Career
He wrote the short film The Pig, that was nominated for an Oscar in 2009. The 2011 biopic A Funny Manitoba, was the biggest local box-office hit in Denmark in 2011. He has since written a number of episodes of Danish drama The Legacy and is currently co-creating a new series for the same network, DR, the show is called Follow the Money and is a thriller on financial crime.
lieutenant will premiere at the 2015 Berlinale.
In 2015, British Broadcasting Corporation America / Administrative Management College announced they were developing a show created by August. He is the son of Danish film and television director Bille August.