Director and producer Mette-Ann Schepelern

Mette-Ann is the founder of Magma Land, she has a master in Film and media studies from the University of Copenhagen in 1995, and is educated Documentary Filmdirector (1997) from the acclaimed National Film School of Denmark with two award-winning graduation films, "Exclusion" and "Fathers as Trees". Subsequently she worked as headteacher at the Documentary department for five years at National Filmschool educating such directors as Simon Lereng Wilmont, Lea Glob, Mira Jargil, Andreas Koefoed, Sun He Engelstoft and other upcoming talents.

Mette-Ann has since completed additional training in leadership at Cph. Business Academy, and has directed and produced a large number of films and television series. At the same time, she has worked with teaching courses and media training by professionals, also during international events for instance in the Middle East with pan-Arabic projects, and at workshops in Burma, Nepal and Egypt. She is associated with film festivals internationally as a jury member and chairman, among others in Katmandu and Aswan. She has produced corporate films for e.g. Novo Nordisk about animal ethics as well as a series about stress and working environment, and she has been associated with the Royal Danish Theatre filming dozens of performaces.

In 2018, she had cinema premiere with "Queen of Hearts / Hjerter Dame" about the first danish female president of the trade union confederation. In 2017, she produced an animated documentary series for young people "LoveSex - stories about love and sex", which consists of six short films with accompanying teaching material. The films are based on communication and dissemination through sensation, and a recognition that learning is also created through emotions, play and experience.

Among other well-known titles are her international film 'Suburbia 110% / 110% Greve'' about three youngsters in a rundown and poor suburb to Copenhagen, 'My America / Mit USA' about exchange in America, and 'Isabella for Real' about a mother-daughter relationship. In 2015, she was appointed by the Ministry of Culture as vice-chairman of the Council for Short and Documentary Films at the Danish Film Institute, and selected by the Minister of Culture as a member of the Danish Art Fund's representative board.