Jesper Dalgaard, born 1989, graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 2017 with the movie Weltschmerz.
Weltschmerz won a Robert Award for Best Short Documentery and was shortlisted for South by Southwest.
In 2021, Jesper Dalgaard had his debut in long-form documentary with Kandis for livet, for which he won a Bodil Award for Biografklub Danmark Talent Award and was nominated for Best Documentary.