Sigrid Dyekjær

Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær (born Sigrid Jonsson 28 September 1969 Copenhagen) is a Danish film producer. She was awarded The Ib Award. Life Sigrid Dyekjær studied dramaturgy at Aarhus University and subsequently worked at the advertising agency Young & Rubicam before entering the film industry. Dyekjær has produced numerous documentaries, receiving several awards. Her debut documentary, "Detour to Fr...

Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær (born Sigrid Jonsson 28 September 1969 Copenhagen) is a Danish film producer. She was awarded The Ib Award. Life Sigrid Dyekjær studied dramaturgy at Aarhus University and subsequently worked at the advertising agency Young & Rubicam before entering the film industry. Dyekjær has produced numerous documentaries, receiving several awards. Her debut documentary, "Detour to Freedom" (2001), was nominated for a film award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Pernille Rose Grønkjær's film, "The Monastery " (2006), won the top prize at IDFA, along with 80 other film awards worldwide. "The Good Life" (2011), directed by Eva Mulvad, won the Best Feature-Length Documentary award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. "Ballroom Dancer" (2011) won the Best Newcomer Director award for Documentary and received a Special Jury Mention at the Tribeca Film Festival. Mikala Krogh 's "A Year of Hope " (2017) was selected for a film award at IDFA. Eva Mulvad's "Love Child" (2019) screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. She produced MERKEL (2022) by Eva Weber that premiered at Telluride Film Festival. Hanna Polak's Something Better to Come (2014) won several international awards, including a Special Jury Prize at IDFA. The Cave (2019) by Feras Fayyad won the Audience Award for Documentary Film at the Toronto Film Festival. Sigrid Dyekjær, along with Feras Fayyad and Kirstine Barfod, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary and won two Emmys. Dyekjær has also been involved in a number of international co-productions, such as Ulrich Seidl's Safari (2017), which premiered at the London Film Festival, and Victor Kossakovsky's Watercolora (2018), which was selected for the Venice Film Festival. In 2007, she became a co-owner of the production and distribution company Danish Documentary Production A/S. She collaborated with Newen Studios to found the Real Lava production company. Filmography Hunting for Hedonia, 2019 The Cave, 2019 Solutions, 2021 Innocence, 2022 Apolonia, Apolonia, 2022 The Territory, 2022 Merkel, 2022 Under the Sky of Damascus, 2023 Food and Country, 2024 Viktor, 2024 A Photographic Memory, 2024 Democracy Noir, 2024 All the Empty Rooms, 2025 All About the Money, 2026 References