Michael Jorgensen is a Canadian filmmaker and producer. He worked as a photojournalist throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He worked in

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in 1992 before the United Nations sanctioned

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. Jorgensen has trained numerous reporters and producers at the

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as well as the staff for the Canadian science TV series '' Daily Planet''. Jorgensen won a 2003 Emmy for Best Long Form News and Current Affairs Documentary for ''Battle of the X-Planes'', based on his access to a U.S. Department of Defense weapons competition in 1998. Jorgensen founded Myth Merchant Films in 1997 to create and produce science, history and social documentaries for television and film.

Background

* Maker of ''Lost Nuke'', a 2004 documentary about the U.S.'s first lost nuclear weapon * Supervising producer for ''Mars Rising'', a TV series on the

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* Producer, writer, and director of ''Secrets of the Dinosaur Mummy'' for Discovery Channel Networks International * Producer, writer, and director of ''Hunt for the Mad Trapper'' for the

* Producer, writer, and director of the TV special ''Hitler's Stealth Fighter'' (2009), about the

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for

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* Maker of the 2013 feature documentary film ''

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References

External links

Myth Merchant Films
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