Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: CPH:DOX Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm On Taking Copenhagen Festival To No. 1
deadline.comWhat’s the biggest documentary festival in the world? The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. For now. Upstart CPH:DOX in Copenhagen aims to overtake IDFA as the top showcase for nonfiction film worldwide.
On the new episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we sit down with CPH:DOX Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm for a conversation about the growth of the festival in the Danish capital and how he aims to make it No.
1. Engstrøm argues that CPH:DOX has been central to the emergence of Denmark as one of the most important hubs for documentary on the planet.
It’s a country of less than 6 million that has produced a remarkable number of Oscar-nominated documentary directors and producers in recent years, including Signe Byrge Sørensen, Monica Hellström, Simon Lereng Wilmont, Jonas Rasmussen, Sigrid Dyekjær and Kirstine Barfod.
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