In production
Carl Douglas
Carl Douglas
Carl is an entrepreneur and business-leader whose passion has always been the oceans. Carl co-founded Deep Sea Productions with Johan Candert in 1997.
In 2019 he founded the Voice of the Ocean Foundation together with a group of like-minded people. Additionally, he co-led the effort to locate the wreckage of the Swedish Air Force DC-3 intelligence-plane shot down by the Soviet Union in 1952. For this work he received a medal from His Majesty the King of Sweden. He received a BA degree in History from Middlebury College in 1988 and has also received an honorary doctorate for his work with the Baltic Sea.
Johan Candert
Johan Candert
Johan heads up the team at Deep Sea Productions. He is a veteran documentary film producer/director who began his career as an underwater photographer.
He has produced more than 20 full length documentaries and series for SVT (Swedish Television). He pioneered technical deep sea diving in Scandinavia and felt compelled to have a camera with him to document a world to which few other divers had access. This experience developed his passion not only for the language of pictures but also for the art of storytelling. Johan has a masters degree in documentary filmmaking from Stockholm University of the arts.
- +46 70 877 95 45
- johan@deepsea.se
Simon Stanford
Simon Stanford
Simon has over a long career filmed and produced news reports, documentaries and films from virtually every corner of the world.
He began his career filming and reporting for International broadcasters on the turbulent conflicts on his home continent, Africa. He has during a career that has spanned nearly 40 years filmed and produced reports, documentaries and nature series for many of the world’s major broadcasters. Simon’s work has allowed him to develop and express his passion for nature. Since 2012 he has in addition to his documentary film work been leading expeditions to many of Africa’s wild places.
Lena Scherman
Lena Scherman
Lena has been affiliated with SVT, Sweden’s Public Service broadcaster for more than 20 years. She has produced both long form documentaries and news reportage and has reported from over 60 countries.
Since 2011 she has been a driving force behind one of SVT’s premium current affairs programmes, Korrespondenterna (Correspondents) where she worked as producer/reporter and host. Among the many topics she has covered are coral death in the Philippines, the crisis experienced by local fishermen in the depleted waters off the coast of Tanzania and seal hunting in Greenland.
- +46 70 884 77 31
- lena@deepsea.se
Hjalmar Palmgren
Hjalmar Palmgren
Hjalmar Palmgren has a long career in film and television.
Hjalmar has been a film producer, post production producer for SVT Drama, documentary film commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute, project manager for SVT, Director of film funding and later Senior advisor at the Swedish Film Institute. Nowadays he splits his time between Deep Sea, his own production house DOCSTER and other consultancy assignments.
- +46 70 6911198
- hjalmar@deepsea.se
Göran Ehlmé
Göran Ehlmé
Göran is a multi award winning underwater photographer and filmmaker with over 40 years diving experience in open and icy waters.
He is particularly familiar with walruses, emperor penguins, leopard seals and orcas. Among his awards is the BBC’s Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition with his image of a feeding walrus underwater in Northeast Greenland. In addition to his film work Göran is the co-founder of Waterproof diving International AB and Waterproof Expeditions through which he was the first person to lead sport diving expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica and has since then led many field trips to the polar regions.
- +46 70 828 08 95
- goran@waterproof.eu
Tobias Dahlin
Tobias Dahlin
Tobias is a multi award winning underwater photographer who has among his many merits won the 2016 Cold Water class 1st prize in Ocean Art.
In recent years Tobias has focused on underwater filming and among his credits he has contributed to the film trilogy “The Kingdom of Fishermen” (Ecofilm / SVT autumn 21), “Fiskarnas universum” (Deep Sea Production / SVT May 21) and worked on art projects with Golaleh Farhang-Azad (Andetag) and Alightproduction (music video with Elysian – “Water”).
MarikaGriehsel
MarikaGriehsel
She began her career as a reporter for Swedish public service broadcasting and quickly became one of Sweden’s most prominent foreign correspondents, particularly known for her work in Africa.
During her years as a foreign correspondent for SVT, she reported on wars, crises and social changes in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Congo-Kinshasa, among other places. Her journalism is characterised by a deep commitment to human rights, justice and highlighting voices that are otherwise rarely heard in the international news flow.
Fredrik Stedjer
Fredrik Stedjer
After studying development studies at Lund University, he applied to Öland’s documentary film school to pursue documentary filmmaking, and then went on to earn a master’s degree in investigative journalism at the University of Gothenburg. Since 2020, he has worked in various roles in documentary film—as a director, editor, and production coordinator at Film and Tell and Helion Film, among others.
Amanda Saveland
Amanda Saveland
among others, as well as producing audio documentaries. She also has a master’s degree in documentary processes from Stockholm University of the Arts, and has studied climate and environmental policy at Luleå University of Technology.
Ronja Arnold-Larsen
Ronja Arnold-Larsen
She has completed a one-year internship as a documentary film editor. Since September 2024, Ronja has been working as a freelance assistant editor and social media content creator at Deep Sea Reporter.
Lina Mattsson
Lina Mattsson
Lina has a PhD in ecology and a degree in journalism. She has recently worked for SVT (Swedish Television) science.As a researcher Lina worked with recovery of industrial waste, using microalgae from the Baltic Sea, to find solutions to reduce the impact of eutrophication. During her years in research she felt that research findings were not communicated enough to society. After finishing her PhD she therefore decided to become a science journalist to work on informing the general public on issues related to the marine environment. Today Lina works full time as a reporter at Deep Sea Productions.
- +46 707125593
- lina.mattsson@deepseareporter.se
Helena Fredrikson
Helena Fredrikson
Helena has worked as a film- and documentary editor for almost thirty years. Among other things, with films such as Uppdrag befrielse (2023), Repetitioner (2005) and Jag gömmer mig i konsten (2020).
At Deep Sea Reporter, Helena has most recently made the film ’The Real Rulers of the Sea’ together with Peter Löfgren.
Helena and Lina are currently working on the project ‘The Sea in School’ with a large number of video inserts for teachers and students about the sea.
Kajsa Grandell