Daniel BORGMAN

Daniel Joseph Borgman was born in 1981 in the small coastal town of Dunedin in New Zealand. After studying Film Science at Otago University, he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he has worked as a visual effects artist and film colourist on numerous feature film projects. His first short, The Man & the Albatross (2007) premiered in the Leopards of Tomorrow competition at the Locarno Film Festival. His second short, Lars and Peter (2009), was in the Official Selection in the short film competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival and has been nominated for a Robert, the Danish Film Academies national film prize. In 2009 Daniel completed production on three more short films, Behaviour, Kaleidoscope and Berik. Daniel is currently developing Brainy, a 30 minute novel film with funding from The Danish Film Institute’s New Danish Screen scheme. At the Cinéfondation residence Daniel writes on his debut feature film project, The Weight of Elephants, a coming of age drama about 14 year old Jess, a local paper boy, whose life is flipped upside down when a horrific murder happens in the street where he delivers newspapers.