Thandiwe Newton stars on HBO’s critically acclaimed series Westworld for which she won the 2018 Emmy Award and was nominated for a 2020 Emmy Award for “Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.” Additionally, she won the 2016 and 2018 Critics Choice Award for “Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series” and was nominated for a 2017 Emmy Award for “Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.” In 2017 and 2019, Newton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television” as well as two SAG Awards for “Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series” and “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series” in 2017.

Newton has reteamed with Westworld’s Lisa Joy to star in her sci-fi feature, Reminiscence opposite Hugh Jackman which Warner Bros. released in 2021. Newton recently wrapped production on Julian Higgins’ feature directorial debut God’s Country as well as Janus Metz’s spy thriller, All The Old Knives opposite Chris Pine for Amazon Studios.

Newton is well-known for her work in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, Crash. For her performance, she received a BAFTA Award for “Best Actress in a Supporting Role” and a SAG Award for “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.” Newton was also praised for her role in Gabriele Muccino's critically acclaimed box office hit The Pursuit of Happyness opposite Will Smith.

She has also starred in several other blockbuster films including John Woo’s Mission Impossible 2 opposite Tom Cruise, which grossed over $540 million worldwide and Roland Emmerich’s 2012, which grossed over $760 million worldwide, Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story ($390 million box office), Nash Edgerton’s Gringo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half A Yellow Sun opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds, For Colored Girls opposite Whoopi Goldberg, Guy Ritchie’s Rocknrolla, Oliver Stone's W.opposite Josh Brolin (playing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice), Xavier Dolan’s The Death & Life of John F. Donovan which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, David Schwimmer's Run Fat Boy Run, Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie and Jonathan Demme's Beloved in which she received rave reviews for her astonishingly original and bold performance as the title character which co-starred Oprah Winfrey. 

Additionally, Newton executive produced the film Liyana which is a documentary about a group of young children in Swaziland who use the power of storytelling to work through personal traumas. Liyana opened in select theaters on October 10, 2018.

Newton’s other television credits include: the acclaimed BBC One drama Line of Duty which garnered her rave reviews and a 2018 BAFTA TV Award nomination for “Best Leading Actress;” ER; American Dad!; Rogue; The Slap; and Big Mouth.

In 2012, Newton made her stage debut in London’s West End starring in Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman. And in 2016, she recorded the audiobook for Jane Eyre which was in the #9 highest customer-rated audiobook for the year. More recently, she recorded the audiobook War and Peace for Audible.

As an activist and philanthropist, Newton was named to the Queen's New Year's Honours List, receiving an OBE for services to film and charity. She is a founding board member of the V-Day Foundation and their One Billion Rising campaign, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. In 2011, she attended the opening of City of Joy, which is a transformational leadership community for women survivors of violence, located in Bukavu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In conjunction with V-Day, Netflix released a documentary, The City of Joy on September 7, 2018. Additionally, Newton memorably spoke at the  2011 TED Global Conference on the topic of “Embracing Otherness” and the video has been viewed over 3.2 million times.

In addition to being one of the most acclaimed actors of our time, with a career spanning 35 years and including film classics like “Places in the Heart,” “The Color Purple,” the “Lethal Weapon” series and the acclaimed “To Sleep with Anger,” Danny Glover has also executive produced numerous projects for film, television and theatre. Among these are “Good Fences,” “3 AM,” “Freedom Song,” “Get on the Bus,” “Deadly Voyage,” “Buffalo Soldiers,” “The Saint of Fort Washington,” “To Sleep with Anger,” and “Mooladé,” as well as the series “Courage and America’s Dream.”

Since co-founding Louverture Films, Glover has been involved with producing BAMAKO, TROUBLE THE WATER, DUM MAARO DUM, THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN, THE TIME THAT REMAINS, HIGHWAY, WHITE SUN, CONCERNING VIOLENCE, THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, SHADOW WORLD, WHITE SUN, STRONG ISLAND, HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING, EASTER

SNAP and CRANE LANTERN. He associate produced Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2010 Cannes Palme d’Or winner UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES and CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR.

