Mercy Mercy
TFI Suppport
Logline
International adoption seems like the perfect solution to a heartbreaking imbalance: Poor countries have babies in need of homes, and rich countries have homes in need of babies. Unfortunately, a lot of the orphans are not orphans at all.
Katrine Kjær
Director
Graduated in 1996 as multimedia designer and following worked as www developer at TeleDanmark and Y&R Advertising Agency. Since 1999 Kjær has been directing nationwide primetime documentaries, with huge audience success and following debate in public medias, e.g. ”For the Sake of the Children” (40 min). The Footage for this TV programme is the archive foundation for Mercy Mercy, which Kjær has kept on developing, with an international feature documentary in mind, going in depth with the material. Parallel to this Kjær has worked on the TV series “The Field Hospital” (6x25 min. 2010) on the field hospital in Camp Bastian, Afghanistan. The intention of the series was to give insight of the realities of all opponents in a complex global conflict, and is a unique platform to examine human consequences of war for all parties, as ISAF soldiers, Taleban and civilians are unwillingly forced in the same location. The series was aired primetime on TV2 Denmark, and was followed up on other TV2 media, such as TV2 News, Good Evening Denmark, and Good Morning Denmark (TV2).
Miriam Nørgaard
Producer
Producer at Fridthjof Film from 2010, Producer of Kill (Christoffer Boe/Ingvar Cronhammer), Rupture (Janus Metz/Christina Hamre), The House Inside Her (Pernille Rose Grønkjær/Astrid Kruse Jensen), Rainbow Monkeys (Martin de Thurha/John Kørner), Flight from the Past (in development, Andreas Kofoed) 2006-2010 commissioning editor at the Danish Film Institute, supporting and developing high end, director driven documentaries. Part of Future Think Tank for The Danish Film Institute (2008-2009) Master of Leadership & Innovation in Complex Systems, Copenhagen Business School/Aarhus University (2012). Feature script consulant “Soldier”, “Bora Bora”, “The Rival”. Educated as a film editor from the National Film School of Denmark (97), with a track record of 8 features, incl. “Pusher 3” by Cannes winning director Nikolas Winding Refn; ”Someone like Hodder” by Academy of Oscar winning director Henrik Ruben Genz, and 4 feature length documentaries for Danish theatrical release. Nørgaard is three times nominates for Best Editing, The Danish Film Acedemy, is a guest lecture at The National Film School of Denmark.
Sara Stockmann
Producer
Producer at Fridthjof Film Doc since 2009. Producer on ARMADILLO (Semaine de la Critique, Cannes 2010, amongst many other international awards), TANKOGRAD, (In competition Hotdoc 2010), and ROSKILDE (2008) Stockmann comes from a background as Head of Distribution / Acquisition Manager at Angel Films (1998-2005) and producer at Barok Film (2005-2009)
