Final Cut for Real ApS is a Copenhagen, Denmark based production company specializing in documentaries for the international market.
Thomas Stenderup founded Final Cut Productions in 1993. Its first films, two documentaries, were released in 1995. Mikael Opstrup was a co-producer in the company from 2002 until 2008. Signe Byrge Sørense, its current CRA, joined the firm in 2004.
In late 2008, both Stenderup and Opstrup decided to leave the company. To complete ongoing projects, Signe Byrge Sørensen then started Final Cut for Real in collaboration with Anne Köhncke, who had previously worked with Final Cut for a year. The company is based at Indiakaj in the former Freeport area of Copenhagen.
Signe Byrge Sørensen, CEO & Producer
Anne Köhncke, Producer
Monica Hellström, Producer
Maria Kristensen, Production Manager/Assistant Producer
Andreas M. Dalsgaard, Director
Joshua Oppenheimer, Director
Simon Lereng Wilmont, Director
Football is God (2010)
Klovn for livet (2011)
Hjemvendt (2011)
Verdens bedste kok (2011)
Säilöttyjä unelmia (2012)
Gulabi Gang (2012)
The Act of Killing (2012)
The Human Scale (2012)
Traveling with Mr. T. (2012)
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013)
The Kid and the Clown
Aljazeera Int. Documentary Film Festival 2012 – Winner of the Child and Family Award for Medium Categories
HotDocs 2012 – In competition: Medium Length Documentary
TRT Documentary Awards 2012 – Winner of the first Special Prize in the International Category
Kraków Int. Documentary Film Festival 2012 – Winner of the Silver Horn Award for Best Middle-length Documentary
Pärnu Film Festival 2012 – Winner of Best Film for Kids
The Act of Killing
CPH:DOX 2012 – DOX:AWARD
Berlin Film Festival 2013 – Panorama Audience Award
Berlin Film Festival 2013 – Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
!F Istanbul 2013 – Prize of the SIYAD jury (Turkish Film Critics' Association)
Danish Film Academy 2013 – Best Feature Documentary
FICUNAM, Mexico 2013 – Audience Award
ZagrebDox, 2013 – Movies that Matter Award
One World, Prague 2013 – Best Film
Geneva International Human Rights Film Festival 2013 – Gilda Vieira de Mello Prize
Danish Film Critics Association – Special Prize 2013 (Sær-Bodil)
Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes 2013 – Grand Prize
Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes 2013 – Special Mention, Critic's Jury
IndieLisboa 2013 – Amnesty International Award
BelDocs 2013 – Grand Prix for Best Film
DocumentaMadrid 2013 – First Prize of the Jury
DocumentaMadrid 2013 – Audience Award
Planete + Doc Warsaw 2013 – Audience Award
Planete + Doc 2013 – Grand Prix of Lower Silesia
DocsBarcelona 2013 – Best Film Award (Grand Prize)
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 – Grand Prize
Biografilm Festival Italy 2013 – Grand Prize
Grimstad Short and Documentary Film Festival 2013 – Grand Prize
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival 2013 – Basil Wright Prize
Human Rights, Human Dignity Int. Film Festival Myanmar – Aung San Suu Kyi Award for Best Documentary
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 – Audience Award
The Human Scale
Aljazeera Int. Documentary Film Festival 2013 – Winner of the Child and Family Award for Long Film
Planete Doc, Warsaw 2013 – Green Cross Award
