Person

David Borenstein

Directing · Miami, Florida, USA

David Borenstein is an American documentary filmmaker. Borenstein lives and works in Copenhagen. Borenstein began his career in radio broadcasting and directed his first feature film, Dream Empire, in 2016. He spent ten years in China working on the film, shooting documentaries about the fringes of Chinese society. For this work, he received several nominations and won the Golden Alexander for Best Documentary at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. In 2025, he released the documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, which screened in the main competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

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  NOVA

  Director

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  Mr. Nobody Against Putin

  Director

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  The Real Thing

  Production Supervisor

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  Dream Empire

  Director

• Chinese Dreamland

  Director

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  Love Factory: The Price of Being a Social Media Star

  Director

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  The Great Electric Airplane Race

  Producer

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  Can't Feel Nothing

  Himself

• Superbats

  Director

• How We Change

  Director

• 2025Mr. Nobody Against PutinDirector
• 2024Can't Feel NothingHimself
• 2023Inside China's Tech BoomDirector
• 2022The Great Electric Airplane RaceProducer
• 2022SuperbatsDirector
• 2021Race for the VaccineEditor
• 2021Love Factory: The Price of Being a Social Media StarDirector
• 2021Inside the Daily Life of a Live Streaming Star in ChinaDirector
• 2021How We ChangeDirector
• 2020Decoding COVID-19Producer
• 2018The Real ThingProduction Supervisor
• 2016Dream EmpireDirector
• 2015Rent-a-ForeignerDirector
• 2015Chinese DreamlandDirector
• 2015Big DirkDirector
• 2015The Urban WaveDirector
• 2014The Hand That FeedsAssociate Producer
• 1974NOVADirector