robin@petrefilms.com
+45 93 93 73 90
+45 93 93 73 90
Robin Petré is a Danish film director born and raised in Mols. Her award-winning films have screened at numerous festivals around the world. Her work revolves around our coexistence with nature while placing the audience at eye level with the animal world.
She is currently filming her second feature, ONLY ON EARTH. Her feature-length debut, FROM THE WILD SEA (2021), premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival with a nomination for the Berlinale Documentary Award, and received the Grand Prix at the Global Science Film Festival among other awards. Her short film, PULSE (2016), was awarded with the Silver Dove for An Outstanding Artistic Contribution at DOK Leipzig.
Robin Petré was among the Jurors of the 2022 IDA Awards. She’s an alumna of Berlinale Talents (2022), Nordic Film Lab (2020) and IDFAcademy (2019). She holds an MA in Documentary Film Directing from Doc Nomads (2015).
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She is currently filming her second feature, ONLY ON EARTH. Her feature-length debut, FROM THE WILD SEA (2021), premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival with a nomination for the Berlinale Documentary Award, and received the Grand Prix at the Global Science Film Festival among other awards. Her short film, PULSE (2016), was awarded with the Silver Dove for An Outstanding Artistic Contribution at DOK Leipzig.
Robin Petré was among the Jurors of the 2022 IDA Awards. She’s an alumna of Berlinale Talents (2022), Nordic Film Lab (2020) and IDFAcademy (2019). She holds an MA in Documentary Film Directing from Doc Nomads (2015).
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RESIDENCIES, DIPLOMAS & ACTIVITIES
2022 Juror, IDA Awards
2022 Berlinale Talents
2021 Juror; Nahal Intl. Student Short Film Festival
2021 True/False Mentorship Program (USA)
2020 Nordic Film Lab (Scandinavia)
2019 IDFAcademy (Netherlands)
2018 Uncapitals Intl. Art Residency (Norway)
2018 Stop-Motion Animation workshop — EICTV (Cuba)
2018 Experimental Non-Fiction workshop — EICTV (Cuba)
2017 GO SHORT - New Arrivals Talent Camp (Netherlands)
2017 CINECUNTI Cinema Art Residency (Italy)
2015 HANDMADE CINEMA 16mm workshop
— Salzburg Intl. Summer Academy of Fine Arts (Austria)
EDUCATION
2013-2015 DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTING (MA)
Doc Nomads, Budapest/Lisbon/Brussels
2011 Ethnographic Film (exchange program)
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2008-2012 JOURNALISM (BA)
The Danish School of Media & Journalism, Aarhus
FUNDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation) grant
2019-2020 New Danish Screen; production funding
2018 Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation) travel grant
2018 Danske Filminstruktører; development funding
2018 Vestdanske Filmfond; development funding
2017 The Danish Film Institute; grant
2015 Salzburg International Summer Academy grant
2014 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
2013 Nordisk Film Fonden — Store Isbjørn
2013 Nordeafonden
2013 Overretssagfører Sigurd Jacobsens Mindelegat
2013 Knud Højgårds Fond
2011 Global Environmental Journalism scholarship
2022 Juror, IDA Awards
2022 Berlinale Talents
2021 Juror; Nahal Intl. Student Short Film Festival
2021 True/False Mentorship Program (USA)
2020 Nordic Film Lab (Scandinavia)
2019 IDFAcademy (Netherlands)
2018 Uncapitals Intl. Art Residency (Norway)
2018 Stop-Motion Animation workshop — EICTV (Cuba)
2018 Experimental Non-Fiction workshop — EICTV (Cuba)
2017 GO SHORT - New Arrivals Talent Camp (Netherlands)
2017 CINECUNTI Cinema Art Residency (Italy)
2015 HANDMADE CINEMA 16mm workshop
— Salzburg Intl. Summer Academy of Fine Arts (Austria)
EDUCATION
2013-2015 DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTING (MA)
Doc Nomads, Budapest/Lisbon/Brussels
2011 Ethnographic Film (exchange program)
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2008-2012 JOURNALISM (BA)
The Danish School of Media & Journalism, Aarhus
FUNDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation) grant
2019-2020 New Danish Screen; production funding
2018 Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation) travel grant
2018 Danske Filminstruktører; development funding
2018 Vestdanske Filmfond; development funding
2017 The Danish Film Institute; grant
2015 Salzburg International Summer Academy grant
2014 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
2013 Nordisk Film Fonden — Store Isbjørn
2013 Nordeafonden
2013 Overretssagfører Sigurd Jacobsens Mindelegat
2013 Knud Højgårds Fond
2011 Global Environmental Journalism scholarship