Bosse Lindquist

Bosse Lindquist, born in 1954, is a Swedish radio and TV producer and writer. Directing of investigative documentaries at Swedish Television’s Documentary department since 2012. Past Ander Visiting Professor of Global Media studies at Karlstad University and former head of the national radio broadcaster Swedish Radio’s Documentary Deptartment. Has won numerous awards.

Documentaries and books have penetrated as diverse subjects as modern genetics and prenatal diagnostics, extreme and secret Swedish maoist groups, Swedish support of the Pol Pot regime, adoption from South Korea to Sweden.
Eg, in 2009, Lindquist’s film about Nobel laureate Carleton Gajdusek, who discovered the Kuru disease among a cannibal tribe in New Guinea and who also was a self-proclaimed pedophile, premiered on BBC Storyville.
2010, the documentary McCheat & Co revealed systematic practicing of hour-shaving off McDonald’s employees meagre salaries in Sweden and the United States.
The documentary, WikiRebels traced WikiLeaks unprecedented road to achievement, fame and notoriety, interviewing Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg among others,. The films has been shown in 30 countries worldwide and has spread widely on the internet.

Lindquist’s documentary, Give Us the Money was part of the Why Poverty series of documentaries, broadcasted worldwide by BBC, SVT, Arte, PBS and more than 70 other countries November, 2012. The film traces rock musicians Bono and Bob Geldof’s decade long lobbying and advocacy against extreme poverty in Africa.

Most recently, Lindquist’s Double Bookkeeping - on financial and auditing mispractices and illegalities at global forestry giant Stora Enso - was broadcast in Sweden and Finland 2013.

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