Boris Benjamin Bertram
Also recorded as Boris B. Bertram
Boris Benjamin Bertram
- Born
- 1971
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Occupation
- cinematographer · film director
- Education
- National Film School of Denmark · Roskilde University
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Key facts
• Name — Boris Benjamin Bertram
• Born — 1971 12 29
• Occupation — Film director, cinematographer, producer
Boris Benjamin Bertram (born 29 December 1971) is a Danish film director, keynote speaker, producer and partner in Good Company Pictures, a documentary production company based in Copenhagen.
Life and career
Bertram studied documentary film making at National Film School of Denmark and Social Psychology and Communication at Roskilde University.
Bertram worked as a radio journalist at Copenhagen Homeless Radio. In 1999, he joined the creative department of Zentropa Real and worked on the documentaries The Five Obstructions and The Erotic Man as an assistant director with Lars Von Trier and Jørgen Leth. He has directed a few television series for DR1 and TV2.
Bertram's films focus on international issues and conflict resolution. In 2018, he directed the documentary The Human Shelter with the support of IKEA, with both concerned to talk about what makes a home around the world.
In 2019, he directed Photographer of War, which follows Danish war photographer Jan Grarup. The film was nominated for a Robert Award from the Danish Academy Awards.
Filmography
• An Elephant in the Room (2020) – Executive producer
• Prelle – In My Own Voice (2020) – Executive producer
• Photographer of War/Krigsfotografen (2019) – Film Director, cinematographer
• Don't Give a Fox (2019) – Executive Producer
• The Human Shelter (2018) – Film Director, producer
• False Confessions (2018) – Executive Producer
• Heroes of Hell/Helvedes helte (2014) – Film Director
• The War Campaign/Krigskampagnen (2013) – Film Director
• The Seduced Man/Det forførte menneske (2011) – Film Photographer
• The Erotic Human (2010) – Assistant director: Brazil
• Chips & Liver Girls (2010) – Film Director
• Tank City/Tankograd (2009) – Film Director
• Diplomacy: The Responsibility to Protect (2008) – Film Director
• Great Danes/Store danskere (2005) – Film director
• My Beirut (2005) – Film Director
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Awards
• Film — Year — Category — Film festival
• War Photographer — 2020 — Nominee Robert Best Documentary Shared with: Katrine Sahlstrøm (producer) — Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 2020 — Prague, One World Human Rights Film Festival
• 2019 — Lübeck, Nordische Filmtage
• 2019 — Leipzig, Festival for Documentary and Animation
• 2019 — São Paulo, Int. Film Festival
• 2019 — Malmö, Nordisk Panorama
• Chips & Liver Girls — 2011 — Rotterdam, International Film Festival
• 2010 — CPH:DOX
• Tankograd — 2011 — Helsinki, Doc Point Documentary Film Festival
• 2010 — Hot Docs International Documentary Festival
• 2009 — Nominee Amnesty Award — CPH:DOX
• Diplomacy- the responsibility to protect — 2008 — Odense Internationale Film Festival
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- 1.The Human Shelter by Boris Bertram Premieres in Ney York. The Metalocus.
- 2."The Human Shelter Screening and Q&A". The Design Museum. Retrieved on 5 May 2020
- 3.Boris Benjamin Bertram. Danish Film Institute.
- 4.MY BEIRUT / Danish Film School / Retrospectives / Programme / 2012 / ZAGREBDOX International documentary film festival. zagrebdox.net.
- 5.Film: Human Shelter, dir. Boris Benjamin Bertram, 2018. Supamodu. 2 November 2019.
- 6.«Documentary About Human Shelter Shows the Poetry, Power and Resilience of "Home"». Arch Daily. Retrieved on 5 May 2020
- 7."The Human Shelter: Wherever that may be". The Hindu. Retrieved on 5 May 2020
- 8.leipglo. Photographer of War: three perspectives, one DOK. The Leipzig Glocal. 17 November 2019.
- 9."Boris has spent five years on his film and was shot by sniper". DR Culture. Retrieved on 5 May 2020
- 10."Tankograd". Hotdocs 2010. Retrieved on 5 May 2020
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