Jury

Niels Pagh Andersen

Niels Pagh Andersen started his career as an assistant in fiction film when he was 16 years old. Since 1979, he has worked as a film editor and has edited more than 250 widely different films. 

Among them are the fiction films The Pathfinder (Academy Award Nominee) and Everlasting Moments (Golden Globe Nominee), as well as the documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence (both Academy Award Nominees). Besides his work as an editor, Andersen lectures and teaches at workshops, film festivals, film schools, and universities worldwideand also works as a supervising editor.

  

In 2005, Andersen won the prestigious Danish Lifetime Achievement award, The Roos Prize, for his outstanding achievements in documentary filmmaking. In 2012, he became a professor of editing at The Norwegian Film School. In 2021, he published the book Order in Chaos: Storytelling and Editing in Documentary Films.