She is the head of and co-founder of the film production company Final Cut for Real in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Signe Byrge Sørensen's next film with Joshua Oppenheimer The Look of Silence from 2014 is a companion piece to The Act of Killing.
Signe Byrge Sørensen won Cinema Eye Honors awards for the production of both The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.
[3] In 2014, Signe Byrge Sørensen received Denmark’s most prestigious award in documentary filmmaking, the Roos Prize.
In 2021, the film Flee - produced by Monica Hellström and Signe Byrge Sørensen - had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2021, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary section.
At the same festival the documentary President - produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen and directed by Camilla Nielsson - won Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking.