Mads Ellesøe
Born1977
NationalityDanish
Alma materDanish School of Media and Journalism
Occupation(s)journalist, filmmakerer

Mads Ellesøe (born 1977) is a Danish filmmaker and journalist.[1][2]

He studied at Danish School of Media and Journalism.[2]

In 2010, he was arrested by the Moroccan secret service, after doing a critical documentary about West Sahara issue.[3][2]

He worked as journalist at the Danish newspaper Politiken and at Center For Investigative Reporting in the US.[2]

Ellesøe have worked for International Media Support in South Sudan. Also, he was a director at the international documentaries unit at DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, and before he was staff reporter in an investigative unit at Danish TV2.[2]

Your film documentary The Men Who Plundered Europe received the Danish TV Award in 2019 as Best Documentary of the Year[4]

Selected filmography

  • Our War (Danish film) (Danish: Vores Krig) (2009)[5]
  • Pind og Holdt i USA (2012)[6]
  • The Child Soldier's New Job (Danish: Børnesoldatens nye job) (2016)[7]
  • The Men Who Plundered Europe (Danish: Mændene der plyndrede Europa) (2018)[8]
  • The Campaign Against the Climate (2020)[9][10]

References

  1. "Mads Ellesøe (Denmark)". dafilms.com.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "About Mads". madsmedia.dk.
  3. "Danish journalist detained in Morocco". Politiken. 29 November 2010.
  4. Mads Ellesøe skifter DR ud med Dokumentarkompagniet, Medier i Relation, 16 April 2020
  5. "Vores Krig". imdb.com.
  6. "PRESSE:'Pind og Holdt i USA'". dr.dk (in Danish). 31 October 2012.
  7. "Review – The Child Soldier's New Job". E-International Relations. 18 March 2017.
  8. "Mændene der plyndrede Europa". information.dk (in Danish). 19 October 2018.
  9. "The Campaign Against the Climate: Debunking climate change denial". Al Jazeera. 17 April 2021.
  10. "High priests of climate denialism". Modern Times Review.


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