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In 2004 I was one of 4 members in the international talent selection team for the 2005-edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus, selecting 500 filmmakers out of 2500 applicants. I also headed the selection of 25 projects for the “Working Campus” Script & Doc Clinics in collaboration with Script House Berlin for the fiction projects and filmmaker Andres Veiel for the documentary projects.
Working for the Campus meant living in Berlin for 7 months and while it was intensive work it was also a great experience to become part of the Talent Campus and to experience the “making of” of a festival the size of the Berlinale from the inside.
On the right you can find a link to the press release of the 2005-Campus and an essay (in Danish) that I wrote for one of our major daily newspapers about the experience: