COES Film is a Copenhagen-based production company founded by Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen. COES Film works with feature films, documentaries and experimental shorts.

Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen

Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen has worked professionally in the Danish Film Industry since 2010 as a director, producer assistant, line producer and producer.
She founded Coes Film in 2018.

coes@coesfilm.com
Skindergade 6 1159 Kbh. K.
tel. +45 2758 7191
CVR.
34678146

Esther Wellejus

Award-winning director and writer Esther Wellejus is living and working in Copenhagen. She wrote and directed the documentary You Are Still Somebody’s Someone (original title Vi Lader Billedet Stå Et Øjeblik), a film with a personal subject matter on memory and loss, expressed through an explorative poetic style challenging the classical observational documentary. The film was awarded The Danish Film Academy Award for best documentary short, 2019.

Glen Bay Grant

Glen Bay Grant is a filmmaker with his roots based in documentary. After attending the European Film College, his short film 'Radio Life' was nominated for Best Danish short film of the year at Odense Film Festival and was nominated at several foreign festivals. In 2016 'Radio Life' was further developed into a TV-series, which appeared on The Danish Broadcasting Channel, Danmarks Radio. In 2017 he premiered again at Danmarks Radio with the Danish documentary 'Christmas in the High-rise', a three-part series about the unusual life at a social housing community in Copenhagen. Glen is a graduate from the film school Super16.

COES Film is a Copenhagen-based production company founded by Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen. COES Film works with feature films, documentaries and experimental shorts.

Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen

Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen has worked professionally in the Danish Film Industry since 2010 as a director, producer assistant, line producer and producer.
She founded Coes Film in 2018.


coes@coesfilm.com
Skindergade 6 1159 Kbh. K.
tel. +45 2758 7191
CVR.
34678146

Esther Wellejus

Award-winning director and writer Esther Wellejus is living and working in Copenhagen. She wrote and directed the documentary You Are Still Somebody’s Someone (original title Vi Lader Billedet Stå Et Øjeblik), a film with a personal subject matter on memory and loss, expressed through an explorative poetic style challenging the classical observational documentary. The film was awarded The Danish Film Academy Award for best documentary short, 2019.

Glen Bay Grant

Glen Bay Grant is a filmmaker with his roots based in documentary. After attending the European Film College, his short film 'Radio Life' was nominated for Best Danish short film of the year at Odense Film Festival and was nominated at several foreign festivals. In 2016 'Radio Life' was further developed into a TV-series, which appeared on The Danish Broadcasting Channel, Danmarks Radio. In 2017 he premiered again at Danmarks Radio with the Danish documentary 'Christmas in the High-rise', a three-part series about the unusual life at a social housing community in Copenhagen. Glen is a graduate from the film school Super16.

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The Nannies

“When I was 5 years old, I lost my mother. She died unexpectedly in the night, and when I woke up, everything was different. My father seemed like he was a changed man. We have never talked about the incident that night or the following years. As I can’t remember much, I have contacted the nannies that stayed with me and my family in the late 1980s.”

When filmmaker Signe Barvild Stæhr was just five years old, her mother died unexpectedly in the middle of the night. Signe remembers only very little from that time in the late 1980s, and her father doesn’t like to talk about it. In order to fill in the many gaps, she contacts the several nannies who helped out in their household the following years. It turns out that they all remember things in their own way. The stories of the past are conjured up through tasteful reconstructions of life in the suburbs.

The Nannies’ is a performative documentary with plenty of creative energy driving a deeply personal project.

PRODUCTION

Director: Signe Barvild Stæhr
Producer: Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen
Producer: Line Hvidtfeldt
DOP: Mathias Døcker Petersen
Editor: Sofie Steenberger
Production design: Maria Tranberg
Styling and makeup: VON ESSEN-styling v. Mette Marie Hoeg Von Essen
Composer: Rumpistol
Sound and mix: Johan Assing Høyer
Grade: Mathias Døcker Petersen
Light: Malik Thomas
Sound on set: Emil Salling
Artwork: Marta Julia Johansen
DOP assistant: Sebastian Niepoort
Production assistant: Julie Kjærgaard Kølle, Dea Hemin
Editors assistant: Clara Jessen, Oskar Fanta
DCP: Clara Jessen
Script: Signe Barvild Stæhr
Co-writer: Tommy Oksen

FESTIVALS / AWARDS

Nomination – best short documentary, Danish Film Academy Awards 2021
CPH:DOX, 2020 – Official Selection
NORDISK PANORAMA, 2020 – Vinder Publikumsprisen
BUSTER, 2020 – official selection
TOKYO LIFT OFF, 2021 – official selection
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021, Official Selection – Nominated Best Short Documentary
STOCKFISH FILM FESTIVAL 2021 – SHORT FISH SELECTION
ODENSE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 , Vinder Film Fyn Talentpris
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, 2020 Official Selection
EKKO Shortlist Award 2020 – Vinder Bedste lyddesign
Official Selection – Palm Springs International Film  Festival 2021, Nominated Best Short Documentary
Vimeo Staff Pick Award 2021 + Best of Staff Picks list in the Documentary category
EKKO Shortlist Award, 2020   Winner – Best Sound Design

SUPPORTED BY

“Barnepigerne” was developed at the Nordic workshop TWELVE FOR THE FUTURE’
Filmværkstedet
Anidox
FAF
Dansk Skuespillerforbund
Danske Filminstruktører
Danske Dramatikere
LYDBROR
Bread and Butter

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NIELSEN

“NIELSEN” is a documentary portrait of the former performance artist Claus Beck-Nielsen and the art project “Das Beckwerk.” Through four episodes, “NIELSEN” provides insight into what it means to live when one has declared oneself dead and turned their identity into an artistic experiment. And what happens when that experiment ventures out to meet the world.

PRODUCTION
 

Director: Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen
Editor: Noa Victor Vedde, Glen Bay Grant, Ejner Seidelin
Producer: Kirstine Barfod, Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen
Sound: Peter Fugl Laursen
Grade: Frederik Barfod
Dramaturgical Consultant: Glen Bay Grant
DOP:
Sigrid Ane Laursen
Mia Edelgart
Anne Kølbæk Iversen
Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen
Graphics and poster: Kasper Ledet
Music: Stadig Væk

THANKS TO

Louise Højgaard Johansen
Anna Maria Helgadottir
Martin Pedersen
Mette Esmark
Esther Wellejus