Biography
Bo Landin is the founding director of Scandinature Film. He holds a B.Sc. in biological sciences at University of Gothenburg and has 40 years of experience as a science, natural history and environmental writer and producer for magazines, books, radio and television. In 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. Films 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. Between 1990-2002 Bo Landin was the host and producer of Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4's regular natural history program, one of the most successful programs on Swedish television. International productions (for broadcasters like Discovery Channel, National Geographic, BBC, WDR/Germany, France 5 and others) 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, Taiga - forests of frost and fire (Grand Prix winner European Wildlife Film Festival 1999), The Death of a Bison Bull (Grand Prix winner Eco Film 1999), Last Roar of the Tiger and Indian leopards: the killing field; and as producer/director/writer for science documentaries like Secrets of the Pharaohs, Voices from the Desert - the Dead Sea Scrolls, Surviving the Ice Age, Viking Voyages and internationally award winning films like Yellowstone - America's Eden, Tundra Hunters and Living with Wolves. Most recently Bo Landin produced and directed films like Ice Hotel, Ultimate cruise ship: Freedom of the Seas, Nature's Dance (for Discovery Channel) and Iceland Volcano Eruption, Into Iceland's Volcano and World's Largest Cruise Ship (for National Geographic Channel). In 2005 Bo Landin produced and directed his first feature film; Macbeth, set in a landscape of snow and ice, with actors performing in Sami language. The film was the winner at the 2006 European Minority Film Festival in Germany. His 2009 feature documentary Learning from Light - the Vision of IM Pei has won acclaim at film festival worldwide. His latest feature documentary - Toxic Puzzle - has received multiple awards. As a writer, director and/or producer Landin has more than 50 international film accolades to his name and he regularly directs films in co-productions with major international broadcasters - mostly focusing on natural history, science, environment and historical documentaries. After a year as a visiting professor teaching science filmmaking at the Brigham Young University in Utah in 1993, Landin introduced the concept to Montana State University in Bozeman. The idea was to take students with a science background and film students and train them to be filmmakers as a way to increase the public's understanding and interest in science and natural history. The class has since then run as a MFA program in science and natural history filmmaking. Bo Landin was also an adjunct associate professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, teaching advanced filmmaking.
