The ocean is the blue heart of our planet and is essential for all forms of life, including our own. It regulates the climate, provides food, produces much of the air we breathe and is an endless source of enjoyment and inspiration. Ocean Dreams will take audiences on a global adventure to reveal the fascinating, and largely unexplored, world beneath the waves.
From the deep fjords of Norway where orcas skillfully hunt schools of herring, to the vibrant waters of Raja Ampat in Indonesia home to pygmy seahorses and the richest biodiversity on Earth. Dive with marine iguanas as they dine on algae in the protected Galapagos islands, be mesmerized by the epic “sardine run” off South Africa’s Wild Coast and explore the incredible behaviors and complexity of marine life. Human activities are challenging the health of the ocean like never before. Be amazed by compelling stories of resilience and recovery and see how once depleted ecosystems are exploding back to life.
Johan Candert is a veteran and highly experienced documentary film producer/director who began his career as an underwater photographer. In 1997 he co-founded Deep Sea Productions with Carl Douglas.
Johan Candert 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 master’s degree in documentary filmmaking from Stockholm University of the arts. He has produced more than 25 full length documentaries and series for SVT (Swedish Television).
Johan has dived and filmed all over the world, pioneering the exploration of deep wrecks and cave diving, all the while developing a growing passion for the wild life beneath the sea.
CloseCarl is an entrepreneur and business-leader whose passion has always been the oceans. Carl began taking underwater photographs in the early 1990s. In 1997, he co-founded Deep Sea Productions together 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.
CloseHjalmar has been a film producer, post production producer for SVT Drama, documentary film commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute, commissioning editor for SVT, Director of film funding and later Senior advisor at the Swedish Film Institute. He worked with feature fiction films and tv series before turning to documentaries. At SVT he worked with international acclaimed titles like Mailk Bendeloulls Academy award winner Searching for Sugarman and Liv Ullmanns Cannes Palm d’or nominee Faithless.
CloseGöran is a multi-award-winning underwater photographer and filmmaker with over 40 years diving experience (in open and icy waters.) He began his film career by filming Orcas underwater already back in 1986. Not knowing how they would react to humans around them. His international breakthrough came in 2006 when he filmed walruses in Greenland. For his photo of a walrus eating underwater in Northeast Greenland, he won that year's prestigious “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” award. Since then, Göran Elhmé has travelled to the far corners of our planet as an underwater cameraman for BBC and National Geographic.
CloseSimon 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 is an award-winning photographer with a career that has spanned nearly 40 years of filming and producing 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 several years, Simon heads the expeditions that Deep Sea Production conducts all over the world.
CloseTobias is a prize-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. For his latest feature film, Secrets of the Western Sea, Tobias won the award for Best Nordic Nature Film at the prestigious Green Screen nature film festival in Germany 2025.The documentary was also awarded Best Photography and the Estonia Fund Special Prize at the Estonian nature film festival MAFF, Matsalu Nature Film Festival in Lihula, the same year.
ClosePetter Hansson has more than 25 years of experience in documentary, factual entertainment, and commercial film production. His clients include global brands such as H&M, EA Games, Ubisoft, Education First, Spotify, Deezer, and Roborock. He has produced documentaries featuring Quincy Jones and Her Majesty the Queen of Sweden, served as a narrative consultant on AAA titles including Battlefield, and worked as Executive Producer on the epic series Survivor.
His recent documentary series Secret Sea — a high-stakes Cold War story uncovering one of the Baltic’s most dramatic hidden events — was nominated for Best Documentary Series at both the Swedish Emmy Awards (Kristallen) and the Ria Gala. He is also the creator and producer of the acclaimed documentary Clock – Socialist Burgers Inc., a sharp and entertaining exploration of Sweden’s state-owned fast-food experiment and its place in modern cultural history.
As a producer, he received the Swedish Film Institute’s Documentary Award for The Substitute.
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