Biography
Michael Haslund-Christensen is owner, CEO and producer at Haslund Film Aps and Haslund Dencik Entertainment.
Michael Haslund is educated as a feature film producer at The Danish Film School in 1993 together with the new generation of Feature Film makers that later has become the fresh Dogme start of new Danish Cinema. Before Michael had production companies producing since 1985, with his first film as a director, producer and distributor in 1988 called The Track - A crossing of the Inland ice of Greenland in the footsteps of Fridtjof Nansen broadcasted in more than 25 countries. In 1990 he directed and produced Jabonah - Journey into Mongolia. After Film School he produced two feature films "The Crystal Child" and "The Eye of the Eagle" for Metronome Productions in Copenhagen. In 1996 he founded Haslund Film that have specialized in making documentary films and fiction films by linking individual talent and projects to national as well as international investors and co-producers and special experience of filmmaking in Asia and the Arctic regions - see list below.
In 2006 Haslund Film released two award-winning films "The Prize of the Pole" directed by Staffan Julén and "Afghan Muscles" directed by Andreas M. Dalsgaard who also was co-developing and directing the documentary project "The Great Game" released in 2018.
From August 2005 - August 2010 Michael Haslund-Christensen was appointed Film Consultant for Documentaries for The Danish Film Institute commissioning app. 20 titles each year. Among the International titles where: Armadillo, The Good Life, Danish Dynamite, Tankograd, Complaint Choirs), Shaman (Animation), Cities on Speed - Shanghai / Mumbai / Cairo / Bogota (TV-Series), Love on Delivery and Ticket to Paradise, 69, Mechanical Love, Love Addicts, The Presidency, Free the mind and The man who saved the world.
After August 2010 MHC reopened Haslund Film Aps focusing in producing both documentary and fiction for both the domestic as well as the International market. With local development, and international pitching at major festivals and markets in Europe, Northern America and China Haslund Film is an international player with a wide network from documentary, fiction and visual art.
After the feature documentary "The Expedition to the end of the world" (released in 2013) did well in both theatrical and broadcast with release in Scandinavia, US, Canada, England, Germany, Benelux and many other countries and festivals around the world, Haslund joined forces with director/writer Daniel Dencik to produce the fiction drama Guldkysten // Gold Coast released in 101 Danish Cinemas in July 2015 and in Norwegian cinemas in January 2016.
In august 2016 Haslund Film presented the visual art video Hope & Fear as a 3-screen 20-meter wide installation at the main square of Kgs. Nytorv as an open-air performance during Cph Art Week, playing every night for 4 hours.
In 2018 The Great Game / Fædre & Sønner was released in Danish cinemas and broadcasted in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Belgium. A Family chronicle about 3 generations of Haslund fathers and their special relation to Central Asia and especially Mongolia.
In 2021 the arthouse feature fiction "Miss Osaka" directed by Daniel Dencik was produced by Haslund as the first Danish, Norwegian and Japanese co-production. It was released in Danish cinemas in September 2021.
Since 2014 Michael Haslund-Christensen has been the Honorary Consul of Mongolia to Denmark.