In 2006, Danny received the DGA Honor in recognition of his humanitarian and advocacy ef- forts on behalf of economic and social justice causes, and in 2011 he was honored with a Pio- neer Award from the National Civil Rights Museum.

He is the recipient of the Marian Anderson Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Amnesty International USA. Internationally, Danny served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the

United Nations Development Program from 1998-2004, focusing on issues of poverty, disease and economic development in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. He was presented in 2011 with the prestigious Medaille des Arts et des Letters from the French Ministry of Culture. Danny currently serves as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

In 2022, Danny was recognized by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Oscar®, for his decades-long advocacy for justice and human rights and his dedication to recognizing our shared humanity on and off the screen.

Born 1961. Henrik Bohn Ipsen studied cinematography at the National Danish Film School and graduated in 1997. Henrik Bohn Ipsen has worked on a large number of notable documentary films since the mid-eighties, including Heartbound (2018), Reconstructing Utøya (2018), Motley’s Law (2015), My Afghanistan (2012), Football is God (2010) and The German Secret (2005).

Henrik has been an invaluable partner for director Camilla Nielsson while shooting President, and they were able to continue their collaboration which started when he was the cinematographer on Camilla Nielsson’s previous film from the Zimbabwean political landscape, Democrats (2014).

Henrik Ipsen is highly respected for his uncompromising approach to documentary cinematography – always creating beautiful and fascinating images no matter how difficult the shooting conditions are.

In 2015, Henrik Bohn Ipsen received the Danish Roos Award, which recognizes an outstanding contribution to Danish documentary film.

Born 1977. Jeppe Bødskov studied editing at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating in 2007. He has edited numerous notable Danish TV-series, the latest being When the Dust Settles (2019), Deliver Us (2018) and Follow the Money (2018). Alongside the fiction projects he has worked on several acclaimed Danish documentaries, among others A Cherry Tale (2018) by Eva Mulvad, The Great European Cigarette Mystery (2018) by Jeppe Rønde Days  of Hope (2014) by Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, and ½ Revolution (2011) by Omar Shargawi. He  has also edited several commercials and edited the art piece This Nameless Spectacle by the acclaimed Danish visual artist Jesper Just.

In 2014 Jeppe Bødskov edited Camilla Nielsson’s documentary Democrats (2014) and through this he gained an incredible insight into the Zimbabwean political landscape that he has been able to utilize in his work editing President.

Jeppe Bødskov brings a unique sense of rhythm, musicality and timing to the editing table and it is instrumental to the editing process of President that he and Camilla have been able to continue their collaboration from Democrats.

Born in 1976, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jonas is a vocalist, musician, composer, animator, and visual artist. He started the alternative rock band Mew in 1995. Also founding member of

side project Apparatjik alongside Guy Berryman from Coldplay, Magne Furuholmen from a-ha, and Swedish producer and songwriter Martin Terefe. Recently started a new duo with Tobias Wilner called Tachys.

He has composed and recorded music for tv and film projects such as Danish film “Skyskraber” directed by Rune Schjøtt, documentary tv series “Scandinavian Star” directed by Mikala Krogh, short films “We Who Stayed Behind” by Martin De Thurah, “Bosporus” by Martin Werner, and “The Girl In The Water” by Jeppe Rønde and Ming Jin Woo.

Jonas is a featured vocalist on songs by artists such as Duran Duran, Kimbra, Purity Ring, Blue Foundation, Silo, Molina, Future 3, RAC, Carly Paradis and Kasper Winding. Jonas also creates and exhibits animations and visual art, and has directed music videos for artists such as a-ha, Agnes Obel, and his own band Mew.

Born 1970. Signe Byrge Sørensen is a two-time Oscar® nominee for producing The Act of Killing in 2014 and The Look of Silence in 2016. She was nominated for the Producer’s Guild Award in 2016 for The Look of Silence and won Cinema Eye Awards for the production of both these films.

