Biography

A relentless innovator, Mikkelborg has been creatively directing critically-acclaimed immersive entertainment since 2015. Currently, Mikkelborg is Series Directing live action series Adventure (Apple TV+ Originals for Apple Vision Pro). Previous films/experiences include interactive live action (ESCAPE TO SHANGHAI, Official Selection SXSW 2024, VIOLATING PEACE (starring Vincent Vermignon), projection and interactive dome experiences (THE JOURNEY, Cine Golden Eagle Award 2018), to the world's first multi-sensory augmented reality game (TIME DETECTIVES, SXSW Innovation Award 2023) to real time rendered content (FLY, created with Neil Corbould's Oscar winning special effects team (Gladiator, Gravity) and starring Joanna Froggatt (Downton Abbey)). FLY had a sell out run in London's Saatchi Gallery and was WINNER of the Lumieres Award Best VR Entertainment, WINNER Best Documentary Experience 2020 at Raindance Film Festival and WINNER Best Immersive experience 2020 as voted by the UK Government. Lauded by Vice as one of the “female filmmakers revolutionising how we see the world”. Charlotte first gained recognition as a BBC foreign correspondent but has more recently become known for her work directing and producing critically acclaimed film and immersive experiences. Charlotte has created immersive projects for leading entertainment, commercial and social impact clients including Apple, the BBC, the United Nations, British Airways and Twitter/X. Charlotte is chair of Oxford University Media Committee and a film mentor at SXSW, University College London's Immersive Media MA and previously the Youtube Creator's Lab.
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Credits

Adventure 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 2   Director 2023
Building 173 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
-   Director 2020

Other Credits

Violating Peace (starring Vincent Vermignon (The Staircase 2022)) Interactive 360 VR Short View
Description Year
A young soldier is torn between military loyalty and his own moral code in this fictional, interactive narrative based on powerful real life testimonials. Assigned to his first UN mission in a wartorn, West African country, young soldier David, realises that his roommate Jean-Baptiste 'JB' is not what he appears to be. As JB's self-destructive behaviour threatens the life of a local girl, David must choose between loyalty to his comrade and what he knows is right. 2022
Fly (starring Joanne Froggatt) Interactive VR Short View
Description Year
Fly allows you to become a time-travelling pilot—from the earliest imaginings of Leonardo Da Vinci and his ornithopter, to the Wright Brothers’ success on Kitty Hawk Beach and, ultimately, into one potential future of flight. Sell out run at Saatchi Gallery. Premiered at Tribeca and Cannes 2020. WINNER Lumieres Award Best VR Entertainment, WINNER Best Documentary Experience Raindance Film Festival, WINNER Best UK Immersive Experience as voted by UK government 2019
The Journey 360 film View
Description Year
360 documentary experience 'The Journey' traces the journey through childhood in 3 of the toughest environments on Earth. Meet 3-year-old Amina in the distant 'Afar' region of Ethiopia, trying to find enough food and water to survive during the worst drought in 30 years; 10-year-old Changkouth, living in conflict-ridden South Sudan, trying to get an education and avoid being recruited as a child soldier, in the country with the highest proportion of out-of-school children in the world; and 18-year-old Mani in Chad - ostracized by her community because she is living with HIV, but determined to change minds and using social media to rally support. Premiered SXSW 2018. WINNER 61st Cine Golden Eagle - Best VR Short 2018
Born into Exile 360 film View
Description Year
Our VR film ‘Born into Exile’ tells the harrowing yet hopeful story of two pregnant Syrian refugee women in the week leading up to the births of their babies. FINALIST 60th Cine Golden Eagle Best VR Short 2016

Non-Directorial Credits

Made in China (guest starring Matthew McConaughey) View
Description
A confident young man with a unique style and a solid entrepreneurial spirit has made it his mission to bring the small pleasures in life to a global market. As an aspiring inventor inspired by history's most infamous jokesters, he's determined to jump through all the hoops in order to realize his dreams. When he's not taken seriously amongst the locals stateside, he takes it upon himself to travel to Shanghai and broker a manufacturing deal on his own. Lost in Shanghai, Johnson discovers that it takes more than a bright idea to succeed. It takes guts, determination, and a fist full of sneezing powder.
The Human Spider View
Description
A look at Alain Robert, dubbed the Human Spider, who scales some of the world's tallest buildings without the aid of ropes or safety equipment, despite suffering with epilepsy.
The Light in the Shadow (starring Cerys Matthews) View
Description
Follows Artemisia Gentileschi's world, an internationally celebrated artist and a woman in 17th Century Italy. WINNER Best Immersive Storytelling SXSW 2022
What's the Point? (starring Speech Debelle) View
Description
This first episode to an animated VR and 360 series focuses on Georges Seurat and his iconic painting "La Grande Jatte" - it dives into the story behind the painting, uncovering the artist's journey from underdog to icon.

Awards

  • VR Awards

    Finalist Best VR Experience - 2020

  • Broadcaster Tech Awards

    Nominee Most Innovative Use of VR/AR - 2020

  • Lumieres Awards

    Best VR Entertainment - 2020

  • Raindance Film Festival

    Best VR Documentary Experience - 2020

  • 61st Cine Golden Eagle

    Best VR Short - 2018

  • 60th Cine Golden Eagle

    Finalist Best VR Short - 2017

  • SXSW Film Festival

    Grand Jury Prize SXSW - 2009

Skills

  • Interactive
  • SFX
  • 3D
  • CGI
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