Anders Hammer

BIOGRAPHIE

http://andershammer.com/ Anders Hammer filmed and directed the documentary “Do Not Split” which takes us within the heart of the Hong Kong protests that started in the summer of 2019. The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and received the Special Jury Prize at AFI DOCS, Special Jury Recognition for Courage under Fire at DOC NYC and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary in 2021. Hammer directed the documentary series “Our Allies” from Syria and Iraq for Field of Vision. He also directed and produced “Escape from Syria: Rania’s Odyssey”, which was published by The Guardian and won a Webby Award and a One World Media Award for Best Refugee Reporting in 2018. The documentary went viral and gained more than 10 million views and 100,000 shares in social media. Hammer is one of the directors of the documentary "Exit Afghanistan" published by Netflix. Hammer lived and worked in Afghanistan for six years and has written four documentary books about the country. In Norway, where Hammer was born in 1977, he has directed eight documentaries for the Norwegian investigative journalism program NRK Brennpunkt and many short documentaries. He has received the Fritt Ord Award (which is given in support of freedom of expression), the International Reporter's Journalism Award twice and the Big Journalist Award.

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