AWARDS & CV

Danish cinematographer, graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1997. Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®-nominated work across documentary, fiction and commercials – from Sundance, Cannes and Venice premieres to HBO, Netflix, BBC and National Geographic – often filmed under extreme conditions in conflict zones and remote environments worldwide.

Awards & Nominations

Bodil Award 2011 – Armadillo
“It has never happened before that the Bodil for Best Photographer is awarded for a documentary. With a camera on his shoulder, Skree came home with images from Afghanistan that show the horrors of war and peace – one eye on what happened around him, the other free to think about the film’s expression. A task performed by a master in total balance.” The Bodil, est. 1948, is given by the Danish film critics.

Roos Award 2010 – “Tough guy, yet a poet”
Awarded at Ebeltoft for putting his life on the line filming Armadillo. The committee (DFI) praised his ability to live in the moment with a “7th sense” for what is about to happen; his sharp aesthetic eye across staged and real, poetic and raw; his generosity as a collaborator; and his compassion. “Yin and yang – a combat soldier, yet a graceful line dancer.”

Juries, Talks & Education

Documentary

Pole to Pole with Will Smith
National Geographic · Nutopia, Westbrook, Protozoa
Will Smith’s 26,000-mile journey from the South Pole to the North Pole across every biome – ice, desert, jungle, mountain, savannah, swamp – embedded with local communities over 100+ filming days. EPs incl. Will Smith, Darren Aronofsky and Jane Root.

Simple As Water
HBO · Dir. Megan Mylan · 2021 · 99 min · Oscar® shortlisted
Oscar-winning director Megan Mylan follows Syrian families over five years in five countries – Greece, Turkey, Syria, Germany and the U.S. – revealing the impact of war, separation and displacement. Epic in scope, intimate in feel.

Niels Bohr: The World’s Best Man
Dir. Anna von Lowzow & Marie Breyen · Cinema release 30 Jan 2023
A vivid portrait of the Dane who left perhaps the biggest mark on the 20th century: Nobel Prize at 38, the institute that became a mecca for physics, and the wartime race between the great powers to get hold of him.

Indian Matchmaking – Season 2
Netflix · EPs Smriti Mundhra, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, J.C. Begley
Matchmaker Sima Taparia guides clients in the U.S. and India through the arranged-marriage process – an inside look at the custom in a modern era.

The Romantics
Netflix · 4-part docu-series · Dir. Smriti Mundhra
Celebrates filmmaker Yash Chopra and 50 years of Yash Raj Films – the history of Bollywood told by 35 leading voices of the Hindi film industry, including the stars who made it a household name globally.

Taliban Celebrating 20 Years of Victory
Current affairs · Afghanistan

Welcome to the Frontline
6-episode series · DFI
Denmark’s war effort over three decades – from peacekeeping to a nation at war in the Middle East – told from both sides of the front line, giving voice to those we fought against and those we defended.

Prime Suspect in the Madeleine McCann Case
Discovery+ · Exclusive
Madeleine McCann vanished from a Portuguese holiday resort in 2007. German police now believe they know who is responsible; investigative journalists explore the new suspect.

The Red Ring
October Film, Finland · Dir. Joonas Berghäll · 90/52 min · 2021
Director Joonas Berghäll, suffering from chronic Lyme disease, searches for a cure – and finds himself in the middle of a lobby-driven, political medical debate about a potential epidemic.

The Kings of Bollywood
4-episode series for a major streaming platform · Post-production

The Search for Gaddafi’s Billions
BBC Storyville · VPRO/NPO, ZDF/Arte · Brook Lapping, Gebrüder Beetz · 90 min
Dutch journalists Misha Wessel and Thomas Blom enter a world of spies, special forces, bounty hunters and arms dealers hunting Gaddafi’s missing billions in South Africa. International Emmy® nominated 2021.

India – Manipur
In progress

Into the Deep
Netflix · Dir. Emma Sullivan · 2020
Filmmaker Emma Sullivan was documenting inventor Peter Madsen when journalist Kim Wall disappeared aboard his submarine. Built on footage from Madsen’s lab before the murder and interviews with his team.

Zero Days: Cape Town
South Africa · In production
What happens when a city runs out of water?

The Kingmaker
Dir. Lauren Greenfield · Showtime · Premiere Venice Film Festival 2019
Unprecedented access to Imelda Marcos exposes the family’s history of corruption, extravagance and brutality – and how, at 90, she still drives the revival of authoritarianism in the Philippines.

Our Godfather
Netflix · Hot Docs · Dir. Mark Franchetti & Andrew Meier
Tommaso Buscetta, the first high-ranking Mafia boss to break the code of silence, helped convict 400+ Mafiosi; 11 family members were killed. His wife and children speak on camera for the first time after 30 years in hiding.

Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram
BBC Two This World & HBO Documentary Films · Blakeway · Emmy® nominated 2019
The first TV access to the Chibok schoolgirls freed after four years of Boko Haram captivity in Nigeria – following their reunions with family and their attempt to come to terms with what happened.

Know Your Enemy
2 episodes · Drive Studios
Afghan-born journalist Nagieb Khaja and former Danish soldier Martin Tamm Andersen return to Helmand to understand the country through dialogue with people on both sides.

Kailash / The Price of Free
YouTube Originals · Dir. Derek Doneen · Sundance Grand Jury Prize 2018 · Emmy® nominated 2019
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi and his team use hidden cameras and covert informants to raid factories and rescue trafficked children – including the search for Sonu, missing for eight months.

Generation Wealth
Dir. Lauren Greenfield · U.S. · Sundance Documentary Premieres 2018
Career retrospective and film essay: 25 years of Greenfield’s work seen through the lens of materialism and the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The War’s Hidden Face
Danish series · 2017 · South Sudan, East & West Ukraine, Mosul (Iraq)
Host and former soldier Martin Tamm Andersen tells overlooked stories from forgotten conflicts – from the frontline in Mosul to children fleeing Islamic State schools and a Kurdish sniper near Kirkuk.

How to Meet a Mermaid
Zeppers Film, Netherlands · Holland & Egypt
A mesmerizing documentary about the sea and the people drawn to it, with spectacular underwater sequences.

The War Show
Syria · Dir. Obaidah Zytoon
Radio host Obaidah Zytoon and her friends film their lives from the 2011 protests against Assad through civil war, imprisonment and the rise of extremism – a deeply personal road movie through Syria.

Rent-a-Foreigner in China
The New York Times Op-Docs · Dir. David Borenstein · 2015
Chinese housing developers hire ordinary foreigners to pose as celebrities to boost flagging property sales.

Chinese Dreamlands
ZDF & Arte, DR1, DFI, The New York Times
The “Exotic Flavour Talent Agency” stages spectacles where foreigners pose as stars, models and diplomats to turn rural ghost towns into “cities of the future” – until the housing bubble deflates and the business fights to survive.

Uganda – Child Soldiers
TBA

Syria
Feature film · Work in progress 2013–2015

The Art of Being First to Arrive Too Late
Swedish TV1 (SVT) · Dir. Thomas Nordanstad
Photographer Paul Hansen’s Gaza image won World Press Photo 2013. He returns to the surviving mother – and asks what such an iconic picture means for the family, and whether it can bring change.

7 · 9 · 13
Plus Pictures · DR, DFI · 2014 · 4 × 40 min · Dir. Bettina Mouridsen, Louise Detlefsen, Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Five couples followed over the years from their wedding day – a series about believing in love while family structures change.

Freak Out!
Dir. Carl Javér · Vilda Bomben Film (SE) · Co-prod. Final Cut for Real (DK)
In 1900 middle-class youths founded Monte Verità – the original alternative community of veganism, feminism, pacifism and free love. Interviews, archive and animation.

CNN Heroes 2012
CNN · Afghanistan & New York · Dir. Tim Gruzca
Razia Jan provides free education to 350 girls in rural Afghanistan at her Zabuli Education Center, despite the threat of violence.

Operation Celeste / Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Dir. Mads Brügger · Prod. Peter Engel · Electric Park / Zentropa
Was UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld murdered when his plane crashed near Ndola in 1961? A political thriller – “John le Carré meets Graham Greene”.

Syria: Aleppo, Love and War
DR1 · Dir. Puk Damsgaard · TV Festival Best Photography 2013

The Sumo Wrestler’s Son
Japan · Dir. Simon Lereng Wilmont
Young sumo talent Chikara idolizes – and fears – his strict father, a former professional wrestler. A heart-warming story of expectations and a boy who learns his father loves him no matter what.

The Look of Silence
Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer · Oscar® nominated · Golden Frog, Camerimage

The Act of Killing
Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer · Toronto International Film Festival
Unrepentant Indonesian death-squad leaders are challenged to dramatise their role in genocide – a hallucinatory fever dream into the minds of mass murderers.

Stealing Africa – Why Poverty?
Zambia
Why does Africa remain poor despite vast natural wealth? Local journalists expose how mining multinationals pay as little as 0.6% tax on Zambian copper through complex tax-evasion schemes.

Putin’s Kiss
Denmark · Sundance World Cinema Documentary Cinematography Award
19-year-old Masha is a model spokesperson for Nashi, Russia’s pro-Kremlin youth movement. When she starts recognising its flaws, she must take a stand for or against it.

Al-Shabab
Somalia
Youngsters raised in Europe.

Light of Eternity
Two high-end jewellery brands – the French giant Cartier and the upcoming Danish Shamballa – and their heads of design.

