
MIKAEL SVENSSON, Southern Sweden
Mikael Svensson is filling in for Natasha Banke as Swedish film commissioner at the Oresund Film Commission. Svensson, who has an MBA from the University of Lund, has worked as a film producer for almost 10 years. For the past three years, he has been involved in developing a Swedish production company, Hepp Film. Apart from developing and producing features and documentaries at Hepp, Svensson was in charge of establishing a branch of the company in India.
Svensson holds a position at Film i Skåne in Ystad, which naturally implies even closer cooperation between the OFC and the regional Swedish film fund.
 ULRIK BOLT JØRGENSEN, Denmark
Bolt Jørgensen has produced several feature films a.o. Belma, Katja’s Adventure, Leïla, Misery Harbour and exec. produced international film-shoots in Copenhagen.
Moreover, Ulrik Bolt Jørgensen is the director of the succesfull theatrical-released documentary Nordkaperen, with the Danish adventurer Troels Kløvedal, plus numerous commercials.
A graduate of the production program at the National Film School of Denmark, Bolt Jørgensen later studied film financing in Los Angeles.
 NATASHA BANKE, Sweden (Maternity Leave)
A film producer with over ten years in the business, Natasha is the executive producer of more than 30 nationwide television commercials, plus short films, music videos and documentaries. In recent years, Natasha has worked as a producer for the Malmö-based production company Solid Entertainment AB, spearheading successful efforts to attract international TV commercial production companies to Southern Sweden.
Among Banke’s other production credits are Paramount Pictures (The Saint), BBC (The Stringer) and CBN. Moreover, Banke has served as a producer for multinational advertising agencies, including McCann-Erickson, Russia.
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