Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

LUMO (2007), my NBR-winning, feature-length documentary, won a 2007 Student Academy Award and premiered on PBS's 2007 "POV Series." It screened at over 100 different festivals and other public venues, and was awarded a 2008 "Harry Chapin Media Award" for the best film dealing with poverty. My short film LES VULNERABLES (2007) screened at over thirty festivals all over the world including premieres at the 2007 New York Film Festival (Closing Night Short) and the 2008 Berlinale. It won a Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 AFI Dallas Film Festival, as well as the Focus Features' "Best Director" Award at the 2008 Columbia University Film Festival.  As a result of these films, I was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Film" in 2008.  I also served as the associate editor of VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR (2008), a feature-length documentary that has won multiple awards in festivals worldwide and is currently the second highest grossing documentary of 2009.

I'm now developing a feature-length script set in Cuba called ON THE LEFT.  It's a drama about a Cuban American cell phone consultant who gets roped into the black market in Havana and must decide where his loyalties lie. It was the recipient of a 2009 Sundance Institute / Sloan Foundation Commissioning Grant.  I hope to finish writing the script in the next several months and then direct it on location in Cuba sometime in 2010. I also just wrapped up directing, producing and editing a 50-minute feature film about a young couple struggling to make sense of their future in Cameroon.

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