CPH:DOX Awards 2008

17. nov 2008. At the closing gala of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen's international documentary film festival (7-16 November 2008), films and filmmakers were honoured with the following awards:

Thank You, Google Earth

10. nov 2008. Janus Billeskov Jansen has done a bit of everything in his long career as a film editor. Even so, "Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country" was a challenge out of the ordinary, not least owing to…

Barefoot Reporter in Burma

10. nov 2008. Following a string of successful documentaries, Anders Høgsbro Østergaard plunged into deep water with a film about video activism in Burma. Initially conceived as a small story about personal…

Film Me! Film Me!

10. nov 2008. The network of independent video reporters operating in Burma today, coordinated by, among others, the Democratic Voice of Burma, is far from unique. The phenomenon of video activism has been around…

Arranged Marriages Thais & Danes

10. nov 2008. The films take us to a windblown corner of North Jutland, where 575 Thai women live with their Danish husbands. Fifteen years ago there was only Sommai, a former sex worker from Pattaya. Opening with…

Roskilde Never Leaves You

01. nov 2008. Ulrik Wivel spent eight years gathering footage for his film about the Roskilde music festival, a fourday frenzy where, the director says, “It’s hard not to experience ecstasy.”

Portrait of A Class Society

01. nov 2008. Among today’s most sympathetic spokesperson for young Danes is Anders Gustafsson, Swedish filmmaker whose documentary, co-written and directed with Patrick Book, "Little Miss Grown-Up", underscores…

Happy People?

01. nov 2008. Study after study reports Danes the world’s happiest people and Denmark the world’s best country to live in. It’s sometimes tempting to think of our cosy Scandinavian nook as ‘paradise on earth’…

We Are Red We Are White, We Are Danish Dynamite

01. nov 2008. This chant was heard across the land in the 1980s, a decade when the Danish national football team played better than ever before. A new documentary, "Danish Dynamite", is an enthusiastic and…

Beautiful Moments

01. nov 2008. In his final year of television at the National Film School of Denmark, Andreas Koefoed has already two films selected for IDFA. "12 Notes Down", partly biographical, is about a gifted choir boy…