Daniel Joseph Borgman (born 9 August 1981) is a New Zealand film director.

Education

Borgman attended Bayfield High School. Borgman studied film science at

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in New Zealand, before moving to Copenhagen where he worked in

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, first as an assistant and later as a

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and visual effects artist. In 2009 he started studying at the Danish film school

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, his graduation project in 2012 being an experimental live film / theatre / happening entitled ''How to Say Goodbye''.

Career

Borgman's first

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''The Man & the Albatross'' (2007) premièred in the Leopards of Tomorrow competition at the

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. His second short film, ''Lars and Peter'' (2009), that captures the difficult emotions of a young boy and his relationship to his father in the face of great loss, was in the Official Selection in the short film competition at the

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and was nominated for a

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, the Danish Film Academy's national film prize. In 2009 Borgman completed production of three more short films, ''Behaviour'', ''Kaleidoscope'' and '' Berik''. ''Berik'' is about a severely disabled man, blind and deformed due to radiation poisoning, who lives a lonely life in eastern

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until the 11-year-old Adil one day lose his football and knocks on Berik's door to get his help to find it. ''Berik'' won the Canal+ Grand Prix in 49th

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's short film section at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, and Best European Short Film at

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in 2010, the latter meriting the film a nomination for Best Short Film at the

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in 2011. The 2011 short drama ''Brainy'', a 30-minute novel film made with funding from The Danish Film Institute's New Danish Screen scheme, was about the 10-year-old Brian, an imaginative boy who deals with the loss of his grandfather by constructing a fantasy world. With a grant from

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, Borgman spend five months in Paris writing his début feature film project, ''

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'' (2013). An adaption of Australian author

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's book '' Of a Boy'', the film is a coming of age drama about 14-year-old Jess, a local paper boy, whose life is flipped upside down when a horrific murder happens in the street where he delivers newspapers. The

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-produced film was screened at

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, Saint-Quentin Ciné-Jeune Film Festival, Paris Cine Junior,

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, and won the Youth Jury Award for Best Picture at the 2013 Vlissingen, Film by the Sea Festival, and the Oecumenical Prize at the 2013 Kiev Molodist International Film Festival. It was selected for the Forum at the

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Filmography

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Borgman, Daniel 1981 births Living people New Zealand film directors