Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards. It was screened in competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize, the International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI), the Italian online critics award (Mouse d'Oro), the European Film Critics Award (F.E.D.E.O.R.A.) for the Best Film of Venezia 71, as well as the Human Rights Nights Award. Since then, it has gone on to win a further 70 international awards, including an Independent Spirit Award, an IDA Award for Best Documentary, a Gotham Award for Best Documentary. Signe Byrge Sørensen was nominated for the PGA Award for Best Documentary in 2016 for The Look of Silence. Signe Byrge Sørensen won Cinema Eye Honors awards for the production of both The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence. Together with Joshua Oppenheimer she was the first to win this award twice. In 2014 Signe Byrge Sørensen received Denmark’s most prestigious award in documentary filmmaking, the Roos Prize. and the Danish Directors’ Guild’s Ib Prize in 2016. Signe Byrge Sørensen was in 2020 stated as the most powerful documentary producer in Denmark in a survey produced by the Danish national newspaper Politiken. Signe Byrge Sørensen lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2021 the film Flee - produced by Monica Hellström and Signe Byrge Sørensen - had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2021, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary section. At the same festival the documentary President - produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen and directed by Camilla Nielsson - won Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking. Filmography (selected) Flee (2021) President (2021) Songs of Repression (2020) A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy (2019) Dreaming Murakami (2017) A Drowning Man (2017) Land of the Free (2017) Les Sauteurs (2016) The Dvor Massacre (2015) Pervert Park (2014) The Look of Silence (2014) Life is Sacred (2014) The Act of Killing (2012) The Human Scale (2012) The Kid & The Clown (2011) In Languages We Live / Voices of the World, (2005), producer and co-director The Importance of Being MLABRI (2007), producer and co-director Everlasting Moments (2008), post production producer Football is God (2010) References External links Living people Documentary film producers 1970 births