Director's Works
Danish Heart Foundation, Keep Walking Pelle Gøtze
Pelle Gøtze has never directed a skateboarding film for his friends.
But he does have a soft spot for contradictions, dark humour, and people doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. Growing up in working-class Aalborg, Denmark he later directed documentaries about cloned horses and lovable rednecks in Texas.
He now directs commercials & campaigns that try (and sometimes fail) to make sense of modern life. He’s drawn to stories that take themselves seriously - even when they probably shouldn’t. Often in the space between logic and absurdity, where sincerity becomes comedy, and comedy becomes something else entirely.
He was shortlisted 3 times in the comedy category (which made it 50% of the total shortlists in the category) at YDA in 2024 and didn’t win anything. Making him the first in history to do so. Ever.
The film was created for The Danish Heart Foundation to address a common, overlooked health issue: adults who know they should move more, but dismiss walking as too insignificant to matter.
Instead of amplifying the problem, we stripped it down. No urgency. No stats. Just people walking where walking makes no sense. AND continuing as if it does.
Humor isn’t used to entertain, but to lower defences. The film encourages us to “keep walking”, by simply reminding us that every step counts. Even the strange ones.
