Born and raised in St. Louis, Jørgen Pedersen has always had a love of film. After co-creating the video news network at his high school, Jørgen started making student movies of all shapes and sizes, writing & directing numerous features and shorts. Jørgen's first official narrative feature was Waking Up (2010), an independent sci-fi romance, shown at the Gig Harbor Film Festival in 2010. Jørgen went on to direct & write the musically infused feature Cook & Banks (2015), which was accepted in 2015 to the St. Louis International Film Festival. Taste: hors d'oeuvre (2017) won 2018's 'Best Short, Comedy' at the Seal Beach Film Festival. Jørgen is always searching different creative avenues and is working on several projects in various stages of development/production.