MARIANNE LANDIN
BO LANDIN
PAUL ALAN COX
SCIENTIST
PRODUCER
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
Bo Landin is the award winning founding director of Scandinature Film. He holds a B.Sc. in biological sciences and has 40 years of experience as a science, natural history and environmental writer and producer for magazines, books, radio and television. In 1976 Landin set up and run as its executive producer and presenter the environmental program for Swedish National Radio. In 1984 he set up the weekly environmental program for Swedish Television and presented the acclaimed show for several years, setting a benchmark for environmental films and reporting on European and world television. Films from this period include Prix Italia winner Arctic Tragedy, the winner of the Grand Prix at the European Environmental film Festival Cubatao - the Valley of Death. Between 1990-2002 Bo Landin was the host and producer of Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4’s regular natural history program, one of the most successful programs on Swedish television.
International productions (for broadcasters like Discovery Channel, National Geographic, BBC, WDR/Germany, France 5 and others) include as executive producer: Laponia, Wolverine - the last phantom, Cheetahs - running for their lives (Genesis Award winner - Best cable documentary US 1998) and Nagarhole - tales from an Indian Jungle, Taiga - forests of frost and fire (Grand Prix winner European Wildlife Film Festival 1999), The Death of a Bison Bull (Grand Prix winner Eco Film 1999), Last Roar of the Tiger and Indian leopards: the killing field; and as producer/director/writer for science documentaries like Secrets of the Pharaohs, Voices from the Desert - the Dead Sea Scrolls, Surviving the Ice Age, Viking Voyages and internationally award winning films like Yellowstone - America’s Eden, Tundra Hunters and Living with Wolves. Most recently Bo Landin produced and directed films like Ice Hotel, Ultimate cruise ship: Freedom of the Seas, Nature’s Dance (for Discovery Channel) and Iceland Volcano Eruption (Emmy nomination for Cinematography), Into Iceland’s Volcano and World’s Largest Cruise Ship (for National Geographic Channel).
In 2005 Bo Landin produced and directed his first feature film; Macbeth, set in a landscape of snow and ice, with actors performing in Sami language. The film was the winner at the 2006 European Minority Film Festival in Germany. His 2009 feature documentary Learning from Light – the Vision of IM Pei has won acclaim at film festival worldwide.
Before joining the film industry Marianne Landin spent 15 years as a pharmacist, setting up and heading new hospital and primary health care pharmacies. With her training as a pharmacist and biologist , her interest has focused on health care in different cultures and on ethnobotany and toxicology. This led to her first work in the media industry, researching and producing the documentary film Green Medicines - a Growing Asset in 1989. This was a first step, soon followed by research for and productions of several science shows for TV and international documentary films.
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In 1995 Marianne Landin became the producer of the weekly show naturen (Nature) for Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4. In this position she was also responsible for international program acquisitions for TV4’s natural history slot. In partnership with the program’s host Bo Landin she traveled around the world to produce more than 100 episodes of the acclaimed show.
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Marianne Landin is the producer and production manager for Scandinature’s international documentary films.
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Marianne Landin resides in the Heber City, Utah, USA, and since more than 20 years Scandinature Films operates out of the USA.
A native of Utah and Wyoming, Paul Alan Cox graduated in Botany and Philosophy from Brigham Young University. As a Fulbright Fellow, he read for his M.Sc. in Ecology at the University of Wales. He later received his A.M. and Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University where he was a Danforth Fellow and a National Science Foundation Fellow. At Harvard, he was twice awarded the Bowdoin Prize in Literature. He was later awarded a D.Sc. Honoris Causa by the University of Guelph.
After serving as Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Cox was named a Presidential Young Investigator by Ronald Reagan. In the same year, he was also named as a Melbourne University Research Fellow. He served as Professor and later Dean at Brigham Young University before being appointed as the King Carl XVI Gustaf Professor of Environmental Biology in Uppsala in honor of the Swedish King’s 50th birthday. Cox was awarded the E. K. Janaki Ammal Medal from India and is a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry in Stockholm. He has published over 200 scientific papers and 4 books.
In 1997, TIME magazine named Cox one of 11 “Heroes of Medicine” for his work in ethnobotanical drug discovery. In the same year, he was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his efforts in preserving Samoan rain forests and later shared the Rachel Carson Award with Senator Tom Harkin. He was elected President for the Society of Economic Botany and President of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology. He served for seven years as Director of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens in Hawaii and Florida.
Cox founded and is chairman of Seacology, an environmental organization headquartered in Berkeley, California, which has preserved 98,000 acres of rain forest and 1.7 million acres of coral reef on islands throughout the world. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the National Park of American Samoa, a park which he was instrumental in establishing. Cox has served on the boards of the AIDS Research Alliance, the Center for Plant Conservation, and Hawaii Reserves.
Cox is a resident of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he is Director of the Institute for Ethnomedicine. His current ethnobotanical research is focused on neurodegenerative illness with the goal of discovering new therapies for ALS and Alzheimer’s Disease.
