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Mette Hoffman Meyer

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Mette Hoffman Meyer is the founder and CEO of The Why Foundation, an organisation that produces and distributes documentaries all over the world. Mette was previously head of documentaries and co-productions at Denmark’s public service broadcasting cooperation DR, and editor of the factual series Documania on DR channel 2.

 

Hoffman Meyer has helped finance films like the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, The Queen of Versailles and the U.S.-Danish co-productions: Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer and the Sundance award-winning film The Red Chapel. She has also spearheaded the Why Poverty? projects, a series of eight films aired by 70 broadcasters, reaching more than 500 million people worldwide.