Sidsel Filipsen is a researcher, director’s assistant and film producer. She is Research Associate on the CREAM research project Documentary of the Imagination, working closely with Professors Joshua Oppenheimer and Rosie Thomas on all aspects of the project. Sidsel is educated as a film producer from Super16, the leading independent film school of Denmark. She has a background in Anthropology, which she studied at the University of Copenhagen, with a special emphasis on Visual Anthropology. Since 2014, Sidsel has been collaborating with Joshua Oppenheimer and producer Signe Byrge Sørensen at the Copenhagen-based film production company Final Cut for Real. Working with both fiction and documentary projects, Sidsel has produced eight short films to date and has several feature length projects in development. She was Director’s Assistant on Joshua Oppenheimer’s musical feature debut, The End (2024).