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David Borenstein
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David Borenstein is an American documentary filmmaker. Borenstein lives and works in Copenhagen. Borenstein began his career in radio broadcasting and directed his first feature film, Dream Empire, in 2016. He spent ten years in China working on the film, shooting documentaries about the fringes of Chinese society. For this work, he received several nominations and won the Golden Alexander for Best Documentary at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. In 2025, he released the documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, which screened in the main competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Can't Feel Nothing
Love Factory: The Price of Being a Social Media Star
The Real Thing
The Hand That Feeds
The Great Electric Airplane Race
Dream Empire
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Inside the Daily Life of a Live Streaming Star in China
Rent-a-Foreigner
Inside China's Tech Boom
Decoding COVID-19
Race for the Vaccine
Superbats
Chinese Dreamland
Big Dirk
The Urban Wave
How We Change
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