Biography
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.
Directed
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NOVA (1974) — Director
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) — Director
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Can't Feel Nothing (2024) — Director
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Dream Empire (2016) — Director
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Love Factory: The Price of Being a Social Media Star (2021) — Director
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Inside the Daily Life of a Live Streaming Star in China (2021) — Director
- Rent-a-Foreigner (2015) — Director
- Inside China's Tech Boom (2023) — Director
- Superbats (2022) — Director
- Chinese Dreamland (2015) — Director
- Big Dirk (2015) — Director
- The Urban Wave (2015) — Director
- How We Change (2021) — Director