Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt (Director/Producer) holds a BA with honors in Screenwriting from Brown University and an MFA with honors from Columbia University (2007). He served as the co-producer and additional editor of CONTROL ROOM (Magnolia Pictures, 2004). He has also directed, edited, shot and/or produced films for organizations including UNIFEM, The U.S. Department of Education, WGBH, The Global Leadership Campaign, and the Lincoln Center Film Society. Last year, Bent-Jorgen taught an undergraduate course on documentary filmmaking at Columbia University and worked with WITNESS as a field trainer for human rights lawyers in Northern Uganda and is currently a correspondent for UNICEF. His latest fiction film, LES VULNERABLES, was just selected to be the closing night short of the 2007 New York Film Festival.