BROADCASTER:
DR (Danish Broadcasting)
FESTIVALS:
CPH:DOX, 2022
Portland Film Festival, 2022
Liverpool Film Festival, 2022
DOC:London - AWARD Best feature documentary, 2022
Torino Underground Cinefest - AWARD Best editing, 2023
Obskuur Ghent Film Festival, 2023
Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, 2023
STORYLINE:
A young man from Odense becomes a YouTube star with the channel ‘Ask Casper’. But where does the (self-)ironic staging end, and who is the real Casper when the webcam is off?
In 2012, 20-year-old Casper Harding from Odense started his YouTube channel ‘Ask Casper’. For the occasion, he creates a simple-minded and emotionally confused character, whom viewers can ask all sorts of questions. At first it’s just for fun. But suddenly he has over a million views, then over 80 million, and then he’s in the regional news. He is recognised on the streets, attends awards ceremonies and is hired as a publicity figure by big companies. But slowly doubts arise as to where ‘Ask Casper’ ends and Casper Harding begins. And when he becomes a father in the middle of it all, he is forced to deal with his troubled relationship with his own father.
CREDITS:
Director: René Odgaard
Producer: Maria Helga Stürup
Photography: René Odgaard, Casper Harding, Thomas Korsholm, Anders Lindved
Editor: Andreas Bøggild Monies
Sound: Patrick Svaneberg Vejen, Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
Composer: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
B-editor: Martin Nygaard Friis Hansen
Editing supervisor: Anders Albjerg Kristiansen
Editor pre-production: Bobbie Esra G. Pertan, Wiebe van der Vliet, Steen Bech
Producer development: Maria Helga Stürup, Julie Leerskov, Julie Linn Milling, Kirstine Barfoed, Jesper Jack
Post-producton coordinator: Maria Robstad
Executive producer: Katrine A. Sahlstrøm, Patricia Drati, Katrine Philp, Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Boris Benjamin Bertram
Graphic design: Gustav Pontoppidan
Online and colorgrading: Adam Bendixen
VFX: Martin Munck Schmidt
Production company: Good Company Pictures
International sales: Good Company Pictures
Produced in collaboration with / with the support of:
Creative Europe's MEDIA program
Danish Film Institute
FilmFyn
DR ( Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
Filmworkshop / Copenhagen
Good Company Pictures © 2021