Independent Lens . A FAMILY AT WAR . Filmmaker Bios

A man with gray hair, a slight beard and moustache stands next to a woman dress military uniform and cap, both smile at the camera

Jørgen Flindt Pedersen
Director

Jørgen Flindt Pedersen was born in 1940 in Odense, Denmark. Pedersen was a journalist and foreign correspondent from 1964 to1987, editor-in-chief of Det Fri Aktuelt from 1987 to 1993, and head of TV 2/DANMARK from 1993 to 1999. He has directed more than 100 documentaries, including Your Neighbor's Son, about torture in Greece; When the State Kills, about the death penalty; and The Heritage from Seveso, about the dioxin scandal in Italy. His latest documentaries are the prize-winning The Vollsmose Boys, about young emigrants, and The Occupied, portraying a year in the life of five Palestinians.

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