Armadillo
Dir. Janus Metz · Premiere Cannes, Semaine de la Critique 2010
Two young Danish soldiers, Mads and Daniel, on their first mission in Helmand. A character-driven psychological drama about the reality of war, where democratisation meets combat at micro-level.

The Samurai Case
Denmark
For the first time in Danish history an entire court case was filmed: a man killed his best friend with a samurai sword – accident or deliberate act?

Blood in the Mobile
Dir. Frank Piasecki Poulsen
The link between our phones and the conflict minerals funding the bloodiest war since WWII in Congo.

Ticket to Paradise
DFI, DR1 (HD) · Part 2 · Thailand · Dir. Janus Metz
In a Thai village there are two kinds of families: those with a daughter married to a Dane, and those without. Sommai helps young women find a Danish husband.

Love on Delivery
DFI, DR1 · Part 1 · Denmark · Dir. Janus Metz
575 Thai women live with Danish husbands in remote Denmark – 15 years ago only a few did, among them Sommai, a former bar worker from Pattaya.

Bloody Cartoons
2007 · Global democracy series
One of ten one-hour films on contemporary democracy by award-winning filmmakers, broadcast simultaneously in 25+ countries.

Cambodia
Documentary about the country’s huge landmine problem.

Afghanistan – Redzone
TV2
Reports from an ISAF mission in Helmand province; clashes with Taliban fighters.

The Swenkas
Dir. Jeppe Rønde · DFI · Scope 2.35:1 · 35mm · CPH:DOX Best Cinematography 2005
Portrait of the Swenkas – working men in post-apartheid South Africa who take great pride in their flashy suits.

The Freeway
U.S.A. · Dir. Jacob Thuesen · DFI · DV/S8 to 35mm · CPH:DOX Best Cinematography 2006
People living, working and travelling on the freeways of Los Angeles.

Living Miracles
Dir. Lene Stær · Zentropa Real · DFI · DVCAM to 35mm
Miracles in the Catholic world – from Vatican City and the mountains of Bosnia to the desert around Area 51.

The Mission – Part II
Mozambique & Bosnia · Dir. Jacob Bendtsen
Two young Danes from the left-wing SFU help counterparts in Sarajevo and Banja Luka build a political organisation.

Welfare!
New Zealand
Bruce and Debbie, in one of Auckland’s poorest areas, juggle jobs and three kids to survive under a very liberal government.

The Mission
DR1 · South Africa & Mozambique · Dir. Jacob Bendtsen
Over six months, two young Danes from a liberal political group help colleagues in Mozambique organise.

Fight for Money
3 programmes · Japan
Danish/Greek K-1 fighter Nicolas Pettas, living in Japan for 12 years, on the road to his big match in Tokyo 2001.

The Bear and the Gentleman
55 min · S16mm · Zentropa Productions, Olzenfilm · 2001
Portrait of the famous Danish actor Jens Okking.

Chicken Farm
2000
The daily life of a Danish woman working in a chicken factory.

Biker Jens in Asia
11 programmes · Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore · 2000
A well-known Dane explores Asia on his Harley-Davidson.

Forced Risk
1999
Contractors who gamble with their workers’ health and safety.

City Plans
3 programmes · DR1
How the authorities plan cities across Denmark.

Children of Gaia
1 hr · Dir. Bente Milton · Milton Media, TV2, DFI
The implications of extreme physical abnormality. Awards incl. Best Documentary, Nordic Film Days Lübeck 1999; Danish Film Academy Documentary of the Year 1999; Golden Gate Certificate of Merit; PRIX EUROPA Special Recommendation; Best Documentary, Festival Internacional del Medi Ambient, Gavà; Danish Disability Foundation Prize 2000; Nordic Panorama travel grant; TV Festival nomination 2000.

The Girls from Toi’s Place
DR1, SVT, ZDF/Arte · DFI · 2000
36-year-old Toi owns her own bar in Thailand; her British husband owns nothing. Ten years ago it was the other way round.

African Dance
TV2 · 1998 · 28 min
About Danish-African marriages.

The Sex Trap
Phuket, Thailand
Two Danish men and their personal experiences in a tourist paradise.

Accused of Child Sex
Thailand
A 37-year-old Dane ends up in one of Thailand’s most notorious prisons after corrupt police in Pattaya extort $123,000; he is released with help from the Danish embassy.

Another Europe
DR1 · 1997 · French
Economic and political relations between the EU and Martinique.

Colson
1997 · French
A run-down French psychiatric hospital in the middle of the jungle on Martinique.

Released
4 episodes · DFI
Four people released from Danish prisons, followed for a year: Son of a Gangster · Henrik’s Return Trip · Nikki the Kid · Maria’s Lovers.

Senior and Sex
S16mm · Denmark/Spain · DFI
Do elderly people have an active sex life?

