2016-04-17

Andreas Johnsen

Andreas Johnsen (1974) – director, producer, cameraman. His films have been shown at festivals all around the world and have been broadcasted in countless countries. He is renowned for such films as Kidd Life about the Danish rapper and YouTube star; A Kind of Paradise, Murderer and Ai Weiwei – The Fake Case, which in 2013 was nominated in IDFA’s “Feature Length Competition”, in Berlin 2014 at Cinema for Peace Awards and won the Danish Film Critics Award in 2014. For him filmmaking is about giving in to his driving force: curiosity. Making films has become his way of investigating, experiencing, and coming to know the world. This dedication to curiosity and empathy with his subject are clearly expressed in the resulting films. His latest movie Bugs will be shown during 13 Millennium Docs AG FF.