Expanding Creativity With Audio Description

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A new EU regulatory requirement is expected to mandate audio description for all film productions. However, producing audio description is currently costly, time-consuming, and complex—posing a significant challenge for broadcasters.

That’s why we’re coming together to explore creative potential, foster mutual understanding across the industry, and identify effective, innovative solutions. 

Through insights into the full production workflow – and cross-disciplinary conversations and networking – we aim to build a clearer overview of every link in the film production chain and hope to ignite new collaborations and business optimization across the film and TV industry.

Join us in moving accessibility forward!

Please note: This session will be in Danish.

Limited seats available.

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Date: May 20th, 2026

Time: 13:00 – 16:00

Language: Danish

Location: TV 2, Teglholmen – Copenhagen

Room: TBA

Price: Free for everyone!

 

For you interested in:

Sound and multimedia

Film/TV production

Accessibility

What Is Audio Description?

By Nick Dunkerley

“A bright red Ford Mustang roars by, with the hero at the wheel.”

That’s audio description.

For those who haven’t come across it before, audio description is an accessibility track designed for people who are visually impaired. It describes what’s happening in a scene, opening up films, series, and other media so everyone can fully experience the story.

Until now, adding audio description has often been voluntary. Fortunately, it is becoming mandatory in many contexts.

That’s good news.

But it also brings new challenges. Not just how to do it well, but how to do it economically. No extra budgets are being added to productions, so how do we make this a positive step forward for everyone involved?

Right now, media professionals are coming together to tackle exactly that.

Because accessibility isn’t just a requirement, it’s an opportunity to make better stories for everyone.

 

 

Agenda

13:00 Welcome w/ TV2, Morten Brandstrup, and DSC

13:10 Introduction w/ Jesper Holten

13:20 Legislation Overview w/ Tobias Nyhuus Jensen

13:30 Audio Description Examples w/ Dorthe Mikkelsen and Laura Wrang

14:00 Workflow and Software Tools w/ Nick Dunkerley

14:15 Coffee and Cake

14:40 Brainstorm Breakouts

15:20 Brainstorm Wrap-Up

15:45 Guided Tour of TV2

16:00 See You Next Time

You Will Meet

Morten Brandstrup Head of Newstechnology at TV 2 Danmark

Morten has since 1989 worked with nearly all aspects of live TV production as an SNG operator, director, reporter, cameraman, editor, sound engineer and field producer. Productions include Tour de France, Le Mans, World Cup football, The Olympics, Royal weddings, European and American elections, and Eurovision Song Contest for BBC.

Morten is also a board member in international organizations like World Broadcast Union International Media Connectivity Group (WBU-IMCG), EBU Technology 5G Content production and IBC accelerator program for 5G.

Jesper Holten Vice Chair at Dansk Blindesamfund

For the past four years, Jesper has been politically engaged in the fields of leisure and culture, working to increase the availability of audio-described content in Danish.

He has used audio-described content for nearly 20 years, since the first Danish films with audio description were released as trials in 2007/2008. Today, he watches audio-described films both in cinemas and at home via various streaming services, in both Danish and English.

The Danish Association of the Blind works to ensure a high availability of audio-described content in Danish – across films and other entertainment in cinemas and on TV – while maintaining high quality.

Tobias Nyhuus Jensen EU National Accessibility Expert

National Accessibility Expert appointed by the European Commission, Senior Technical Program Manager, Public Speaker, Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner and problem-solver by heart.

Laura Kamis Wrang Audio Describer and Voice Over Artist at Sammenslutningen af Professionelle Danske Synstolkere

Bio to come…

 

Dorthe Mikkelsen Hansen Audio Describer and Voice Over Artist at DMHspeak and member of SPDS

 

Experience as TV host, TV announcer, Short Film Director, and Script Writer led to Audio Description, with certification from ITFC London. Audio Described the original “Forbrydelsen” (The Killing) season 2 and 3, and subsequently many of the flagship titles from Denmark’s Radio (TV) as well as Christmas Advent Calendar series. Kulturministeriet (Danish Ministry of Culture), made it possible to Audio Describe for the cinema in 2015.

Dorthe has more than 55 movies on her resume, including the Oscar winning “DRUK” (Another Round). Also a handful of infomercials, for Dansk Handicap Forbund, Røde Kors (The Red Cross), Udenrigsministeriet DANIDA, and Dansk Blindesamfund.

 

Nick Dunkerley Founder and CEO at Hindenburg Systems

Nick Dunkerley is the co-founder and CEO of Hindenburg Systems and a lifelong advocate for audio storytelling. He began his career as a radio host, sound engineer, and producer at Danish National Radio (DR), where he learned that the way a story is told is inseparable from the truth it carries.

Frustrated by technology getting in the way of that responsibility, he co-founded Hindenburg to support those who take storytelling seriously, journalists, producers, and documentarians working to make sense of the world.

He is a frequent speaker and lecturer, known for his perspective that technology should never replace judgment – but support it

The seminar will be co-hosted by Jeppe Lindegaard, Danish Sound Cluster.

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