Signe Byrge Sørensen has been a producer since 1998 and founded Final Cut for Real ApS in 2009. Recent titles include Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen (202) Songs of Repression by Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner (2020), Dreaming Murakami (2018) by Nitesh Anjaan, Land of the Free (2017) by Camilla Magid, Les Sauteurs (2017) by Estephan Wagner and Life is Sacred (2014) by Andreas Dalsgaard. While at SPOR Media, she was the Danish co-producer for Steps for the Future.

She holds an MA in International Development Studies and Communication Studies from Roskilde University, Denmark, 1998 and attended EURODOC in 2003, EAVE in 2010 and ACE in 2018.

In 2014, Signe Byrge Sørensen received the Roos Award, given for an extraordinary contribution to Danish documentary film. She has co-produced 4 documentary films with Joslyn Barnes of Louverture Films: Angels Are Made of Light by James Longley, That Summer by Göran Olsson, Strong Island by Yance Ford (Oscar® nominated 2018) and Shadow World by Johan Grimonprez.

Joslyn Barnes is a producer, writer and co-founder of New York based Louverture Films which she co-founded together with Danny Glover in 2005, later to be joined by partners Susan Rockefeller, Tony Tabatznik, Sawsan Asfari, Jeffrey Clark and Karin Chien.

Among the films she has been involved with producing are the features: Bamako By Abderrahmane Sissako; Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Cemetery Of Splendour and the forthcoming Memoria; Deepak Rauniyar's White Sun; Lucrecia Martel's Zama; Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum; and the forthcoming Noche De Fuego by Tatiana Huezo and La Memoria Del Monte by Paz Encina. Among the documentaries are: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Trouble The Water; Göran Hugo Olsson’s Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Concerning Violence and That Summer; Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In; Tala Hadid’s House In The Fields and the forthcoming Forest Of Stone; Yance Ford's Strong Island; Ramell Ross's Hale County This Morning, This Evening and Easter Snap; Victor Kossakovsky's Aquarela and Gunda; Camilla Nielsson's President; and Lucrecia Martel’s forthcoming Chocobar.

In 2017, Barnes was the recipient of both the Cinereach Producer Award and the Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producer Award. In 2010, 2018 and 2019 she was nominated for Emmy Awards, and won in 2018 for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2018 and 2019 she earned Oscar® Nominations for best Documentary Feature.

Anne Köhncke was born in Norway 1973. She moved to Copenhagen 1997, where she in 2009 co-founded the two-time Oscar®-nominated production company Final Cut for Real together with Signe Byrge Sørensen. In 2019 Anne also started Final Cut for Real Norway. She lives between Malmö, Oslo and Marseille and works with Nordic and international directors. Prior to producing, she worked as Commissioning Editor of documentaries at DR2 and as Sales Executive at TV2 World, selling documentaries.

She holds an MA in film from the University of Copenhagen, is an EAVE graduate and a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

At Final Cut for Real Anne Köhncke has produced several award-winning documentary films, such as Pervert Park (2014), Death of a Child (2017) and School Shooters (in post-production) by Frida and Lasse Barkfors, Patrimonium (2019), Meanwhile on Earth (2020) and Men on Boat (in production) by Carl Olsson, What Walla Wants (2018) by Christy Garland and Cathedrals of Culture: Halden Prison (2013) by Michael Madsen.

Anita Rehoff Larsen has produced for Norwegian and international directors since 2010. She is co-owner of the production company Sant & Usant together with producer and director Tone Grøttjord-Glenne. Together they have produced the company’s award winning films such as Gunda and Varicella by Viktor Kossakovsky, Exit by Karen Winther, 69 Minutes Of 86 Days by Egil Håskjold Larsen, and more.

Anita studied film in the UK and has graduated as an international producer from EURODOC. Anita looks for directors with a strong cinematic voice.

