Mikael Opstrup

Denmark

Mikael Opstrup

producer, developer, consultant

A specialist in international documentary project development, trailer consultancy, co-productions, workshop planning & tutoring. Author of ‘THE UNCERTAINTY – A book about developing Character driven Documentary’ (2021).

Head of Studies at European Documentary Network, EDN (2011-19), creator and editor of EDNs Co-production Guide.

Worked for IDFA (The Netherlands), Hot Docs (Canada), Nordisk Panorama (Nordic), Institute of Documentary Film (Czech Rep.), Baltic Sea Docs (Latvia), Docs Barcelona (Spain), In-Docs (Indonesia), Dox Box (Syria & Germany) – all in all more than 50 documentary organizations across the world.

Produced international documentaries for a couple of decades, latest as co-owner of Final Cut Productions in Copenhagen, Denmark (2002-09).

Documentary Producer at The Danish Film Institute (1998-2002).

Attended script writing at the Danish Film School (1988).