Martin Garde Abildgaard is a writer and director based in Copenhagen.

His debut feature film A BEAUTIFUL CURSE has been screened at 20+ international film festivals and won the Grand Jury Prize at both 

the 31st Cinequest Film Festival (USA) and Paris International Film Festival (FR).

The film is produced by Les Producers in association with Circus Alphaville and Creative Alliance. 

Martin is also known for his award winning shorts LOVEBIRDS, FUTURE RUINS, ORGAN and HYPOXIA, 

 and for his collaboration with the Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei 

on the documentary AI WEIWEI AT CYCLADIC.

Martin has earlier been Head of Development at Danish broadcaster TV 2 and Creative Director in the production company Strix, where he has developed several tv-formats. One of them was BACKTRACK which was sold to re-make in 7 countries and GRAB THE MIC sold to more than 50 countries.

Martin is a member of Danish Writers Guild and Danish Film Directors.