Shoah
Holocaust documentation project founded by Steven Spielberg following Schindler’s List.

Poland
1996
Weapons smuggling in Poland.

MTV Europe
November 1992
The Swedish extreme right wing.

After High School
DR2
Four young people followed after leaving high school.

Beirut – Between a War Generation
DR1
Youth growing up in a war zone: a Palestinian girl and a boy from Hezbollah.

Fiction

Walk With Me (De Standhaftige)
Feature · 2015/16
Thomas, 25, loses both legs to a landmine in Helmand. In rehabilitation he meets Sofie, a rising ballerina from the Royal Danish Ballet, and despite their differences they develop a special bond.

Max Embarrassing 3 – Goes to Roskilde Festival
Feature · Dir. Lotte Svendsen · Asta Film
16-year-old Max defies his mother and throws himself into festival life – while she keeps an eye on him from a “safe” distance. With Samuel Heller-Seiffert, Mette Horn, Lars Bom.

Outsider
TV series
Sebastian, part of the popular crowd, is dared into a dangerous jump and ends up in a wheelchair – changing life for him and outsiders Mary and Frede.

Max Embarrassing II (Max Pinlig 2)
Feature · Dir. Lotte Svendsen · Premiere 7 June 2011
Max, now 14, chooses a bank internship against his mother’s wishes – so she enrols him in a free-spirited camp, while his love life hangs by a thread.

Max Embarrassing (Max Pinlig)
Feature · Dir. Lotte Svendsen
Max has fallen for Ophelia and wants to be one of the cool guys – if only his ‘max’ embarrassing mother wouldn’t ruin it all.

Max – Part 2
DR1 · 8 episodes · Dir. Lotte Svendsen
Series for children aged 9–14 on the consequences of stealing, lying and trust.

Max – Part 1
DR1 · 8 episodes · Dir. Lotte Svendsen
Series for children aged 9–14 on the consequences of stealing, lying and trust.

Life Insurance
Experimental short · 35mm · Dir. Jacob Thuesen · Tju Bang Film, Fine & Mellow
The spectacular life in an insurance company. Script by Line Knutzon & Jacob Thuesen.

Baby!
Feature · DFI
Adaptation of Kirsten Thorup’s award-winning novel about rootless young urbanites hunting love, sex and money. With Ulrich Thomsen, Jesper Christensen, Maria Rich and the band Sort Sol.

One-Hand Clapping
Feature · 35mm 1.85:1 · 84 min · Zentropa · 2001
Wealthy, ageing Svensson’s trip to Spain with his young mistress is derailed by a paternity suit – with a young undertaker at the wheel of his Jag.

Mona’s World
Feature · 35mm · Camera operator (DP Morten Søborg)
Sidse Babett Knudsen as Mona, a 30-something single whose ordinary visit to the bank makes her life as exciting as her dreams.

Tom Merrit
Short · B&W S16mm · DFI
A suggestive visual poem based on Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology – the first part of a trilogy.

Stills Photography

Locations

Syria – Aleppo 2012 · Russia – Novosibirsk, Moscow · Iran · Qatar · Dubai · South Sudan · Ethiopia · Lebanon – the Green Line 1992 & 2007 · Afghanistan – Helmand, embedded with ISAF · Cambodia · Vietnam – Mekong Delta · Turkey – Alanya 2006 · Spain – Madrid, Barcelona · South Africa – Johannesburg, Natal · Sri Lanka – Tsunami · Iraq – Erbil, Baghdad, Basra 1993–2018 · Thailand – various

Books, Exhibitions & Reportage

Politiken travel guides
Mexico · Thailand · South Thailand

Une autre France
Exhibition, Martinique

My Life with Horses
Picture book about Princess Nathalie of Denmark

The Wall on the Wall
Exhibition on the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 (B&W)

With Law We Break the Rights
Exhibition on the squatter movement in Copenhagen, Hamburg, Berlin, 1990 (B&W)

The Quiet Revolution
Exhibition on the end of communist Czechoslovakia, Prague 1989 (B&W)

Intifada
Exhibition from the West Bank, Gaza and the Rafah and Jabalia camps, 1991 (B&W)

In the Middle of the Grey
Exhibition 1993 with Broder Bernild and Jesper Lambæk; text and music by Dan Turèll (B&W)

PKK
Report from Iraq and southeast Turkey (Sirnak, Diyarbakir) for the newspaper Information, 1993 (B&W)

Department of the Environment
Photographer, 1990

Commercials

Arla · Blue Water Shipping · Café Pitstop · Citroën · DONG · Fritz Hansen · Grundfos · Home · Jabra Headsets · Jyllands-Posten · Lotto · Louis Poulsen · Ministry of Health · Ofir · Rambøll Management · Realgruppen · Sterling Airways · SuperBrugsen · Telia · Toms · Widex