LIFE IS A BEACH
(22 min) Bangladesh/Denmark
[watch trailer]

SUNDAY 10/21, 11:30 AM (SESSION 7)

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.

Contact Information:
e: stephanie@autlookfilms.com
w: http://pedersenogco.dk/


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· 62 DAYS
· BIAS
· A BOLD PEACE
· BURKINABÈ RISING
· DIRT RICH
· DOLLAR HEROES
· DON’T GIVE UP YOUR VOICE
· DRAWN TOGETHER: COMICS, DIVERSITY AND STEREOTYPES
· ENOUGH | THE EMPOWERED WOMEN OF KOROGOCHO
· EXIT
· FACING THE DRAGON
· THE FLIGHT OF THE CONDOR
· FREEDOM FIGHTERS
· FROM BAGHDAD TO THE BAY
· GENERATION ZAPPED
· THE GIRLS OF MERU
· GO DEBBIE
· THE GODDESSES OF FOOD
· HEALING JUSTICE
· IN OUR OWN HANDS
· IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE
· INCURABLE OPTIMIST
· I’VE SEEN SO MUCH
· THE JAZZ AMBASSADORS
· JIHAD IN HOLLYWOOD
· KINGSLEY
· LATINO: THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA
· LESSON FROM A SCHOOL SHOOTING: NOTES FROM DUNBLANE
· LETTER FROM MASANJIA
· LIFE IS A BEACH
· LITTLE FIEL
· LIVING IN THE FUTURE'S PAST
· LOST CROPS
· LOTTE THAT SILHOUETTE GIRL
· LOVESICK
· THE MUKURU ART BOYZ
· THE NEW FIRE
· ONE THING IN NOTHING
· OSLO DIARIES
· POISONING PARADISE
· PROSECUTING EVIL: THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD OF BEN FERENCZ
· THE PROVIDERS
· RAGHU RAI
· RAINBOW CHILDREN - PORTRAIT OF ELIKA
· SAVING ATLANTIS
· SEATS AT THE TABLE
· SHARE
· SILICON VALLEY: THE UNTOLD STORY - SECRET SAUCE
· SKID ROW MARATHON
· SOUFRA
· STREET WORKERS UNITE!
· SURVIVORS
· TIME FOR ILHAN
· THE TRUE COST
· TRUTH DETECTIVES
· UNFINISHED SYMPHONY
· WAR OF RELIGIONS IN MY FAMILY
· THE WHALE HOUSE
· THE WHISTLEBLOWER OF MY LAI
· WOODY’S ORDER!