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Peter Hammer is a filmmaker working in cinema, broadcast, and artistic research. He takes on projects as a director, creative producer, writer, editor, consultant, etc. 

Email peter@hammer.film‍ ‍ Phone +45 61 70 20 40

His latest film REVIR (2023) premiered at CPH:DOX and screened in main competitions at Hot Docs and Nordic Panorama a.o. Previous works have won Danish TV Awards, The AIBs and have been selected for INPUT and other festivals.

He holds an MA in artistic research through cinema and a Bachelor of Journalism with a career spanning investigative reporting, documentaries and original groundbreaking factual programming for public broadcast, documentary cinema and artistic research.

He is based in Copenhagen (and sometimes Amsterdam).

Dansk version

  • Peter Hammer is a filmmaker and a creative producer working in cinema and broadcast.
    He has an artistic research practice and a background in journalism. He is based in
    Copenhagen (and sometimes Amsterdam).

    His works have been screened or performed at Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, Nordisk Panorama,
    Makedox, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Labocine, Kunstrum Fyn, EYE Filmmuseum
    Amsterdam, DR (the Danish Broadcasting Corporation), Copenhagen Concert Hall, the
    DFDS Copenhagen-Oslo ferryboat, INPUT Festival, TV 2 Denmark, a.o.

    In 2005 he began his career as an investigative reporter for television but he since
    became a director and creator of award-winning documentaries and groundbreaking
    factual programming with the Danish Broadcasting Corp. a.o.

    His most recent film, REVIR (2023), springs from a research into the intimate relationship
    between taxidermy and documentary film which share practices of collecting,
    conserving and staging realities. They even share a common ancestor and a cultural
    and technological heritage. While Revir portrays the relationship between a brother and
    a sister with her taxidermy workshop as an arena, the research project is concerned with
    questions regarding representation and subjectivity, realism and reality, naturalism and
    nature, creativity and creation.

    He holds an MA in artistic research in and through cinema from Master of Film at
    Netherlands Film Academy. Forensics of Imagination is the title of his research which
    centres on imagination as a critical practice in documentary cinema, and on the
    reconfiguration of a narrative field by way of micro history, coincidence and encounter.

  • EDUCATION

    2019 MA, Master of Filmartistic research in and through cinema, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
    2008 Bachelor of Journalism, Danish School of Media and Journalism, Aarhus
    2001 MGK, music college, Aarhus Musikskole
    2000 HSD, Aarhus Katedralskole

    EMPLOYMENT

    2025- Writer-director, GotFat Productions and Thin Green Line Productions (project in development)
    2024-26 Writer-director, near/by film (project in development)
    2020-23 Director, Bullitt Film (Revir)
    2009-21 Director, creative producer DR Ung, Videnskab, Historie, Kultur, Event
    2020 Director, creative producer at Pineapple Entertainment
    2017 Consulting producer at Pineapple Entertainment
    2008-09 Journalist, producer at Nordisk Film TV
    2006-07 Managing editor at Bastard Film/Ekstra Bladet
    2004-06 Journalism intern at CNN, Bastard Film, DR Nyheder

    OTHER WORK

    2026 Guest teacher at the Danish Film School
    2026- External examinator at Roskilde University and the Danish School of Media and Journalism
    2021- Consultancies for the Danish Broadcasting Corp., GotFat Productions, AKA Film/Smarthouse Film, etc.
    2016-17 External examinator at the Danish School of Media and Journalism
    2012- Guest lecturer at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, Roskilde University, Vallekilde Højskole, Politiken, DR

    VOLUNTARY WORK & ODDJOBS

    2021-26 Chairman of the board of the housing cooperative AB Allégade 15-17
    2014-15 Jury member, the Kravling Awards
    2007 Founder and producer of the Kravling Awards
    2004-07 Member and chairman of the board of KaJ, the Union of Journalism Students
    2001-03 Night club manager etc. at DNA, Aarhus
    1999-02 Founder and producer of high school band stand and song contest MGP, Aarhus

  • FESTIVALS

    2023 Revir
     Hot Docs
    CPH:DOX
    Nordisk Panorama
    Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
    Makedox

    2013 Bully Bro Brain Bimbo
    INPUT Festival: Highlights of Public Media

    AWARDS

    2021 Best pitch of BDC Forum/Dokufest Kosovo: Did it Hurt? (work-in-progress with Aneta Lesnikovska)
    2018 Danish TV Award for best crime: Murderer on a White Horse
    2018 Danish TV Award for best feature series: Gina Jaqueline — a sugardater’s tale
    2016 The AIBs for best specialist: It Ends With Murder
    2013 The AIBs high commendation for best specialist: TheDuel — Where’s Your Honor, Man?

