Participant in the MDAG Industry meetings.
Born 1965, Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael Haslund was educated as a producer at The Danish Film School in 1993, and 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. 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 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.
In 2006 Haslund Film released the award-winning documentary film “Afghan Muscles” directed by Andreas M. Dalsgaard who also co-wrote and directed “The Great Game” released in 2018.
After the documentary The Expedition to the end of the world from 2013, which did both theatrical and broadcast release in Scandinavia, US, Canada, England, Germany, Benelux and many other countries and festivals around the world, Haslund produced his first independent fiction drama Guldkysten // Gold Coast in 2015, and the second fiction Miss Osaka shoot in Northern Norway and in Osaka / Japan. The film was released in 2021.
From August 2005 - August 2010 Michael Haslund-Christensen was appointed Film Consultant for Documentaries for The Danish Film Institute (www.dfi.dk) commissioning app. 20 titles each year.
Since 2014 Michael Haslund-Christensen has been the Honorary Consul of Mongolia to Denmark. http://mongolietskonsulat.dk
Since 2022 Haslund joined Elk Film in Copenhagen a managing director and producer:https://www.elkfilm.dk
Michael Haslund-Christensen: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1415769/?ref_=tt_ov_wr
