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Its with great pleasure I’m able to share the first teaser to our short film “Mudbirds” on the occasion of it’s World Premiere at the @cphheadlinerfilmfestival Thursday 24th. July 16:40hrs. at @grandteatret.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/4kD1E7c

The film takes place during the Vietnam War and follows two helicopter pilots as they are confronted with what they have seen and done and question why they are there.

Mudbirds was the very first film I wrote, produced and played a lead role in. We began shooting in 2009. I was at drama school and wanted some practical experience and showreel material based on the notion of “putting my money where my mouth” is. As, how could I expect others to bet on me if I wasn’t willing to bet on myself first?

I made every mistake a new filmmaker can make and learned a lot! I’m sure most other filmmakers can relate. However, what also happened was the edit taking 2 years of work without being completed and then vanishing. I tried for years to find out what had happened to it.

Many years later, after moving from London - via Paris - to Copenhagen, I had all but given up on the project until the most surprising of coincidences meant I was able to regain some of the footage. Following, it took me numerous years to find a dedicated team to help me bring the project to its conclusion in late 2023. Old formats, file organisation, etc. meant it was no easy task!

Mudbirds does not represent where I am as an actor or filmmaker now, but it does illustrate the moment I - and many on the original team got their start and how much can be gained and learned in friendships and knowledge from finding your tribe of likeminded creatives who all push to finish something worthwhile, together.

I will forever remember and be grateful to everyone who joined and helped on this journey. To all filmmakers and actors: don’t forget the people that helped you when you needed it when you’re in a position to reach back and bring them up along with you!

#actor #actorslife #filmproduction #filmmaking #skuespil #indiefilm #skuespiller #screenwriting #shortfilm #chff #grandteatret #copenhagenheadlinerfilmfestival #dryblueagency #dba #dbagency #filmdirector taken in Grand Teatret by @karimtheilgaard

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What a way to cap off the summer ☀️Absolutely love this festival! 🫶🏽 It’s grown and developed these past 5 years and the @sydforsolen team has really taken on board a lot of feedback, improved and refined the offering in so many ways over the past three years I’ve taken part 🙌🏽 Looking forward to next year’s festival 🎵

#sydforsolen #turnstile #musicfestival #livemusic #copenhagen taken in SYD FOR SOLEN by @karimtheilgaard

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Celebrating the one year anniversary of the premiere of MUDBIRDS at @cphheadlinerfilmfestival 🌟 Here’s the second teaser, heavily featuring @jacobhallberg_music gripping music composition 🙌🏽 I found it fitting to also use the occasion to put the film’s themes in to a current context and shed a light on what is happening right now. Thank you to @siff.andersson for being quick to recognise the moment and capture it 🌟It was also a joy to see many friends there in support and especially my parents who made a tremendous effort to be there. Nothing would have been possible without them 🙏🏽

#filmmaking #shortfilm #actorslife #screenwriter #filmdirector taken in Grand Teatret by @karimtheilgaard

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A year ago, a very special project I had dedicated many years to finally received it’s public premiere 🌟 MUDBIRDS was the very first film I wrote, produced, creative directed and played a lead role in. I never thought I’d get to finish it but through the awesome help of friends, new and old, we did it! 🙏🏽 Here’s a look back:

1. With my ultimate Hype-Gurrl @diemcamille post-premiere 🙌🏽🙏🏽🫶🏽

#filmmaker #shortfilm #screenwriter #actorslife #filmproduction 📸 @danjalarge

2. Festival poster @cphheadlinerfilmfestival

3. The international members of the post-prod team who could make it to the premiere and I out for Vietnamese food. Special shoutout to these guys for working so hard on this project! 💪🏽🙏🏽🫶🏽 @argefilm @gabshans @jacobhallberg_music Christian Bechmann @rasmus

4. After party shenanigans with the final few at the very end of the festival @joelcudi @cph.headliner.ff.maria @david_silset @odinngetsit taken in Grand Teatret by @karimtheilgaard

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Cannes Comes to Copenhagen for a sunny day out on the water, in cool company. I love bringing people together, across the arts 🎬 🎥 🎵 🎭 🎨 🙏🏽🙌🏽☀️✨

