Camilla Nielsson

Réalisatrice et scénariste danoise.

Camilla NIELSSON est une réalisatrice, scénariste et anthropologue visuelle.

Elle est connue pour DEMOCRATS (2014, Réalisatrice), PRESIDENT (2020, Réalisatrice).

Camilla NIELSSON est née à Copenhague (Danemark), en 1977.
Formée à la Tisch School of the Art. Elle possède un Master en Anthropologie visuelle de l'Université de New York (NYU). Depuis 2000, elle travaille comme cinéaste indépendante et consultante média auprès de l'UNESCO et de l'UNICEF.

DEMOCRATS (2014)
PRESIDENT (2020)
Elle a réalisé entre autres, une trilogie documentaire sur le droit des enfants : "Good Morning Afghanistan" (2003), "Durga" (2004) et "The Children of Dafur" (2005).

Source:
http://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/filme_view_web.php?fid=7572
http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/person/en/183729.aspx?id=183729
Traduit de l'anglais par Thierno I. Dia

Danish documentary film director and visual anthropologist.

Camilla NIELSSON is a documentary film director and visual anthropologist.

She is known for DEMOCRATS (2014), PRESIDENT (2020).

Camilla NIELSSON - Born in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 1977.
Camilla Nielsson was a Fulbright Scholar at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (NYU), and in the Dept. of Anthropology (NYU), where she studied documentary filmmaking and visual anthropology from 1997-2000. She has directed the documentary short trilogy Good Morning Afghanistan (2003), Durga (2004), and The Children of Darfur (2005), about children's rights, and Mumbai Disconnected (2009), in the Cities on Speed series.
Since 2000 she has been working as an independent filmmaker and a media consultant for UNESCO and UNICEF.

Camilla Nielsson's first feature documentary DEMOCRATS (2014), has screened at more than 80 film festivals, and won 20 awards and nominations, including Best Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival 2015, and Best Documentary at Nordic Panorama 2015. In 2021 Camilla was the recipient of the Roos Award, which recognizes an extraordinary contribution to Danish documentary film.

Among others, she has directed a documentary trilogy about children's rights: "Good Morning Afghanistan" (2003), "Durga" (2004) and "The Children of Dafur" (2005).

Short Filmography
DEMOCRATS, DK, 2014 / Documentary, 100 Min.
CITIES ON SPEED: MUMBAI DISCONNECTED, DK 2009 / Documentary, 58 Min.
CHILDREN OF DARFUR, DK 2005 / Documentary, 24 Min.

Awards and nominations
* Best Documentary Award:Camilla Nielsson - 2015 - New York Tribeca Film Festival 2015 - Democrats
* Jury Award for Best ConScience Documentary - 2015 - Leuven, Docville 2015 - Democrats
* Special Jury Mention - 2014 - CPH:DOX 2014 - Democrats
* REEL TALENT AWARD - 2014 - CPH:DOX 2014 - Democrats

Source:
http://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/filme_view_web.php?fid=7572
http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/person/en/183729.aspx?id=183729

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CAMILLA NIELSSON - Kopenhagen, 1977. Die gebürtige Dänin absolvierte ein Studium der Visuellen Anthropologie an der New York University. Seit 2000 arbeitet sie als unabhängige Filmemacherin und Medienberaterin für UNESCO und UNICEF. DEMOCRATS (2015) ist ihr erster abendfüllender Dokumentarfilm.

DEMOCRATS, DK 2015, 100 Min.
CITIES ON SPEED: MUMBAI DISCONNECTED, DK 2009, 58 Min.
CHILDREN OF DARFUR, DK 2006, 24 Min.

Source:
www.dokfest-muenchen.de/filme_view_web.php?fid=7572&lang=de

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DANSK
Instruktør, født 1977. Camilla Nielsson er uddannet dokumentarinstruktør på Tisch School of the Arts og har en Mastergrad i visuel antropologi fra New York University (NYU). Hun har også arbejdet som mediekonsulent for UNICEF og for UNESCO.

Hun har instrueret en trilogi om børnerettigheder "Good Morning Afghanistan" (2003), "Durga" (2004) og "The Children of Darfur" (2005). 2007 begyndte hun samarbejdet med den israelske videokunstner Yael Bartana om "And Europe Will Be Stunned" (2011) og "Demonstrators" (2012), som var en del af Re:Constructed Landscapes (Statens Museum for Kunst/CPH:DOX 2012).

Camilla Nielssons dokumentarfilm "Democrats" (2015) er en film om det politiske magtopgør i forbindelse med udarbejdelsen af en ny forfatning i Zimbabwe.