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Bo Landin
Bo Landin, executive producer and founding director of Scandinature Sweden and Scandinature Films USA Inc. Thirty years of experience as a science, natural history and environmental writer, director and producer for magazines, books, radio and television.
His award winning work for national radio include documentaries about environmental issues like nuclear waste and forestry and multiple award winning books on environmental and biological issues such as acid rain. In the 1976 Landin set up and run as its executive producer and presenter the environmental program for Swedish National Radio. In 1984 he set up the weekly  environmental program for Swedish Television and presented the acclaimed show for several years, setting a benchmark for environmental films and reporting on European and world television. Film from this period include Prix Italia winner Arctic Tragedy, the winner of the Grand Prix at the European Environmental film Festival Cubatao - the Valley of Death, and international award winners like Seal Mourning, The Baltic Sea, Another Silent Spring and Green Medicines.
Between 1990-2002 Bo Landin has been the presenter and executive producer of Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4’s regular natural history program, one of the most successful programs on Swedish television.
Recent international productions include as executive producer: Laponia, Wolverine - the last phantom, Cheetahs - running for their lives (Genesis Award winner - Best cable documentary US 1998) and Nagarhole - tales from an Indian Jungle, (for Discovery Channel, TV4, WDR, YLE), Taiga - forests of frost and fire (Discovery, NHK, WDR, TV4, Grand Prix winner European Wildlife Film Festival 1999) and The Death of a Bison Bull (Grand Prix winner Eco Film 1999) and as producer/director/writer for science documentaries like Secrets of the Pharaohs (Discovery Channel, Channel Four UK and TV4 Sweden),  Voices from the Desert - the Dead Sea Scrolls, Surviving the Ice Age and Viking Voyages (for Discovery Channel) and internationally award winning films like Yellowstone - America’s Eden, Return of the Raptors, Tundra Hunters and Living with Wolves.
Bo Landin recently premiered his first feature film. He directed and produced Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Sami language, a story set in snow and ice north of the Arctic Circle.
Bo Landin is a regular lecturer and tutor at international master classes for filmmakers in Europe and North America. |
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