- Student at European Film College 1997-1998.
- He won an Oscar when he was 29, and debuted with his first feature film at 30. The Oscar was a Best Foreign Student Academy Award for his short film "Mellem Os", and his first feature film was called "Ambulance".
- Member of jury at the Uppsala International Film Festival in 2005
- His film "Mellem Os" (2003) was the most award-winning graduation film from The National Film School of Denmark ever, with its 13 international awards, including an Oscar - a Student Academy Award - for Best Foreign Film.
- Student at The National Film School of Denmark, directing programme 1999-2003
- Laurits is the son of the internationally acclaimed Danish designer Ursula Munch-Petersen and Danish painter Erik Hagens, and grandson of legendary Danish painter and poet Gustaf Munch-Petersen who was shot only 26 years old in the Spanish Civil War in 1938.
- In 2022 Laurits' feature film "Ambulance" was remade by Hollywood director Michael Bay ("Armageddon", "Pearl Harbour", "Transformers") starring Jake Gyllenhaal ("Brokeback Mountain", "Nightcrawler", "Nocturnal Animals").
- Laurits has 3 daughters; Iris Munch-Petersen (born 2009) Lucia Munch-Petersen (born 2013) and Mila Munch-Petersen (born 2018). Iris and Lucia appear in his film "Shadow of a Hero" (2015) and his children's TV series "On the Road with Dad" (2018), which became the most viewed TV series on DR Ramasjang in 2018.
- Laurits is working on his new TV-series "Crasher" which is freely based on Søren Kierkegaard "Seducers Diary", this series is planned to premiere in 2024.
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