Gitte Hansen

Consultant

Gitte is a free-lance consultant, tutor and EP in the international documentary film sector with experience in developing, financing, production and distributing documentary projects with international potentials. Gitte has executive produced more than 20 international independent documentaries for First Hand Films in Zürich where she was deputy director and headed sales and acquisitions for many years. Gitte is serving as a lecturer, mentor and tutor at national, regional and international workshops and film training schemes. Her experience includes work with filmmakers at project-driven programs such as IDFAcademy, DocCampus, Baltic Sea Forum, Crossing Borders and Thessaloniki Doc. Gitte is appointed mentor for the training schemes Close-Up and CinéDoc Tbilisi in 2021 and holds a Master of Film & Rhetoric from the University of Copenhagen.