Mads Damsbo

Mads Damsbo (1984) - is a creative producer, entrepeneur and passionate user-experience designer, focused on bringing forward impactful narratives, leveraging emerging technology; provoking unexpected emotions in diverse audiences. As the founder and creative director of the multiple award winning XR content studio Makropol he has raised over 5 million € for original productions, led numerous creative teams, including a full symphony orchestra, through complex workflows and started several new companies along the way,

Mads’ most notable work includes The Doghouse (2014) - a first-person film installation, Festival Nouveau Cinéma, NYFF, Cannes NEXT and The Future of Storytelling; The Shared Individual (2016) - a collective VR experience at Idfa DocLab; Doom Room (2017) - a mixed reality VR performance. Recently he produced Ole Bornedal’s The Shadow (2021) and End Of Night (2021), which won the coveted Lion for best Immersive Narrative at the Venice Film Festival and was voted Best Film of 2021 by Politiken.

Currently Mads is acting as CEO and creative producer at Kaspar AI, a deep tech company that he co-founded. Kaspar is focused on using AI to co-create audiovisual storytelling, specifically helping editors work with large amounts of filmed material.