Final Cut for Real

Final Cut for Real ApS
TypePrivate limited company
IndustryDocumentary film
Founded2010
HeadquartersCopenhagen, Denmark
Key peopleSigne Byrge Sørensen, Anne Köhncke
ProductsFilm
Websitewww.finalcutforreal.dk

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.

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 (since 2010) 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 co-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

Awards

Flee
President
HUSH
Songs of Repression
PATRIMONIUM
What Walaa Wants
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Dreaming Murakami
A Drowning Man
Land of the Free
Les Sauteurs
Pebbles at Your Door
Pervert Park
Far from Home
Life is Sacred

Vilnius IFF Kino Pavasaris 2015 - Audience Award

The Look of Silence
Chikara –The Sumo Wrestler’s Son
The Act of Killing
The Human Scale
The Kid and the Clown

References

  1. ↑ "A House Made of Splinters". Cineuropa. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Nordisk Film & TV Fond".