David Borenstein

David Borenstein is an American documentary filmmaker.

Borenstein began his career in radio broadcasting and directed his first feature film, Dream Empire, in 2016.^[1][2] He spent ten years in China working on the film, shooting documentaries about the fringes of Chinese society.^[3][4] For this work, he received several nominations and won the Golden Alexander for Best Documentary at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

He is the director of the documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin released in 2025. It was screened in the main competition at the Sundance Film Festival^[5] where it won the Special Jury Award and was nominated for and won Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film Best Documentary Feature.

Borenstein lives and works in Copenhagen.^[6]