Tue Steen Müller has worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. He is the co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU, and EDN (European Documentary Network). From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). Since 2006, he has been a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF, as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DocsBarcelona, Message2Man in St. Petersburg, and DOKLeipzig. He teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano, Italy, and writes reviews at www.filmkommentaren.dk. In 2004 he received the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to Danish and European documentary culture. In 2006 he received an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries, and in 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of European documentary culture”. In 2016 he was honoured with The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits in Lithuania. In 2019, he received a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. He received the highest state decoration, the Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for his significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia in 2021. The following year he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition, for having served as organiser and programmer since the start of the festival.