David Borenstein
Directing
Miami, Florida, USA
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.
Filmography
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
2025 · Movie
Can't Feel Nothing
2024 · Movie
Inside China's Tech Boom
2023 · Movie
The Great Electric Airplane Race
2022 · Movie
Superbats
2022 · Movie
Race for the Vaccine
2021 · Movie
Inside the Daily Life of a Live Streaming Star in China
2021 · Movie
Love Factory: The Price of Being a Social Media Star
2021 · Movie
How We Change
2021 · Movie
Decoding COVID-19
2020 · Movie
The Real Thing
2018 · Movie
Dream Empire
2016 · Movie
Rent-a-Foreigner
2015 · Movie
Chinese Dreamland
2015 · Movie
Big Dirk
2015 · Movie
The Urban Wave
2015 · Movie
The Hand That Feeds
2014 · Movie
NOVA
1974 · Series