Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Miami, Florida, USA
Credits
18 titles
David Borenstein
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.
Known For
Filmography
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Director
Can't Feel Nothing
Himself
Inside China's Tech Boom
Director
The Great Electric Airplane Race
Producer
Superbats
Director
Race for the Vaccine
Editor
Inside the Daily Life of a Live Streaming Star in China
Director
Love Factory: The Price of Being a Social Media Star
Director
How We Change
Director
Decoding COVID-19
Producer
The Real Thing
Production Supervisor
Dream Empire
Director
Chinese Dreamland
Director
Big Dirk
Director
The Urban Wave
Director
Rent-a-Foreigner
Director
The Hand That Feeds
Associate Producer
NOVA
Director