Webmaster (film)

Webmaster (original title Skyggen, also known as The Shadow) is a 1998 Danish cyberpunk thriller film.^[1][2]

Skyggen
Directed by	Thomas Borch Nielsen
Written by	Thomas Borch Nielsen
Produced by	Søren Juul Petersen
Starring	Lars Bom Puk Scharbau Jørgen Kiil Karin Rørbeck
Cinematography	Lars Beyer
Edited by	Kasper Leick
Music by	Arne Schultz
Distributed by	Scanbox (Denmark) Sterling Home Entertainment (US)
Release date	1998 (1998)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish

Directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen, it stars Danish actor Lars Bom as the cerebral, machine-like hacker-turned-webmaster J.B., who performs his job while hanging upside down, wearing virtual reality goggles, his mind busy deep inside cyberspace. Upon witnessing a murder, he teams up with the impulsive, energetic Miauv (Puk Scharbau).

The film furthermore won a Silver Grand Prize at the 1999 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, and a Danish Robert Award^[3] for Best Production Design.

The movie was financed by the Danish bank "Forstædernes Bank"^[4] and the final production cost was not disclosed by neither producers nor the director. When the movie was released in Denmark in 1998 it was met with mixed reviews.^[5]