Kristian Håskjold is a Danish director born in 1989. His last two short films Forever Now and A Worthy Man have been screened at 50 festivals all over the world. Forever Now has won 10 awards, among them the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the SXSW festival in 2017. In the same year, Håskjold was also nominated for Adobe’s Nordic Creative Talent Award. A Worthy Man won Best European Short Film at the Leuven International Short Film Festival 2018, was long-listed for the European Film Awards 2019, and was thereby qualified for submission to the Academy Awards in 2020.