Emil Dam Seidel
Emil Dam Seidel is an award-winning film director.
Most recently he wrote and directed the short interactive web series Courage to Act, for which he received the Silver Screen Young Director Award in Cannes in 2022. The year before he directed and produced the acclaimed short film SHE, which had its international premiere at the Fotografiska Museum New York and has screened at more than 30 film festivals across the globe.
Before starting his career as a film director, Emil assisted R. Thomas Vinterberg on the Oscar-winning film Another Round. He later became Thomas' 2nd Unit Director on the TV series Families like Ours. Emil’s professional film career was kickstarted in 2013 when he assisted the Oscar-winning director R. Susanne Bier on the film A Second Chance.
Awards & Nominations:
- Best Dance Video, Echoes Film Festival 2023 (GR)
- Best Experimental Film, Touchstone Independent Film Festival 2023 (US)
- Best Experimental Film, Stockholm Independent Film Festival 2023, (SE)
- 2nd place, Short Independent, On Art Dance & Music 2022, Warsaw (PL)
- Best Director, Vesuvius International Film Festival 2022 (IT)
- Silver Winner, True Campaign, True Award 2022, Copenhagen (DK)
- Nominated, True Passion, True Award 2022, Copenhagen (DK)
- Silver Screen Winner, Online Branded Film, Young Director Award 2022, Cannes (FR)
- 2nd Prize, Screen Dance Festival 2022, Stockholm (SE)
- Honorable Mention, Best Experimental Film, Around International Film Festival 2022, Barcelona (SP)
- Best Experimental Film, Swedish International Film Festival 2022, Arvika (SE)