Signe Byrge Sørensen

CEO & Producer
+45 4118 4890
byrge@final-cut.dk

Signe Byrge Sørensen is a four-time Oscar® nominee for producing The Act of Killing (nominated Best Documentary Feature 2014), The Look of Silence (nominated Best Documentary Feature 2016) and Flee (nominated Best Documentary Feature and Best Animated Feature 2022). She was nominated for the Producer’s Guild Award for The Look of Silence and Flee, and won Cinema Eye Awards for all three films.
Signe Byrge Sørensen has been a producer since 1998, first at SPOR Media, later at Final Cut Productions, and she then co-founded Final Cut for Real ApS in 2009. While at SPOR Media she was the Danish co-producer for Steps for the Future. She holds an MA in International Development Studies and Communication Studies from Roskilde University, Denmark, 1998 (1st). She is a graduate of EURODOC (2003), EAVE (2010), ACE (2018) and Inside Pictures (2022).
In 2014 Signe Byrge Sørensen received the Roos Award, which acknowledges an extraordinary contribution to Danish documentary film, and the Timbuktu Prize, which recognizes critical and investigative journalistic approaches. In 2016 she received the IB Award given by the Danish Directors’ Association.
She is a member of the Danish Film Academy, the European Film Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Maria Kristensen

Producer / Post Producer / VR Producer
+45 4062 6690
maria@final-cut.dk

Maria has a Master's degree in Film Studies (2010) where she wrote her thesis on ethics in satirical documentary film. She has been a post-producer, line producer, production manager, and on-set manager for both short films and fiction films since 2004. Since 2011 she has worked at Final Cut for Real.
 She has a passion for (new) technology and post-production, and has produced VR works , alongside her work on FCFR’s documentary films - such as Vibeke Bryld's Havfolket Kalder Mørknet Vand / HUSH, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020 and has had months-long exhibition periods at museums in Copenhagen, Thy and North Jutland.
She has participated in Twelve for the Future (2009), as well as CPH:LAB during CPH:DOX (2019).

ESTHER NISSEN

Producer
+45 2729 8807
esther@final-cut.dk

Esther Nissen holds a BA in Media Studies from Aarhus University and a MA in Film and Media Studies from the University of Copenhagen, with a specialty in creative business processes. 
Esther has worked as a producer, production manager and as part of the production crew on various short films, tv series and feature films since 2014. She began her career working freelance on fiction projects and moved over to documentary projects when she joined Final Cut for Real in 2019. She wants to produce films that can make an impact on society and play a role in creating a more just world.

Alberte lyngbo nielsen

Junior Producer
+45 2670 2452
alberte@final-cut.dk

Alberte Lyngbo Nielsen has a mixed academic background in anthropology, culture and language studies. She holds a Master of Arts from Aarhus University specialised in indigenous cultures and how colonial power structures can be fought peacefully through artistic initiatives. She also holds a BA from the University of Copenhagen in Spanish language, literature and culture and has studied and worked in Mexico and Spain mainly within the fields of cultural anthropology, diplomacy and cross-cultural reconciliation. She has been working in the film industry since 2021 and aspires to become a creative producer of films that narrate the stories of those whose voices are typically left unheard.

FRANcESC SITGES-SARDÀ

Post Producer / Editor
+45 2234 3465
francesc@final-cut.dk

Francesc Sitges-Sardà has worked as a film and sound editor in documentary, commercial, feature film and theatre since 2004. He started as a post producer at Final Cut for Real in October 2019. He graduated in Film Editing in 2002 from ESCAC (Catalan School of Cinema and Audiovisuals) in Barcelona with a dedicated university exchange  stay in image and sound post production at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic University in Singapore. He has been skilled within a broad range of musical studies such as classical and jazz piano and musical language at The Music School of Barcelona, Taller de Musics and other specialized courses and stages abroad. Still playing. He’s been freelancing in Barcelona until 2012. Then he moved to New York City, also working as a freelancer, mainly at Harbor Picture Company (The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Dead don't die, The Wolf of Wall Street, ...) for 6 years.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Director & Co-Owner

Joshua Oppenheimer is a two-time Oscar® nominated film director born in the USA. His debut feature film, The Act of Killing (2014 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary), was named Film of the Year in the 2013 by the Guardian and the Sight and Sound Film Poll, and won 72 international awards, including a European Film Award, a BAFTA, an Asia Pacific Screen Award, a Berlinale Audience Award, and the Guardian Film Award for Best Film. His second film, The Look of Silence (2016 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary), premiered at the 71st Venice Film Festival, where it won five awards, including the Grand Jury Prize, the international critics award (FIPRESCI Prize) and the European film critics award (FEDEORA Prize). Since then, The Look of Silence has received 73 international awards, including an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, an International Documentary Association Award for Best Documentary, a Gotham Award for Best Documentary, and three Cinema Eye Honors. In 2015, Joshua Oppenheimer received a MacArthur Fellowship (popularly known as ’the genius grant’).

Janus Billeskov Jansen

Editor & Co-Owner

Janus Billeskov Jansen entered the Danish film industry in 1970 and in 1973 he was the lead editor in charge on a feature film for the first time. He has edited a large number of internationally acknowledged feature films and documentaries, and directed numerous Danish documentaries. Since 1979 he has been teaching editing and narratology at The National Film School of Denmark. Janus has cooperated with most of the influential Danish directors in the past 30 years; most significant is the lifelong creative relationship with the Academy Award winning director Bille August.

Anne Köhncke

Producer & Co-owner, CEO of FCFR Norway
+45 5354 6043
anne@final-cut.dk

Anne Köhncke, originally from Norway before moving to Copenhagen in 1997, has been a producer since 2009 when she co-founded Final Cut for Real. Prior to producing, she worked as Commissioning Editor of documentaries at DR2 and as Sales Executive at TV2 World, selling documentaries. She holds an MA in film from the University of Copenhagen, is an EAVE graduate and a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Anne is CEO of our Norwegian sister company Final Cut for Real Norway and is based in both Norway and France.

Ida palmqvist

Intern
ida.p@final-cut.dk

Ida is in the final semester of her bachelor's degree in European Ethnology at the University of Copenhagen. She is passionate about using documentaries as a visual medium to share insights into cultural anthropology and shed light on overlooked narratives. She gained experience in film production at the creative production company Blonde Inc. and later refined her communication and storytelling skills while working as a junior consultant at Enestående Kommunikation & PR.

Anna Krysalna

Intern
anna@final-cut.dk

Anna has an academic background in Comparative Literature and Germanic Languages, with a strong focus on cultural exchange and language education. She holds a BA from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is currently pursuing an MA at the University of Copenhagen.

Anna has experience working as a production assistant, language educator, and cultural project manager. She has collaborated with Danish and Ukrainian institutions to foster educational and artistic initiatives. With a background in film production from KBH Film & Fotoskole, she is passionate about storytelling and cross-cultural narratives.