- Occupation
Director
- Country
Denmark, Finland
Andersen Niels Pagh
Born in 1958, Niels Pagh Andersen started his career as an assistant to two of Denmark’s most important editors: Christian Hartkopp and Janus Billeskov Jansen. Since 1979, freelance film editor, more than 250 films, including: Dying - A Part of Living (dir. Dola Bonfils); Pathfinder (dir. Nils Gaup, Academy Award nomination); Betrayal (dir. Fredrik von Krusenstjerna, Nordic Panorama Prize 1995); The War Within (dir. John Fuegi and Jo Frances, IDA Best Documentary 1996); Portal to Peace (dir. Thomas Stenderup, Krakow IFF 1997); Welcome to Denmark (Odense FF 2003); The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (dir. Pirjo Honkasalo, 2004 Venice IFF, Amnesty Prize, IDFA, CPH:DOX, PrixItalia); Everlasting Moments (dir. Jan Troell, 2008), etc. Has worked and lectured in Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, Fiji, Brazil, USA. Recently he received the Roos Prize awarded by the Danish Film Institute for outstanding efforts in documentary filmmaking.