Final Cut for Real
Final Cut for Real ApS is a film production company based in Copenhagen, Denmark specializing in documentaries for the international market. The two Oscar-nominated groundbreaking documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) helped establish the company as a recognized provider of independent creative documentaries on the international stage. The recent years, Final Cut for Real has also expanded to fiction films and virtual reality. In 2019 Final Cut for Real Norway was established.
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| Type | Private limited company |
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| Industry | Documentary film |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Key people | Signe Byrge Sørensen, Anne Köhncke |
| Products | Film |
| Website | www |
History & Overview
Final Cut for Real was founded in 2010 by the producers Signe Byrge Sørensen and Anne Köhncke, editor Janus Billeskov Jansen and film director Joshua Oppenheimer.
The company today consists of two additional producers, Monica Hellström and Heidi Elise Christensen, VR Producer/Post-Producer & Production Manager Maria Kristensen and Post-Producer & Editor Francesc Sitges-Sarda.
The company is based at Indiakaj in the former Freeport area of Copenhagen. Final Cut for Real has produced more than 30 documentaries, minor co-produced more than 20 documentaries and even produced a few feature films, among them Sundance winner The Nile Hilton Incident.
The productions of the company has been selected to a number of international film festivals, the documentaries has been part of e.g Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Moscow International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival), Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF), Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and others.
Filmography
- Flee (2021)
- President (2021)
- HUSH (2020)
- Songs of Repression (2020)
- Meanwhile on Earth (2020)
- Patrimonium (2019)
- What Walaa Wants (2018)
- Death of a Child (2017)
- The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)
- Dreaming Murakami (2017)
- A Drowning Man (2017)
- Land of the Free (2017)
- Les Sauteurs (2016)
- The Dvor Massacre (2015)
- Pebbles at Your Door (2015)
- Pervert Park (2014)
- The Look of Silence (2014)
- Life is Sacred (2014)
- TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013)
- Chikara –The Sumo Wrestler’s Son (2013)
- Säilöttyjä unelmia (2012)
- Gulabi Gang (2012)
- The Act of Killing (2012)
- The Human Scale (2012)
- Traveling with Mr. T. (2012)
- Hjemvendt (2011)
- Verdens bedste kok (2011)
- The Kid & The Clown (2011)
Awards
- The Act of Killing
- CPH:DOX 2012 – DOX:AWARD
- Berlin Film Festival 2013 – Panorama Audience Award
- Berlin Film Festival 2013 – Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
- !F Istanbul 2013 – Prize of the SIYAD jury (Turkish Film Critics' Association)
- Danish Film Academy 2013 – Best Feature Documentary
- FICUNAM, Mexico 2013 – Audience Award
- ZagrebDox, 2013 – Movies that Matter Award
- One World, Prague 2013 – Best Film
- Geneva International Human Rights Film Festival 2013 – Gilda Vieira de Mello Prize
- Danish Film Critics Association – Special Prize 2013 (Sær-Bodil)
- Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes 2013 – Grand Prize
- Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes 2013 – Special Mention, Critic's Jury
- IndieLisboa 2013 – Amnesty International Award
- BelDocs 2013 – Grand Prix for Best Film
- DocumentaMadrid 2013 – First Prize of the Jury
- DocumentaMadrid 2013 – Audience Award
- Planete + Doc Warsaw 2013 – Audience Award
- Planete + Doc 2013 – Grand Prix of Lower Silesia
- DocsBarcelona 2013 – Best Film Award (Grand Prize)
- Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 – Grand Prize
- Biografilm Festival Italy 2013 – Grand Prize
- Grimstad Short and Documentary Film Festival 2013 – Grand Prize
- Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival 2013 – Basil Wright Prize
- Human Rights, Human Dignity Int. Film Festival Myanmar – Aung San Suu Kyi Award for Best Documentary
- Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 – Audience Award
- The Human Scale
- Aljazeera Int. Documentary Film Festival 2013 – Winner of the Child and Family Award for Long Film
- Planete Doc, Warsaw 2013 – Green Cross Award
- The Kid and the Clown
- Aljazeera Int. Documentary Film Festival 2012 – Winner of the Child and Family Award for Medium Categories
- HotDocs 2012 – In competition: Medium Length Documentary
- TRT Documentary Awards 2012 – Winner of the first Special Prize in the International Category
- Kraków Int. Documentary Film Festival 2012 – Winner of the Silver Horn Award for Best Middle-length Documentary
- Pärnu Film Festival 2012 – Winner of Best Film for Kids