About Lise Birk Pedersen

Danish director Lise Birk Pedersen became interested in in documentary filmmaking when she traveled to China as a lone 16-year-old girl. Smelling change in the air and witnessing the "many great stories, contrasts and characters illustrating that" inspired her sketchbook drawings, but that didn't satisfy her enough. She debuted her first short, doc "Margarita," in 2003, and followed it up with several other shorts (including 2010 short "Nastya in Love") before tackling her first feature, "Putin's Kiss," which was just shown at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.