Sant & Usant has collaborated with Danish production company Final Cut for Real on several films, including All That I Am by Tone Grøttjord-Glenne, Dancing For You by Erlend E. Mo and Life is Sacred by Andreas Dalsgaard, and with Louverture Films on Gunda by Victor Kossakovsky.

Susan Rockefeller is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, artist, and conservationist. She is a Principal of Louverture Films where she has executive and co produced 24 acclaimed films, including Victor Kossakovsky's Gunda and Aquarela; Hilal Baydarov's In Between Dying; Nadine Labaki's Capernaum; Lucrecia Martel's Zama; RaMell Ross' Hale County This Morning, This Evening; Yance Ford's Strong Island; and Deepak Rauniyar's White Sun and Highway.

Sue's own original films, which include Food For Thought, Food for Life; Striking a Chord; Making the Crooked Straight; and Mission of Mermaids, have aired on HBO, PBS, and the Discovery Channel.

Sue is a member of the Film Committee for the Museum of Modern Art, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is founder of Musings, a digital magazine that inspires ideas for a better world. Susan sits on the boards of Oceana, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, the We Are Family Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Land and Garden Preserve, and the David Rockefeller Fund. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Tone Grøttjord-Glenne has a master’s degree in direction from the National Film and Television School in England. In 2005 she founded Sant & Usant with a vision of creating an environment for documentary film that had room to discuss both images and visual storytelling reading out on an international stage.

Together with co-owner and producer Anita Rehoff Larsen, Tone has produced several award-winning documentaries in Sant & Usant since then. As a director Tone released All That I Am in the Norwegian Cinema in 2020 and are currently directing Norway’s first Netflix Original, Sisters on Track. She is executive producer on Gunda, which premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year.

Born 1961. Håkon Lammetun began as sound designer at Norsk Film AS in 1986. He ended his position at Norsk Filmstudio in 1993 and has run his own film sound studio, now called Lydhodene, since 1997. Håkon Lammetun has created the sound design and mix on a number of films of all categories, as well as thousands of commercials.

His work is seen on several recognized films; Pyromaniac (2016. Winner of Best Sound Design at Kosmorama Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival, 2017), Kill Buljo 2 (2013. Nominated for Best Sound Design at Kosmorama Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival, 2014), Høvdinger (2015), Nokas (2010), and many others. Some of his recent works are; Liker Stilen (2020), All That I Am (2020), The Self Portrait (2020), The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019).

Alongside with his own company, Lydhodene, Håkon also acts as sound designer for the company Filmreaktor AS. He is located in Oslo, Norway.

Born 1976. Thomas Jæger is a Danish sound designer with more than 20 years’ experience, educated from The Danish Film School. He has worked with many established directors, such as Thomas Vinterberg, Lars Von Trier & Wigge and Rasmussen. In addition to his sound design on films, Thomas has been engaged in coaching, consulting, and teaching of up-coming sound enthusiasts and film students.

Thomas is especially known for his sound design in the films The Hunt (2012 - Nominated for Best Sound at Danish Film Awards/Robert, 2014), Nymphomaniac I & II (2013), Fuglejagten (2012), Smukke Mennesker (2010), Little Girl (2020), Democrats (2014), Night Will Fall (2014. Nominated for Outstanding Music and Sound at News & Documentary Emmy Awards, 2016).

Born 1973. Tom Chr. Lilletvedt is a Norwegian Colorist, with a background in VFX and Motion Graphics. He has previously worked for the production company BUG, and was here responsible for motion graphics, visual effects, and 3D animation. Later, he joined the institution Noroff – a university specialized in technology and digital media.

Today he collaborates with Hinterland, a postproduction company in Norway. Tom is known for his work on the films; The Mole: Undercover in North Korea (2020), ‘Til Kingdom Come (2020), All That I Am (2020), Angels Are Made of Light (2018-19), The Look of Silence (2014), Inside Fur (2014), My Afghanistan – Life in the Forbidden Zone (2012), The Act of Killing (2012), and many others.