    OFFICIAL COMPETITION

    2023 Best Nordic Doc Award (Nordisk Panorama): Revir
    2023 International Spectrum Award (Hot Docs): Revir
    2023 Politiken:DOX (CPH:DOX): Revir
    2021 Danish TV Award for original creation of the year: If you’re reading this I’m dead
    2016 The AIBs for best human interest: The Murder of Jannick
    2016 CPH Mix BENT Award: The Murder of Jannick
    2016 Danish TV Award for best crime: It Ends With Murder
    2013 TV Prisen for event of the year: Live from the End of the World
    2013 Zulu Awards: Bully Bro Brain Bimbo

  • OWN WORKS

    2023 Revir. Documentary feature 83’. Bullitt Film with the support of New Danish Screen/DFI and DR
    2023 Creature Catalogue—Naturalisation (I). Cinematic study 4’ during the development of Revir
    2019 Ephemeral Evidence. Multimedia installation. Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam. Master of Film
    2019 Forensics of Imagination: 1st annual review. Print publication, artistic research project. Master of Film
    2017 No Balance Palace. Film essay 13’. Master of Film
    2017 Passage. Cinematic study 17’


    CONSULTANCY

    2025 Trine on Fire. Documentary feature 94’. Director Alexander Lind. DFI & TV2
    2023 The Light. Documentary feature 70’. Director Alexander Lind. GotFat Productions. DFI & DR
    2020 Sins of my Childhood. Docu/drama series 3x30’. Director: Kåre Bjerglund. DR
    2018 The Search. Multi media installation. Director Michael Madsen for Louisiana.
    2018 Gina Jaqueline - caught in a dream. Documentary feature 71’. Director Sofie Lange. Pineapple Entertainment. DFI & DR
    2014 Ond, ondere, ondest. Doku-reality, 6x40’. DR


    WORKS FOR BROADCAST

    DIRECTOR

    2021 If You’re Reading This I’m Dead. Documentary series 4x30’. Pineapple Entertainment for DR
    2016 Murderer on a White Horse. Documentary short 60’. DR
    2012 The Duel — Where’s Your Honor, Man? Documentary short 52’. DR
    2012 Bully Bro Brain Bimbo. Documentary mini series 5x15’. DR
    2008 The bomb under Pakistan. Tv-reportage, 5x5’. DR2 Udland

    CREATOR

    2020 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Denmark. Multimedia installation/live performance/history special 60’. DR
    2015 It Ends With Murder. True crime anthology 3x30’. DR
    2014 School’s Out. Live performance/journalism varieté/anniversary special 150’. Copenhagen Concert Hall & DR
    2014 Operation Brown Cheese: Give Us Back NorwayDocufiction coup d’état live show 150’. DFDS Copenhagen-Oslo & DR
    2014 PhD Cup. Science storytelling contest. 70’. Copenhagen Concert Hall, Information & DR. 
    2013 PhD Cup. Science storytelling contest. 70’. Copenhagen Concert Hall, Information & DR.
    2012 Live from the End of the World. Docufiktion/count down gala liveshow 150’. Copenhagen Concert Hall & DR

    EDITORIAL MANAGER / STORY PRODUCER

    2019 Up in Smoke at the Faroese Elections. Documentary short 60’. Director: Frederik Lauridsen. DR
    2017 Hacking — You’re Not Alone. DR2 Tema live 90’. DR
    2017 Gina Jaqueline — Sugar Dater’s Tale. Feature series 4x30’. Director: Sofie Lange. Pineapple for DR
    2017 Martin Without the X. Documentary series 4x30’. Director: Sebastian Ottenstein. DR
    2015 The Murder of Jannick. Documentary short 40’. Director: Kåre Bjerglund. DR
    2015 The Life Line — so you would like to die? Tv-dokumentar. Tilrettelægger: Andreas Bense. DR
    2007 ekstrabladet.tv Development of a web tv channel. Bastard Film for Ekstra Bladet

    DEVELOPER

    2022 My Song for Denmark. Music show, flagship series. DR
    2014 Blossoms from the bomb crater LIVE. History talkshow. Golden Days Festival & DR
    2011 DR MAMA. Youth programming project, precursor to DR3. DR

    PRODUCER DIRECTOR (tilrettelægger)

    2020 Cornflakes med lort og død ved kølle: Humoren der formede dig. Tv-kavalkade 5x30’. DR
    2013 Vogternes Råd sæson 1. Talkshow. DR
    2013 My History of the World. History documentary anthology. DR
    2013 What I never said. Documentary mini series 4x30’. DR
    2010 Ronni - Hundige Soldier. Mockumentary mini series. DR
    2009 The Ignorants — a climate reality show. Docureality 10x10’. DR
    2009 Klamphuggerne season 1. Investigative documentary series 10x40’. Nordisk Film TV for TV2
    2006 Kontant: Fishing in shark waters. Investigative current affairs magazine 30’. DR
    2005 Dags Dato: Undercover in a pyramid scheme. Investigative current affairs magazine. Bastard Film for TV2
    2005 CNN International London. Nyhedsprogrammer. CNN


    OTHER PROJECTS

    2010-15 Overheard in Denmark. Blog of snippets of dialogue overheard by its users (founder & editor)
    2007 Kravling Awards. Award and ceremony for students of journalism and photography (founder & producer)
    1999-02 MGP Aarhus. Band stand, song contest and live shows (founder & producer)