Film Credits
A film by
BO LANDIN
Cinematography
BJÖRN TJÄRNBERG
HAMPUS EURENIUS
KYLE DAVAARK
CHRIS MILLER
FED WETHERBEE
GREG WINDLEY
SCOTT WINTERS
BO LANDIN
Drone and gimbal cinematography
DAN CZERWONKA
Camera Assistants
LINN MARNFELDT
CARLOS ALISWAG
Sound Recording
OLA ELIASSON
ROB FREEMAN
CHRIS KALINSKI
STEVE LANERI
JIM REBRACA
Editing
BO LANDIN
Additional Editing
MICHAEL FOX
Editing Consultants
THOMAS STORESUND
ADAM VAN WAGONER
Assistant Editor
JOHNNIE MARTINEZ
Colorist
BOB FESTA
Company 3
Sound Mix
MICHAEL McDONOUGH
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Archive Material
SWEDISH TELEVISION
JOHN STEELE
JOHN CARNEY
RACHAEL DUNLOP
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
STEPHEN MCCULLOCH
DYLAN HANSEN
NASA
ABC RADIO
VINCE BUCELLO
SHUTTERSTOCK
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
ABC NEWS VIDEO SOURCE
WPTV
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Thanks to
MARILY K. ASAY
SANDRA BANACK
JAMES METCALF
JAMES POWELL
Institute for Ethnomedicine
KIRBY KEARNS
Resolutions Productions
Qatar
DIANA UDEL
University of Miami
FRANK JENNINGS
ROGER TOKARS
NASA Glenn Research Center
Bergius Botanic Garden
Stockholm
The Royal Swedish Academy
of Agriculture and Forestry
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LISA SAMFORD
Jackson Hole Wild
RENEE WILLIS
SWEDISH TELEVISION
Malin Attefall
Åsa Sandström
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Production Manager
MARIANNE LANDIN
On Location Producer/Director
DAVID MALONE
Qatar
PENELOPE COBBOLD
Australia
Location Support
MILLIE LOCKHART
Qatar
SUSUMU ONODERA
NORIMITSU MIYAGI
Japan
Music
ALAN WILLIAMS
Voice
CAITLIN CLAWSON
Graphics
FIDO/GOODBYE KANSAS
VFX Producer
CLAES DIETMANN
Animation
JONATHAN SKIFS
Modeling & Lookdev
LINUS HOLM
Lookdev, Light & Render
SEAN KALAMGI
Compositing
FREDRIK MANNERFELT
CGI Cyanobacteria Animation
TORBJÖRN JOHANSSON
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And a special thanks to all the
scientists and their assistants who have
helped us in all possible way during this production
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In loving memory of
ELEANOR O’CONNELL DECRET
with thanks to
DAVID DECRET
GRACIE O’CONNELL
This has been a co-production with
SVERIGES TELEVISION
ANNA SCHYTT
Commissioning Editor
INGEMAR PERSSON
Head of Documentaries
Produced by
BO LANDIN
MARIANNE LANDIN
SCANDINATURE FILMS USA INC.
© 2017
 Location producer David Malone, with DP Kyle Davaark, sound recordist Chris Kalinski and Carlos Aliswag in the desert in Qatar |  |  Composer Alan Williams scoring Toxic Puzzle |
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 Post Production wizard Adam van Wagoner and colorist Bob Festa at Company 3 in Los Angeles |  Sound mixer Steve Laneri preparing narration with Harrison Ford |  DP Greg Windley and gimbal operator Dan Czerwonka working with Bo Landin in Grand Teton NP |
 Gimbal operator Dan Czerwonka |  DP Björn Tjärnberg and assistant Linn Marnfeldt working in local food store in Ogimi village, Okinawa, Japan |  Bo Landin filming cyanobacteria "bloom" in Lake Okeechobee, Florida |
 DP Hampus Eurenius and sound mixer Ola Eliasson shooting in greenhouse in Stockholm, Sweden |  DP Scott Winters, Jim Rebraca sound and Marianne Landin at Grand Lake St Marys, Ohio |  Colorist Bob Festa at Company3 doing his magic with the images |
 DP Scott Winters and Bo Landin finding solutions to shooting in a cold room at Miami Brain Bank. | |  Scott Winters respectfully filming brains in cold room at Miami Brain Bank. |
 Harrison Ford, narrator, with Bo and Marianne Landin |  DP Scott Winters and sound mixer Jim Rebraca getting sea legs on Lake Erie, Ohio |  Landscape filming in Ogimi village, Okinawa Japan |
 Local ride in Ogimi village, Okinawa Japan. DP Björn Tjärnberg and camera assistan Linn Marnfeldt |  DP Björn Tjärnberg, assistant Linn Marnfeldt get introduced to local cuisine in Ogimi, by Hana Mayagi and Paul Cox. |  Hampus Eurenius with Ola Eliasson, and Marianne and Bo Landin at greenhouse in Stockholm, Sweden |
 DP Hampus Eurenius preparing shot with sound mixer Ola Eliasson and Bo Landin at Stockholm University's Baltic Sea Lab |  DP Hampus Eurenius filming Baltic Sea scientists in Sweden |  Paul Cox with scientists Renée Richer and Aspasia Chatziefthimiou in the desert in Qatar |
 Harrison Ford, narrator working with director Bo Landin |  Location producer David Malone, with DP Kyle Davaark, and sound recordist Chris Kalinski in the desert in Qatar |  Paul Cox visiting with Ellie O'Connell-Decret, ALS patient in Paris |