FINAL CUT FOR REAL is a five-time Oscar® nominated and four-time Sundance winning production company based in Denmark, dedicated to producing high-end, creative documentaries and fiction films for the international market. Founded in 2009 by producers Signe Byrge Sørensen and Anne Köhncke, the company today consists of three additional producers, Monica Hellström, Heidi Elise Christensen and Maria Kristensen, as well as post producer Francesc Sitges-Sardá. Gitte Randløv is our financial controller. The company also brings in invaluable interns every semester.

We work with young directors as well as established talent to create a productive mixture of experience and innovative approaches to filmmaking. Our policy is to be curious, daring and to seek out directors with serious artistic ambitions. We work with the best cinematographers, editors, sound designers, composers and colorists in the industry, both locally and internationally.

Most of our films are co-productions in which we either lead as producers or support as co-producers. Our international collaborators include: Piraya Film, Sant & Usant and Mer Film in Norway; Story, Atmo, De Andre, Malin Andersson Film, Vilda Bomben, Anagram and Nonami in Sweden; Making Movies, Oktober and Tuffi Films in Finland; SP Films in Ireland; Murmur Media in Canada; Spring Films in the UK and Louverture Films in the US.

Recent titles: Our Memory Belongs to Us (2021) by Rami Farah, President (2021) by Camilla Nielsson, which won the Special Jury Award for Cinema Verité Filmmaking at Sundance 2021 Flee (2021) by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, which won the World Cinema Documentary Award at Sundance 2021, and is being released in cinemas internationally, Songs of Repression (2020) by Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner which won the main award at CPH:DOX 2020, PATRIMONIUM (2019) by Carl Olsson, awarded for "Artistic Excellence" at Moscow International Film Festival,The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017) by Simon Lereng Wilmont, which premiered at IDFA and took home the Best First Appearance Award, Dreaming Murakami (2017) by Nitesh Anjaan, premiering at IDFA, Drowning Man (2017) by Mahdi Fleifel had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Death of a Child (2017) by Frida & Lasse Barkfors, Land of the Free (2017) by Camilla Magid, which won the Nordic DOX Award at CPH:DOX, Les Sauteurs by Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert and Abou Bakar Sidibé, which premiered at the Berlinale in February 2016, Oscar®-nominated The Look of Silence (2014) and Oscar®-nominated The Act of Killing (2012) by Joshua Oppenheimer.

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PRODUCTION TEAM
- SIGNE BYRGE SØRENSEN, CEO & Producer
- Anne KÖHNCKE, Producer & Co-owner
- Monica HELLSTRÖM
- Heidi Elise CHRISTENSEN, Producer
- Maria KRISTENSEN, Production Manager / Post Producer / VR Producer
- Francesc SITGES-SARDÀ, Post Producer / Editor
- Janus BILLESKOV JANSEN, Editor & Co-Owner
- RebeccaTHAO VY PHAM, Intern - Alberte LYNGBO NIELSEN, Producer Assistant
- Chiara LIBERTI, Erasmus Scholar

DIRECTORS:
- Joshua OPPENHEIMER
- Camilla MAGID
- Carl OLSSON
- Christy GARLAND
- Frida BARKFORS
- Lasse BARKFORS
- Jonas POHER RASMUSSEN
- Nitesh ANJAAN
- Simon LERENG WILMONT
- Camilla NIELSSON
- Rami FARAH
- Sun Hee ENGELSTOFT
- Vibeke BRYLD
- Marianne HOUGEN-MORAGA
- Estephan WAGNER
- Anders SKOVBJERG JEPSEN
- Nils GIVERSEN
- Cille HANNIBAL