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Myth Merchant Films was founded by Michael Jorgensen in 1997. In 2005 when the company merged with Carrie Gour of Punctum pictures, Myth Merchant Films became an equally owned and operated partnership. With Michael and Carrie’s passion for character-driven storytelling, Myth Merchant’s focus is on creating and producing the highest quality science, history and lifestyle documentaries, drama series and movies for both television and film.
In 2003, Myth Merchant Films’ first production out of the gate, Battle of the X-Planes, was recognized with an Emmy Award for best feature length documentary. Produced for the PBS science and technology program NOVA, Battle of the X-Planes examines the high-stakes battle waged between the world’s two largest aero-space companies, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to win the largest military contract in history and build the most versatile fighter plane ever created – the Joint Strike Fighter. The program not only earned the distinction of being the highest rated show in NOVA’s thirty year history, but also marked the first (and so far only) time in history that the United States Department of Defense allowed a filmmaker inside a major defense competition. Michael’s work on X-Planes earned him national and international awards for directing, writing and cinematography.
In 2004 Myth Merchant Films produced the one hour HDTV documentary Lost Nuke for the Discovery Channel. Lost Nuke tells the previously untold story of America's first lost nuclear weapon - one that went missing during a top-secret mission off the west coast of Canada during the Cold War. Lost Nuke has been recognized with provincial and national awards for producing, directing and cinematography.
Production will begin on Myth Merchant’s latest project, a one hour documentary special for National Geographic US and History Television in September 2008 titled Hitler’s Stealth Fighter.
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