has produced are: The Act of Killing (2012), by Joshua Oppenheimer, The Kid and the Clown (dir. Ida Grøn, 2011), Football Is God (dir. Ole Bendtzen, 2010) and Letters from Denmark (dir. 10 Danish directors, 2006). She has also produced and co-directed (with Janus Billeskov Jansen) Voices of the World (2005) and The Importance of Being Mlabri (2007). She was the post producer on Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments (2008), which won six national awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Her latest film is The Act of Killing By Joshua Oppenheimer.