Helle Toft Jensen

Director

Biography

Denmark

Born in 1957 in Denmark, Helle Toft Jensen is a founding member of SPOR, founded in 1980 in order to promote inter-cultural understanding between the North and the South through film, educational materials, and web sites. Working there as a director and producer, she made several documentaries since 1979, which have been shown in numerous festivals around the globe. Other accomplishments include being a selecting member for Third World Films for national distribution, co-organizing film festivals in Copenhagen with films from the South, re-editing documentaries for Danish distribution, and conducting seminars for Danish NGOs on AV-communications.

Filmography

Free Fatherland or Die (1979)
Children of the Revolution (1980)
In the Shadow of the Bomb (1982)
We Can Become Everything (1983)
Little Grown-ups (1984)
Isabel c/o Denmark (1989)
Living Despite it All (1990)
Isabel on Her Way (1993)
Help? (1995)
Fading Away (1997)
Ancestors Online – A Journey into African Memory (2000 - 2002)
Now Listen Up (2005)
Hotel of Dreams [Drømmenes hotel] (2005)
Diallo's Odysee (2015)

Films Curated by AFF