Director: Jens Pedersen Producer: Maria Stevnbak
Westergren
Description:
11-year-old
Javed from Bangladesh hasn't attended school in years and dreams of
becoming a professional surfer.
Biography: Jens Pedersen is
educated from Roskilde University and San Francisco State University.
Pedersen has directed a number of documentary films, among others the
series Faith Hope Afghanistan and Kids on the Silk Road.
An episode from Faith Hope Afghanistan won the Audience Award
and the Award for Best Documentary at BUSTER Film Festival in 2014,
and both series have had several episodes selected for a number of
festivals such as IDFA.
Maria Stevnbak
Westergren career in the film business started in 2001 working as
a backpacker at a bar in Darwin where a jug of free beer
started a 3 month journey at sea from Australia to
Indonesia, meeting pirates on the international documentary
project Kijana 5 Lost at Sea. Since then, documentary film
making has flourished into also producing animation and fiction
for Toolbox Film.
