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David Borenstein
Miami, Florida, USA
David Borenstein is an American documentary filmmaker. Borenstein lives and works in Copenhagen. Borenstein began his career in radio broadcasting and directed his first feature…
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David Borenstein is an American documentary filmmaker. Borenstein lives and works in Copenhagen. Borenstein began his career in radio broadcasting and directed his first feature film, Dream Empire, in 2016. He spent ten years in China working on the film, shooting documentaries about the fringes of Chinese society. For this work, he received several nominations and won the Golden Alexander for Best Documentary at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. In 2025, he released the documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, which screened in the main competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
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2025
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Movie Director
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2024
Can't Feel Nothing
Movie Himself
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2023
Inside China's Tech Boom
Movie Director
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2022
The Great Electric Airplane Race
Movie Producer
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2022
Superbats
Movie Director
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2021
Race for the Vaccine
Movie Editor
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2021
Inside the Daily Life of a Live Streaming Star in China
Movie Director
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2021
Love Factory: The Price of Being a Social Media Star
Movie Director
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2021
How We Change
Movie Director
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2020
Decoding COVID-19
Movie Producer
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2018
The Real Thing
Movie Production Supervisor
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2016
Dream Empire
Movie Director
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2015
Chinese Dreamland
Movie Director
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2015
Big Dirk
Movie Director
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2015
Rent-a-Foreigner
Movie Director
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2015
The Urban Wave
Movie Director
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2014
The Hand That Feeds
Movie Associate Producer
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1974
NOVA
TV show Director
