Torben Skjødt Jensen

Torben Skjødt Jensen was born 1958 in Ålborg, studied movies from 1978-1981 at Copenhagen University. Torben Skjødt Jensen had his video-debut at Det Danske Videoværksted in 1983. He cofounded in 1984 the productioncompany ATC and later the productioncompany Englefilm. Torben was one of the pioneers experimenting with video-art in the 80's, and during this period he produced more than 100 musicvideos. In 1986 Torben Skjødt Jensen moved to Copenhagen where he in 1990 had a breakthrough with the dramadocumentary "It's a Blue World" about Danish artist Hans Henrik Lerfeldt, and won first prize at the San Sebastian filmfestival in 1991). After this success with "Its a Blue World" Torben in 1993 got to produce the rock-dokumentary "Som et Strejf", shown in cinemas as well as national TV several times. I 1996 his portrait-documentary "Min Metier" about the famous Danish director Carl Th. Dreyer was nominated for a Bodil in 1996, and received a Robert as best documentary. of the year. His portraitdocumentary "Den grimme Dreng" was in 1997 one of the most seen non-british documentaries shown on BBC. In 1999 Torbens latest documentaty "Simons Film", about the famous Simon Spies is scheduled to be shown in national TV in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. After many years with musicvideos, shortstories and documentaries and portraitmovies, Torben Skjødt Jensen will in February/March 1999 launch his first full length movie, "Manden som ikke ville dø", starring Lars Simonsen, Stina Ekblad and Ghita Nørby.