#goodtimes #actorslife #copenhagen #filmmaker taken in Copenhagen by @karimtheilgaard

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3 months ago

Cannes Film Festival round-up pt. 1
The running theme was jokes. Thanks to all who made us laugh and laughed along the way! 🙌🏽🙏🏽😂☀️

#cannesfilmfestival #actorslife #filmmaking #casting #dbagency taken in Cannes, France - French Riviera by @karimtheilgaard

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First day in Cannes and @markgosse and I went out to explore our immediate surroundings and snap some shots of each other 📷 He caught me leaning up against this gorgeous tree 🌲 Edits by me.
@dryblueagency

#actor #sonya7iii #filmmaker #portraitphotography #dryblueagency by @karimtheilgaard

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The sword shall pass to younger hands,
From father to son, to son, to son.
Yet I dread the day it joins the grave,
Never again to see the sun.

Not that I despise the peace to come,
But fear a world that comes undone;
For some new tool, far worse to face,
Shall take the sword's forsaken place.

As I put this video together I noticed the same sword kept returning, even though there'd been many to choose from on the day of filming. Combine with Matt Maeson's song All My Wars, it inspired a montage of inner struggle and the question of 'to soldier through' even if it meant for generations to come.
For what if the day we put the sword away for good, is actually the day something worse has taken its place? A metaphor for holding on to something in fear of change being for the worse... Thus we might never find peace. It inspired the poem you read above. taken in Copenhagen, Dennmark by @karimtheilgaard

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It was good to put on and feel the weight of chainmail again⛓️

📷 @vasiljev_photo

@dryblueagency @frankmoiselle @krjcastingltd @alexirwin88
#vikings #filmmaking #nordic #actorslife #casting by @karimtheilgaard

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Channeling the Upside Down 🤘🏽 🎲 🐉 🎸
📸 @vasiljev_photo @netflixnordic

#strangerthings5 #strangerthings #hellfireclub #upsidedown #netflix #actor #actorslife #casting #netflixnordic #rock #rocknroll #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #hellfire by @karimtheilgaard

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“Adorable Humans” - our modern retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s chilling fairy tales is released in select cinemas this month. I play Scott, guitarist of a band who wants to take on song writing duties as the new singer struggles to produce any material - until a certain tooth fairy intervenes… go to @adorablehumansmovie for more.

@dryblueagency

#actor #acting #actorslife #indiefilm #featurefilm #horror #horrorfilm #filmproducer #hanschristianandersen #yndigemennesker #adorablehumans #danskfilm #skuespil #skuespiller #dba #dbagency #filmproduction taken in Valby Kino by @karimtheilgaard

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🎙️ ‘MUDBIRDS’ KAN STREAMES NU 🎙️

Mudbirds spilles i dag i @grandteatret ifm @cphheadlinerfilmfestival og det er nu denne 6 numres EP’ tur til at komme ud og leve!

Da jeg begyndte at begive mig ud på min rejse, som komponist til diverse kortfilm, var det relativt svært at finde projekter hvor der manglede en komponist/musik.
På en Facebook gruppe for filmentusiaster der søgte Crew til (for det meste) kortfilms produktioner, fandt jeg et oplæg for Mudbirds. De manglede vidst heller ikke en komponist, men jeg prøvede alligevel at skrive til oplæggets forfatter - @karimtheilgaard - om der nu ikke alligevel manglede lidt musik.

Karim var sgu super cool for efter en snak på Messenger var han med på ideen om at give mig mulighed for en rolle som komponist på Mudbirds, som var i sit postproduktions stadie.
Det var det fedeste at høre for en up and coming komponist uden det mest prangende CV eller egentlige erfaring!

Jeg arbejdede tæt sammen med Karim omkring skabelsen af musikken og det både overraskede og imponerede mig hvor åben han var for at der blev eksperimenteret med balancen mellem sound design og egentligt musik, og at musikken rent faktisk gerne måtte fylde i lydbilledet og tage front karakter.

Det er med enorm stolthed at jeg deler Mudbirds soundtracket med jer, og jeg håber at I vil lytte med 🙏

Instruktør: @karimtheilgaard
Artwork: @joelcudi by @karimtheilgaard

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