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Documentaries

At the heart of Project Moken there is a feature length documentary

The tree campaign

One Tree can save the Moken culture! Click here to find out how and be part of it!

The Moken App

Be a free-diver! Hold your breath along with a Moken – renowned for their natural free-diving skills.

Hold your breath

Experience the underwater realm of the Moken.

The Ocean as a place

For the Moken, the ocean is a place not a barrier.

Kabang – Nordic Origins Expedition

Documentaries

They were so proud that a movie about them (as Indigenous Peoples) becomes a centerpiece for cultural discussions. Not only did the film ably represent their plight with the many restrictions to their freedom in their own ancestral domains, it also gave them a feeling of hope that their voices could now be heard by like-minded empathizers and advocates for their continuous enjoyment of nature’s bounty.

Marilyn L. Ngales

Director, Community Outreach and Service Learning (COSeL)

No word for worry” is a beautiful film. A real gem that takes you an amazing journey, raising awareness, asking questions but at all times allowing the integrity of Hook to shine through. With breath taking photography, it’s a voyage we should all take. A must see.

Luke Cresswell

Director and Writer of “Great White Shark” & “Wild Ocean

This Golden Chair Award for Best Norwegian Documentary goes to a big film, both in expression and content. It proves the power of documentaries to make a difference. This is a universal story about the small guy against the great powers. The film is beautifully shot and has a filmic expression in which scenes are allowed to live and the shots are allowed to last for a long time. The director lets us stay in the situations, and does not fall to the temptation of becoming obvious. The filmmaker lets us breathe, even underwater.

Kortfilmfestivalen 2014

“No Word for Worry” is an aesthetic and thematic shock that anyone with a conscience for nature, culture and the environment must see.

Eurodok 2014

No Word for Worry” is a gentle and generous introduction to the Moken world which is as precious as it is fragile. Hook is the best representative any culture could have, a man of quiet dignity and resolve. The film is also remarkably visual – just amazing images and colors. More than any other Norwegian film in recent years, this film is important and needs to be seen around the world.

Peter Eisenstein

Scriptwriter

Director

Runar Jarle Wiik

An award-winning Norwegian film director and cinematographer (DOP). Runar has exclusive access to the Moken community in the Mergui and has been developing the documentary “No Word for Worry” as part of Project Moken since 2007.

Producer

Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas

Award-winning Producer, interactive producer, and editor of independent documentary films. Her company Ten Thousand Images AS is based in Norway, and continues to prouduce high quality independent documentary films, with a special focus on ocean-related initiatives.

Producer

Christian Lien Jensen

Award-winning Producer, interactive producer, and founder of Hallum & Jensen A/S. Christian has been working with Project Moken since 2010. Today he produces for Vinland – Good Stories AS.

Underwater photographer

Henrik Konradsdal

A positive person who loves his job; working as an underwater photographer on a Andaman Ocean Safaris day trip boat in Phuket Thailand. Henrik came to Thailand nine years ago to become a Scuba instructor and decided to stay. Now he is married with a 4 year old daughter. Henrik joined the Project Moken team on the 2011 expedition as an underwater photographer.

Outreach Producer

Terje Lind Bjørsvik

Producer, writer and project manager at Ten Thousand Images AS, having worked in the film industry since 1994. He joined the Project Moken team in 2015 to develop and manage our new initiatives.

Stills-photographer

Sofie Olsen

Sofie graduated in 2011 from a one-year program at the International Center of Photography, New York City, attending the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program. In 2009 she went on the first expedition with the Project Moken team to the Surin Islands in Thailand. Since then, she has revisited in 2011 and 2012. In 2012 Sofie won the London Festival of Photography Prize with her photo-film “I Am Light”, featuring an artist living in an alternative encampment in Norway together with Roma Gypsies.