Jakob Kirstein Høgel

Jakob Høgel is Head of Education and Research at the National Film School of Denmark. Co-founder of Rough Cut Service, a consulting collective of world-class editors. Film commissioner for documentaries at West Danish Film Fund. Former Artistic Director of New Danish Screen, a succesful talent development scheme and innovation fund (2007-14). Before that founder and co-owner of Danish production company, Cosmo Doc. From 1999-2004 he was commissioning editor for Documentaries & Shorts at the Danish Film Institute. Visual anthropologist with a focus on developing film sectors and film policy. He wrote the first film law of Bhutan.