Johan Malcolm Dixelius is a Swedish journalist, documentary filmmaker and Russia expert. In 1972, Dixelius started his career in journalism as a reporter on the local public serviceTV station in Gothenburg and later in Sundsvall. He is best known as a Moscow correspondent for Swedish public radio and television in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He also worked for TV4 in the 1990s and for Viasat during the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. After twenty years in public radio and TV, Dixelius switched to documentary filmmaking in 1993, founding his own production company, Dixit International. He has received awards and acclaim for several films, including Russian Mafia, CCCP Hockey and A Bitter Taste of Freedom. 1999-2001 he produced a trailblazing international affairs series for TV4 called pangea.nu. From 2003 Dixelius is involved with Deep Sea Productions, where he has produced the series Wreck Hunters as well as directing and producing a number of documentary films for the international market. Together with Russian journalist and writer Andrei Konstantinov, Dixelius has written two books on organized crime in Russia. Since 2015, he is the chairman of the Malik Bendjelloul Memorial Foundation, which runs a fund in support of documentary filmmakers.
Education
Gothenburg Institute of Journalism, 1970-72 journalism Uppsala University, 1969-70 Russian, English Army Interpreter School, 1968-69 Russian University of Georgia, 1966-67 journalism Atlantic College, 1963-65 A-levels
Taikon, executive producer Mars the Magnificent, producer Crossroads, producer The Land that is No More, executive producer Return of the Ghost Ship, director A Bitter Taste of Freedom, producer Women with Cows, script, executive producer The Cuban colonel, the Russian General and the Destruction of the World, director, producer Route of Death, producer The Mystery of the Lost Spy Plane, director Being Anja Pärson, executive producer Königsegg, director Profession: High Jumper, director The Horseman, executive producer The Virus Hunter, director The Laser Man Documentary, director, producer Homeward Bound, producer Mr IKEA, the Man Who Wanted to Furnish the World, director, producer CCCP Hockey, director Girls in Jeopardy, producer The Prince, producer Conquering the Arctic, director North East Passage, director, producer Russian Mafia, director, producer
Books
Russia’s Underworld, Malcolm Dixelius and Andrej Konstantinov, Stockholm 1994 Mafialand Russia, Malcolm Dixelius and Andrej Konstantinov, Stockholm 1997
