wilderness films

Mikael Södersten has worked as a screenwriter, editor, sound editor, cinematographer, and location manager on features and documentaries in Denmark, Greenland and his native Sweden. His own short films have appeared on Swedish National Television. PASS, which he produced and directed, starred Michael Nyqvist, Sweden's leading film actor. FISSURA, made while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, was also broadcast and used as a teaching tool in Scandinavian hospitals. In the early 90s, he headed the National Swedish Independent Film Festival (Filmens Dag) and taught story structure in opera houses, corporations and at the Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In the mid-90s he ran the production division of a multimedia company, with a staff of twenty-five. He returned to filmmaking to co-direct, shoot, edit and sound-edit the offbeat documentary, FIVE FEELINGS ABOUT FOOD (2005), and to make a short to music, WHITE MAN'S BLUES (2006), both with his wife and filmmaking partner, Cornelia Ravenal. He recently consulted on and conducted interviews for PRIZE OF THE POLE, a Danish-Swedish co-production slated for international broadcast and distribution. He is currently the Senior Development Consultant for the Swedish Film Institute.

 

Cornelia Ravenal makes films using skills she’s honed over twenty years as a scriptwriter, photographer, composer-lyricist, production designer and journalist. Her career began in the ‘80s with the award-winning musical, OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN (book, music and lyrics), which was produced at theaters around the country and is slated for a revival in 2007. She also wrote or contributed script, lyrics and/or music to many other produced or published shows, including TWO’S A CROWD and SPIN CYCLE, both produced in New York. In the mid-90s she traveled frequently to India and worked as a journalist and photographer, with over sixty published pieces in India Today, The New York Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Verve, Art Asia Pacific, and other international publications. Later, she worked as a writer-producer of videos and multimedia events for Fortune 500 clients, guiding close to forty productions from inception through editing. In 2002 she went back to school at the New York Film Academy. Since then, she has collaborated closely with her husband, Mikael Södersten, as a producer, scriptwriter, production designer, still photographer and music supervisor. Her first solo photography show opens in Sweden in 2007.She has a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard.