Career
He is best known for the film Ai Weiwei The Fake Case (2013), about the Chinese artist and activist"s life and battle against charges placed against him by the Chinese government. Johnsen"s films often look at social issues in many different parts of the world, including Kidd Life (2012), about the Danish rapper and YouTube star Nicholas Westwood Kidd, and Manitoba Ooman (2008), which looks at sex and gender relations in Jamaica through dancehall culture. In 2014, the Danish Film Critics Association granted him the Bodil Award for Best Documentary.
