VAMIZI - CRADLE OF CORAL (2016) This film depicts the astonishing coral reef in the Quirimbas archipelago just off the mainland of Mozambique, which is threatened by many dangers. We follow a team of scientists who hope to stop the damage before it starts.
THE YOUNG SEA (2018) Released in the fall of 2018, it is the second and last film of the 10 year project together with Baltic2020. It aims to increase education and love for our suffering sea of the north, the Baltic Sea. Beauty lives there yet.
THE CONTEMPLATOR (2013) A beautiful film full of poetry and reflection. Describing life around the Baltic Sea, man and animal alike. This is the first film in the 10 year project with Baltic2020, aimed at inspiring people to consider the beauty around them, and thus care for it.
THE CORAL EDEN, 2011 The remarkably diverse coral reefs, mangroves and lush archipelago in the Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua, Indonesia, is the main setting for this film. Dozens of fish and coral species – including two new species of shark that walk on their fins – have recently been discovered in these waters. Here, in an area covering 45 million acres of marine environment, researchers have documented more than 1,400 species of fish and 600 species of reef-building coral, the latter equal to 75 percent of the world’s known total. All of this exists within a territory that is small enough to actually protect and preserve. Raja Ampat sparkles with life forms of every shape and hue imaginable, and harbor a wealth of species, including some of nature’s earliest creations. In the film, scientific research is used to explain the importance of biodiversity down to its smallest microorganisms, which are essential to and in many ways the foundation of all life on Earth.
THE TESTAMENT OF TEBARAN, 2011 In this revealing and powerful testimony, the last man of a dying Bornean tribe tells his story while unassuming consumers shop for the products that cause his extinction. It is western demand for tropical timber and palm oil that is threatening Tebaran, the headman of one of the world’s most remote and mysterious tribes - the Penan of Borneo. In his lifetime he has seen his people and their nomadic hunter-gatherer way of life pushed to the edge of extinction. Palm oil, which is used for biodiesel, is marketed in the west as a green alternative to fuel. But in fact, as the fi lm reveals, it is causing the destruction of Borneo’s rain forests and imperils one of the world’s last peoples remaining true to the oldest of human lifestyles. There are only a few hundred of them left. Tebaran has seen his people forced onto government settlements. But Tebaran stubbornly refuses to leave his rainforest - even as tropical timber companies and oil palm plantations are clearing it all out. For Tebaran, it is almost over. He has fought a losing battle and is now a wanted man. But before he and his people vanish for good Tebaran will – for the first time – speak his mind.