Webmaster (film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Skyggen

| image = Skyggen boxcover.jpg

| director = Thomas Borch Nielsen

| producer = Søren Juul Petersen

| writer = Thomas Borch Nielsen

| starring = Lars Bom
Puk Scharbau
Jørgen Kiil
Karin Rørbeck

| music = Arne Schultz

| cinematography = Lars Beyer

| editing = Kasper Leick

| distributor = Scanbox (Denmark)
Sterling Home Entertainment (US)

| released = {{Film date|1998|df=y}}

| country = Denmark

| runtime = 97 minutes

| language = Danish

}}

Webmaster (original title Skyggen, also known as The Shadow) is a 1998 Danish cyberpunk thriller film.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0136535/releaseinfo|title=Webmaster (1998) - IMDb|via=www.imdb.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.danskefilm.dk/film.php?id=690|title=Skyggen (1998)|website=www.danskefilm.dk}}

Directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen, it stars Danish actor Lars Bom as the cerebral, machine-like hacker-turned-webmaster J.B., who performs his job while hanging upside down, wearing virtual reality goggles, his mind busy deep inside cyberspace. Upon witnessing a murder, he teams up with the impulsive, energetic Miauv (Puk Scharbau).

The film furthermore won a Silver Grand Prize at the 1999 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, and a Danish Robert Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmakademiet.dk/|title=FilmAkademiet - fremmer film og tv som kunstarter|website=www.filmakademiet.dk}} for Best Production Design.

The movie was financed by the Danish bank "Forstædernes Bank"Forstædernes Bank is no longer a functional lending and savings institution. and the final production cost was not disclosed by neither producers nor the director. When the movie was released in Denmark in 1998 it was met with mixed reviews.{{cite book |last=Piil |first=M. |authorlink=Morten Piil |title=Gyldendals danske filmguide |publisher=Gyldendal | year=2008 |isbn=978-87-02-06669-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=caRYl94i7xUC |language=da |access-date=22 June 2021 |page=494}}