About Us | tenthousandimages

Ten Thousand Images AS is an independent documentary production company established in 2014.

Since then we have produced and co-produced over 12 Feature Length Documentaries in addition to several short docs. Our films have won several national and international awards, and include the award-winning documentary NO WORD FOR WORRY (2014) and NOWHERE TO HIDE (2016) which is critically acclaimed, screened at over 100 festivals worldwide, won over 20 international awards including the first prize at IDFA and the Amanda Award for Best Documentary, and was nominated for 2 Emmy-Awards. Our film HIDDEN LETTERS (2022) had its world premiere at Tribeca, won Best Documentary at Bergen IFF, and was shortlisted for The Academy Award (2023). As minority Co-Producer we have worked on films such as LIFE OF IVANNA (2021) and the Berlinale Winner MYANMAR DIARIES (2022)

Ten Thousand Images is located on the beautiful peninsula Nesodden, a 20-minute ferry-ride from downtown Oslo, Norway. The name, however, has been in use for over 20 years as Mette’s editing business.

It comes from the chinese 万像 (10000 Images) – one of several translations for just that – editing.

We work mainly with international documentary films, but we are also developing short and long-form fiction. We work locally as well as globally, and we make commissioned films on themes that we can relate to, in order to build a stabile economy within the company. We have a special place for any audio-visual work related to marine conservation, and have a close collaboration with Project Moken.

All in all – we are a multifaceted company where our main objective is to work with our passion to make a difference. We like to think of our name in a larger context based on the old idiom 森羅万象 – making change as part of all things in the universe.

Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas

CEO / Producer / Editor
Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning CEO, producer, and editor of feature documentaries. With over 20 years of experience in the field, she founded her own production company, Ten Thousand Images AS (TTI) in 2014. Through TTI, she has produced & co-produced over 10 Feature Length Documentaries in addition to several short docs. Her previous films as producer include the award-winning NO WORD FOR WORRY (2014), IDFA-Winner NOWHERE TO HIDE (2016) and the Oscar-shortlisted HIDDEN LETTERS (2022). As minority Co-Producer she has worked on films such as Award-winning LIFE OF IVANNA (2021) and the Berlinale Winner MYANMAR DIARIES (2022).

Johanna Dorothea Raita

Junior Producer / Editor
Johanna Dorothea Raita is employed by Ten Thousand Images as Junior Producer, Impact Producer and Editor. She has studied theater and is holds a bachelor's degree in documentary editing from Westerdals Institute for Film & Media. Earlier experience includes being manager and owner of Gallery «Kuben», set designer, editor, project manager, music video director and director of theater productions.

Associated Professionals

Runar Jarle Stray Wiik

Director / (UW-) Cinematograper
30+ years as a freelance screenwriter, director, Cinematographer / Underwater Cinematographer and editor in documentaries, feature films, short and commercial films, as well as commissioned films for aid organizations around the world, after graduating from The London International Film School.

Zaradasht Ahmed

Director / Photographer

Zaradasht Ahmed is an award-winning, 2-time Emmy nominated Kurdish/Norwegian Filmmaker. He was born and raised in Northern Iraq. His previous work includes the award-winning “Road to Diyarbakir” and “Fata Morgana”. His latest film “Nowhere to Hide” is critically acclaimed and in addition to being nominated for 2 Emmy-Awards has won several prestigious international prizes including Best Feature Length Documentary at IDFA (2016), Best Documentary at the One World Human Rights Festival (2017), the Audience Award at Thessaloniki Film Festival (2017), the Nestor Almendros Prize for courage in filmmaking at the Human Rights Watch FF (New York 2017), the Citizen Journalists prize from Traverse City FF (2017), and the Norwegian AMANDA for Best
Documentary (2017). Zaradasht has many years of experience working with documentary filmmaking in the Middle East, North-Africa, and Asian regions, as well as experience training locals in documentation.

Ellen-Astri Lundby

Director

Ellen-Astri Lundby made her directorial debut with the humorous short film “To tette og en badehette” (1989), and with that she won the award for best short film at the Norwegian Short Film Festival. Born in Oslo, she discovered as an adult that her mother was of Sami descent. In the documentary “Suddenly Sami“ (2009) she describes the experience of becoming a Sami in adulthood, and follows the trail of oppression in Norwegian culture. “Yoik-fever” (2014) is about her daughter Ylva from Oslo, who wants to learn to Yoik. In “Burning Memories” (2019) we meet six elderly witnesses who became refugees in their own country in 1944, and join them for emotional encounters with multicultural children and refugee-children living in the far north of Norway today. Ellen has a master's degree from the University of Bergen with the subjects theater science, art history and visual communication, and has established the company Ellen Lundby Film & Media in Alta.

Inge-Lise Langfeldt

Film Editor

Inge-Lise Langfeldt has worked for almost 40 years in the film industry - as writer, director, photographer, sound and editing among other things.
She has edited almost 100 films in total, and is among Norway's most experienced editors. She received the Amanda Committee's Golden Clapper for her work in 2017.
As an editor over the years, Inge-Lise has contributed to several nominations and award winners at festivals at home and abroad.