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 Heidi Elise Christensen, Maria Kristensen and Esther Nissen and post producer Francesc Sitges-Sarda, with Gitte Randløv as our financial controller and Alberte Lyngbo Nielsen as Junior Producer. The company also brings 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.