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