Mads Matthiesen

Awards

Nominated for 1 European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year Award

European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year 1 nominated

• ◦ 2012 European Discovery of the Year Nominated Teddy Bear

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Mads Matthiesen was born in 1976 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has a BA in Comparative Literature and Rhetoric and he graduated as Director from the Danish film school “Super16” in 2008. His first feature Teddy Bear (2012) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where Mads won the Best Director. It was nominated for the European Film Academy’s “European Discovery” Award, won a dozen of awards and was sold for theatrical release to most of the world. The Model is his second feature, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.