Sigrid Dyekjær

Producer Sigrid Dyekjær has produced over 20 documentary films during the last 16 years. Amongst them "Ai Weiwei - The Fake Case" by Andreas Johnsen (recent winner of the film critics' award in Denmark, the Bodil, and nominee at IDFA's feature length competition in 2013). She also produced "Free the Mind" by Phie Ambo, "A Normal Life" by Mikala Krogh (winner of the Audience Award at CPH:DOX), was executive producer on "Ballroom Dancer" (winner of Nordic Panorama 2012, and Best Documentary Film at Raindance 2012 [UK], and opened Taiwan Film Festival). Additionally "The Good Life", "The Monastery", "Mechanical Love" and "Cairo Garbage". Sigrid is one of the most experienced producers in Denmark when it comes to financing and production of both national and international documentary films. In 2015 she was awarded with The Ib Award. An award given by the Danish directors to honor the best producer in the Danish film industry. Sigrid teaches at the National Film School of Denmark and at DOK Incubator, an initiative supported by Media, and she also holds master class lectures at film schools around the world and courses in documentary filmmaking like "Bridging the Gap". In 2014 she produced both Mikala Krogh's film "The Newsroom - Off The Record" about the insides of a major Danish newspaper, and Oscar-nominee Hanna Polak's "Something Better To Come". For this she was nominated at The Producers Guild of America Awards 2016 for Outstanding Producer of Documentary. Sigrid is now a member of The Producers Guild of America.