MDAG Industry Guest
Niels Pagh Andersen started his career as an assistant in fiction film at 16 years old. Since 1979 he has worked as a film editor and has cut more than 250 films of widely different categories. Among them the fiction films The Pathfinder, Academy Award Nominee and Everlasting Moments, Golden Globe Nominee and the documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, both Academy Award Nominees. In the last years, NPA has edited several films for the Chinese artist Ai WeiWei He has lectured and taught at film schools and universities, workshops, and festivals around the world and is a Professor in Editing at The Norwegian Filmschool. In 2005 he won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, The Roos Prize, and The Danish Film Institute’s Grand Documentary Prize for outstanding efforts in documentary filmmaking. In 2021 he published the book “ Order in Chaos”- Storytelling and Editing in Documentary Film.
