Hailing from Denmark, Morten studied Film Studies and English at the University of Copenhagen with a semester in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA. It was here he first entered the world of wildlife filmmaking when filming a collaborative nature documentary about deer hunting in the Chequamegon Forest of Northern Wisconsin.

Not content with merely filming on the surface, after finishing university, Morten moved to Australia where he trained and worked as a Divemaster in order to be able to film underwater as well. To gain additional experience and practice he also joined various marine conservation projects in the region, ending with the Thresher Shark Project in the Philippines. Here he came into contact with the production company Scubazoo based in Malaysian Borneo which he subsequently started working for.

During his time with Scubazoo, Morten gained valuable skills in all levels of documentary filmmaking, while working on several productions for international broadcasters such as Discovery Channel, ZDF and Nat Geo Wild both abroad in the Philippines but also closer to Scubazoo’s home base in Sabah, Borneo.

As a freelancer, Morten has since then worked on several different projects both at home and abroad. Most notably he spent six months in Africa while working on a two-part series about the African elephant, filming in Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Later on, he joined a documentary about the Bornean orangutan and the troubles it is currently facing, filmed in the Central Kalimantan region of Indonesian Borneo. Most recently, Morten was traveling all over Greenland, filming greenland sharks, narwhals and musk oxen along the way, for several documentaries about life and survival in the extreme regions of the Greenlandic Arctic.

At the moment based in Denmark, with several projects in various stages of development, Morten is still keen to work anywhere in the world should the right opportunity arise. He is comfortable working as part of a crew, but also capable of delivering finished sequences or films independently.

For full details on Morten’s work experience have a look at his CV.

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