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Jesper W. Nielsen
Danish film director and editor (born 1962) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jesper Westerlin Nielsen is a Danish film director, known for Okay (2003) , The Day Will Come (2016), and several TV series.
Early life and education
Nielsen was born in 1962, and in 1989 graduated as a film editor from the Den Danske Filmskole (Danish Film School).[1][2]
Career
Early in his career, Nielsen edited feature films by Anders Refn, Thomas Vinterberg and Erik Clausen.[2] He then became noted as a director of children's films, such as Retfærdigheden rytter (1989), The Last Viking (1997) and Forbudt for børn (1998).[2]
In 2003, he made his breakthrough with the critically acclaimed adult drama film Okay, for which he was awarded the Dreyer Award.[2][3][4] He is also known the film The Bouncer,[5] and the TV series Pagten.[6][7][8]
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