Christoffer Guldbrandsen penetrates closed and secretive milieus like no other, from where he draws the material for his documentary dramas. His films are characterised by an expressive realism in structure, form, and content. With understated but effective means, he lets the characters and the dramas unfold. Building tension and triggering laughter and head shaking over the reality that unfolds. A mainstay in Guldbrandsen's films is his ability to turn complicated subject matter into cinema. He highlights the often banal, unassuming actions that reveal essential character traits and emotions of humans in high-tension situations. In a striking visual style and with a sense for sharply drawn characters, Guldbrandsen delivers dramas from the political reality among the winners and losers of power. His breakthrough film, "The Road to Europe" (2003), was an observational doc-thriller about the enlargement of the European Union, that created an international stir when it revealed that Germany would never let Turkey into the EU. Russian President Vladimir Putin was also upset by the film, publicly protesting, he had been recorded during a private conversation. Guldbrandsens observational film about the rise and fall of the new political party New Alliance, has become a satirical landmark documentary - and an inspiration for the drama hit-series "Borgen." In addition to his film work, Guldbrandsen has served as CEO for The Why Foundation, Commissioning Editor and Channel Controller for DR - The Danish Broadcasting Corporation.