Lukas Graham “Not a Damn Thing Changed” Video Shoot. Directed By René Sascha Johannsen for New Land 2018
After 9 years based in NYC and LA, USA I returned to Copenhagen Denmark in 2019. One of the reasons was to finish my documentary feature “7 Years of Lukas Graham” funded by DFI (The Danish Film Institute). The doc was released in 2020 and was nominated DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR at the Danish Academy Awards 2020 (Robert Prisen). It was also the best selling Danish cinema documentary in 9 years.
My first international claim to fame was the Sundance awarded “THE RED CHAPEL“documentary I shot in NorthKorea (2006) and edited for Director Mads Brügger. The feature also earned me a DOP nomination at The Golden Frog, Camerimage film festival 2010.
Between then and now I have almost 20 years of professional experience and have filmed and edited more than 200 hours of broadcasted tv-documentary and documentary films. On top of that I’ve Directed a ton of commercial work and +50 music videos. Most notable yhe video for Lukas Graham‘s 7 YEARS song which passed 1 billion views on Youtube in 2020 and earned med a BLACK DOG signing in LA.
The past 10 years have truly been hectic but I have no plans of slowing down. The camera has taken me everywhere from The slums of Cité Soleil in Haiti, the beach of The Gaza Strip, the Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang, the skyscrapers of Guangzhou, the forrest in Zambia to the UN building in NYC – I’ve been around the world more than 5 times and I no longer feel like a stranger in any of these places.
I have also opened a galleri in Copenhagen, CURBSIDE stories where I reside on a daily basis and I occasionally do talks by the name of “FUCKUPS“…
20 years down the line I’m still on a constant mission to challenge, shape, and perfect my visual output and passion for storytelling.
– René Sascha Johannsen
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