Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Søren KraghJacobsen born 2 March 1947 in Copenhagen is a Danish film director musician and song writer He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project for creating films without artificial technology or techniques KraghJacobsen started out as a popular musician in Denmark before attending film school in Prague After returning to Denmark he directed and cowrote television productions He became one of the developers of the avantgarde filmmaking project Dogme95 based on creating films based only on reality without artificial lighting and technology His first feature film was Wanna See My Beautiful Navel 1978 This was followed by the successful Rubber Tarzan 1981 Thunderbirds 1983 Emmas Shadow 1988 Shower of Gold 1988 The Boys from St Petri 1991 The Island on Bird Street 1997 and his international breakthrough dogme No 3 Mifunes Last Song 1999 and Skagerrak 2003 Mifunes Last Song won the Silver Bear Special Jury Prize at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival Skagerrak was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival He has done some commercials and DanishSwedish TV series Acclaimed internationally he has received several major awards for his work including the Memorial François Truffaut AwardGiffoni an Emmy for The Island on Bird Street and a Silver Bear at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin for Mifunes Last Song The Boys from St Petri was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival