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Freelance Producers/Directors
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Pawel Achtel
Achtel
913 Coles Bay Road
Coles Bay
TAS 7215
Australia
Phone: +61 (0)407 472 747
Email: pawel.achtel@24x7.com.au
Website: www.achtel.com & www.4k.com.au
 
  
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Cinematography services, underwater and time lapse footage and equipment for above and underwater productions.
We specialise in 4k acquisition with high production values.
We do a lot of underwater filming in 3D.
We offer unique underwater housings and content that resolves true 4k and beyond from corner to corner using proprietary and innovative solutions. |
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Dr Giles Barkley
Leeds
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7926 412 551
email: giles_barkley@yahoo.co.uk
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Giles is an independent wildlife filmmaker.
His 20 minute film, 'S Wonderful (2012), tells the story of a Mute Swan family as the swans court on the canal, build their nest, lay their eggs, incubate and hatch them, and follows the cygnets as they take to the water, come and go from the nest, and finally leave for the big wide world of the canal and beyond.
Giles previously made two short films. Once More unto the Breach (2010), about bottlenose dolphins in the Moray Firth, and Sealed with a Kiss (2009), about the relationship between a grey seal mother and pup. He provided documentary footage of brown bears (filmed in Romania) for a short drama film, Bare Necessities (2007).
He has a PhD in biology from Leeds University (2001). |
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Gaby Bastyra
2, 147 Queens Drive
London N4 2BB
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7941 387 314
email: gabybastyra@gmail.com
Website:
www.bee-productions.co.uk |
Gaby is an accomplished producer, director and AP specialising in wildlife documentaries.
She won Best Newcomer at Wildscreen 2008 and was nominated at Jackson Hole 2009 in the same category for her film The White Wood.
Her film Gloop has been nominated and won three awards in the Best Short categories... See www.bee-productions.co.uk for more. Gaby has been working on BBC Natural Worlds for the past two years at Passion Pictures, amongst other freelance work. |
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Caroline Brett
Shake the Tree Productions
Hall Farm House
Suffield
Norfolk
NR11 7EW
UK
Phone: +44 (0)1263 768203
Email: carolinebrett@mac.com
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Caroline graduated from Bristol University with a BSc Hons in Zoology, then worked for the prestigious Survival series as well as Anglia's Predators with Gaby Roslin, Wild about Essex with Tony Robinson‚ and Animals In Action.
Now as a director of Shake the Tree Productions, she has written, produced and directed films on black caiman in Brazil, street children in India and the history of the pearl trade in Bahrain.
Her stills are housed at the Specialist Stock Library, she has written seven books on wildlife and numerous articles. Recently while working for the Save Our Seas, the Foundation won two 'Rockies' at Jackson Hole and two 'Pandas' at Wildscreen.
Caroline is also a Wildeye Tutor. |
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Richard Brock
Dumpers Cottage
Dumpers Lane
Chew Magna
Bristol BS40 8SS
UK
Phone: +44 (0)1275 333187
Fax: +44 (0)1761 221702
Email:
richard@brockinitiative.org
Website: www.brockinitiative.org
| Richard Brock worked in the BBC Natural History Unit for 35 years producing, among others, the highly successful Life on Earth and Living Planet series with David Attenborough. Concerned by the lack of willingness to address the real current state of the environment he left the BBC and started his own independent production company Living Planet Productions.Living Planet Productions has made over 100 films on a wide range of environmental topics, shown all over the world. As his archive of films and footage mounted up, Richard felt that there was something more, better, that could be done with this resource, so he set up the Brock Initiative.
"I try to get stuff out there that will make a difference. There are now more ways of doing that than ever before. It can be in any format, anywhere, anyhow. I will provide free footage on wildlife and environmental matters from around the world. I am always interested in issues where "Filming with Attitude" might help the planet. Just let me know." |
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Adrian Cale
London, England (UK)
Phone:+44 (0)7789 205211
email: ade.cale@gmail.com
Website:www.adriancale.co.uk |
Adrian is an ‘award winning’ independent wildlife film maker: a self-shooting Producer / Director, Writer and Presenter. Described by BBC Wildlife Magazine as someone who “takes multi-tasking to new levels” Adrian is always willing to roll up his sleeves and get stuck in. He has been known to set off with just a camera and a whim and come back with all the material for a solid and creative documentary. As he says “The eternal wait for a commissioner to say yes or for budgets to fall into place can compromise the story and the story won’t always wait.”
Recent credits include an episode of Panorama for BBC1, investigating the devastating effect of the palm oil industry on the environment and particularly the orangutan, and the much repeated series Gibbons: Back in the Swing for Animal Planet International.
Adrian is also a Wildeye Tutor. |
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Alice Clarke
O5 Princess Beach
Cape Town
7806
South Africa
Phone: +27 (0)729 642281
Email: adc.super.t@gmail.com
Website: www.nhuafrica.com
| Alice is an accomplished self-shooting Producer/Director/Editor/Scriptwriter.
Credits include The Cheetah Diaries - series 1,2 & 3, The Search for the Knysna Elephants (Animal Planet), Wild Walk, Camp Raiders, Paseka the Easter Elephant (Afriscreen films), Kids' Guide to the Kalahari |
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Jamie Crawford
110 Kempe Road
London
NW6 6SL
United Kingdom
Email: info@jamiecrawfordmedia.com
Website: www.jamiecrawfordmedia.com
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Jamie works across all aspects of television as a regular on-camera face for the BBC and as a shooting PD and script writer behind the camera.
Presenting credits include wildlife and adventure shows for Five, Discovery and Animal Planet. For the past four years Jamie has presented photography and adventure stories for the BBC's One Show.
Production work includes writing, producing and directing for the BBC, ITV, Five, National Geographic, Discovery and Animal Planet.
Currently writing the final episode for the History channel's Mankind: the story of all of us |
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Dave Culley
Sparrowhawk Island
1 Hunts Lock
Bungalow
Northwich
Cheshire
CW9 8AG
United Kingdom
Phone:
+44 (0)1606 42600 Email: sparrowhawkisland@hotmail.com Website:
www.sparrowhawk-island.co.uk |
Self taught wildlife cameraman filming the secret lives of sparrowhawks and all the wildlife which surrounds them.
And studying and filming 19 species of songbird that choose to nest right next to it.
A film I was told virtually impossible to do. 10 years in the making a world first to capture on film there whole breeding season from November to August. All my footage is of wild birds.
I like a challenge. I'm just starting to edit a film of the whole lives of Tawny owls throughout the year, also a first.
Then, hopefully next season, a film on the goshawks lives throughout the year. Just in talks about a nest site at moment for filming. |
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Neil Grubb
Roslin Nature
Beechlea, Roslin Glen
Roslin
Midlothian EH25 9PX
United Kingdom
Phone:
+44 (0)131 440 1025
Email: neil.grubb@btinternet.com
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Roslin Nature is a single-handed non-profit project in which wildlife documentaries are produced for presentation to local and national environmental clubs and societies. Northern Frontier chronicled the colonisation of the Lothians by the nuthatch. Fantasia is a short film about a pair of peregrines in Midlothian. Oasis is the most ambitious project so far completed, a documentary about bird life in the Esk Valley near Edinburgh. Each documentary has taken two years to complete.
The working title of the current project is 'Nature's Cauldron', which explores the birdlife and other wildlife of upland habitat and conifer woods in the Lothians and Borders regions. This film will be complete by end 2012. The project for 2013 is a documentary comparing woodland habitats in Scotland and Massachusetts, in collaboration with Massachusetts Audubon Society. |
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Mick Jenner
M&PP(Wildlife)Videos
Highdown
Dappers Lane
Angmering
Littlehampton
West Sussex BN16 4EN
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1903 771912
Mobile: +44 (0)7906 357 860
Email: michael.jenner1@virgin.net
Website: www.mppvideos.co.uk
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Wildlife Film Specialists
West Sussex based husband and wife wildlife film makers Mick and Pat Jenner specialise in wildlife filming, projects and productions.
We have an extensive library of stock footage from both in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world including Africa, India, Australia, Sri Lanka, Borneo, Bali, Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico, Tobago, Dominican Republic and Mauritius.
Please feel free to contact us for full library details and any further information you require.
Equipment & Services
From project conception to project completion, we have the tools, contacts and knowledge to provide you with the whole package.
JVC GY-HM700 High Definition Camera
Telephoto Lenses
Sennheiser Shotgun Mic - ME66
Miller Tripod - 100mm half bowl
Full High Definition Editing with Canopus Edius
Full Blu-ray & DVD Authoring & Production Services
Formats include DV, DVCAM, HDV & Full HD
Hides
POV Camera
Camera Trap
Nikon D500 + various lenses.
Clients
We have produced wildlife and travel DVD's for The Travel Collection, Gamewatchers Safaris, promotional filming for Jakarna Wildlife Trust and the Press Association. |
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Jin Pyn Lee
Elemantree Media
1/34 Dunne Street
Kingsbury
Victoria 3083
Australia
Phone: +61 423 66 2233
Email: jinpyn@elephantandtree.com |
Freelance television producer, director, writer, fixer, production management.
Specialize in Asian natural history and conservation (over twenty years involvement).
Jin Pyn's career spans across broadcaster and independent production companies. Credits include BBC Worldwide, Channel News Asia, and Animal Planet, across all genres: short-form interstitials, long-form factual documentaries, and animation. Geographically the programs have been distributed all over the globe, including Korea's Kids Talk Talk, US's Somos TV and India's Edumedia. In Japan, Jin Pyn has won the best animation award, and her children's picture book was the first from Singapore to garner multiple languages. |
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Tony Lee
Sabana Films
Melbourne House
2
2 Park Street Avenue
Bristol
BS15JU
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7814 720 133
Email: tony@sabanafilms.com
Website: www.tonyleemoral.com & www.sabanafilms.com
 
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Tony Lee is a Series Producer of science and wildlife programmes with 20 years experience.
Having worked for the BBC NHU and Science departments, as well as extensive experience in America for National Geographic, Discovery and Animal Planet, he has a thorough understanding of the international market for wildlife programmes.
Credits include The Ancient Life, Man vs Wild, Wild Britain with Ray Mears, Time Team, Last Man Standing, Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza, Wild Thing I Love You, The Animal Zone, Monsters Inside Me, Bodysnatchers, Giant Monsters and The Shape of Life. |
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Mike Linley
Hairy Frog Productions Ltd
4 The Paddock
White Horse Lane
Trowse
Norwich
Norfolk NR14 8TD
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7885 964790
Email: mike@hairy-frog.co.uk
Website: www.hairy-frog.co.uk |
Mike is an highly experienced producer, director and cameraman with full HD kit (BBC specs) + GoPro hero in flat optic housing + video-microscope and endoscopes + Canon 7D time-lapse kit.
Over 400 credits mainly as a Producer for Survival/Anglia Television.
Now also producing Wildlife Interactive Touch-screens.
Over forty International awards to date.
Specialist in herpetology, entomology and UK wildlife.
Large video, sound and stills library. |
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LB Loxley
Westcountry Wildlife
62 Russet Close
Wellington
Somerset TA21 9BJ
UK
Phone: +44 (0)1823 666555
Email: lbloxley@hotmail.com
Website: www.westcountrywildlife.com
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Westcountry Wildlife is a small promotional outfit working in the Somerset & Devon area.
We currently produce small promotional videos for the Somerset Wildlife Trust.
If your looking for a local presenter then look no further.
LB Loxleys presenting style has been praised by Steven Moss (former BBC producer).
For your small scale promotions, website clips etc, give us a call.
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Douglas Lyon
Excelman Productions
67, rue Traversiere
Paris 75012
France
Phone: +33 6 0742 7838
Email: excelman.productions
@numericable.fr
Website: ww.excelman.com
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Douglas Lyon: Line Producer, Field Producer and founder of Excelman Productions.
We are Producers, Production Managers, Line Producers, Field Producers, Journalists and Directors!
We have 20 years of experience in more than 50 different countries, with an incredible network of contacts, and reliable veteran staff in each country!
We have come to be known as "Africa specialists", but actually we began with Fashion and News, then Variety shows and Reality Shows, and although we love it all, but we must confess a particular passion for Broadcast News, Documentaries, and... well, you guessed it: Africa!
The primary vocation of Excelman Productions ranges from the complete production to simply the logistic management and co-ordination, of a wide spectrum of primarily audio-visual projects in video or film: hard news, documentaries, live satellite broadcasts, variety shows, reality shows, sports events, TV films, commercials, etc. In just a few years, after many prestigious shoots all over France, Europe and two dozen African nations (a total of more than 50 different countries), EXCELMAN Productions has become a privileged partner of all of the major Japanese television networks and production companies as well as the most prominent advertising agencies.
Need a crew to tell your story? A Producer? Director? A Journalist? Contact Us! We work extensively throughout Europe and Africa and we would be delighted to suggest cost effective solutions in order to achieve results above and beyond your hopes and expectations!
As concerns the wildlife film genre, strangely we have not done any! It is a mystery, but given our extensive experience in Africa, it would be very easy for us to handle the logistics of such projects, which is why I thought that Wildlife-Film.com
might be good for us... We have, of course, for many of our Africa projects, tracked and filmed wild animals, and have a good idea of the difficulties involved... but we have never worked on a project dedicated strictly to the “Wildlife” theme... Yet! |
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Arthur Machado
Av. Brig. Luis Antonio 2759 ap.31
Sao Paulo
SP
01401-000
Brazil
Phone: +55 11 83132953
Email: arthur.machado@gmail.com
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Arthur is an editor, producer and enthusiastic cinematographer who is willing to work in any way related to wildlife.
He is currently an advertising producer in Brazil. |
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Alan Miller
Shake the Tree Productions
Hall Farm House
Suffield
Norfolk
NR11 7EW
UK
Phone: +44 (0)1263 768203
Email: alanmiller@mac.com |
Alan has been editing wildlife documentaries for twenty five years. BBC trained, Alan started editing wildlife programmes at Partridge Films and worked on many of their Wildscreen Panda award winners.
He has worked for many companies, including Granada, BBC, NHK Japan and Nature Conservation Films for whom he wrote, directed and edited a wildlife feature film and edited two other wildlife feature films. He has also written and directed many documentaries but remains passionately interested in editing.
He is experienced in both Avid and Final Cut Pro systems. Alan is a recent Wildscreen Panda award-winner and his recently completed independent feature film won best of category in 2012's London Independent Film Festival.
Alan is also a Wildeye Tutor. |
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Tom Mustill
66B Highgate West Hill
London N6 6BU
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7949 477995
Email: tom.mustill@gmail.com
Website: www.neonotter.com |
A director with a background in natural history and conservation biology, Tom is passionate about using film to tell stories about science and wildlife.
He's made films for the BBC, C4, C5, Nat Geo, Discovery and PBS and has won BAFTA, Broadcast, RTS, SCINEMA, ZSL and New York Film International awards.
His most recent work was PDing the special episodes of 'Inside Nature's Giants' for C4 and PBS, and he is currently shooting a Natural World for BBC2. |
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Chris O'Brien
RiggraamHD Productions Inc.
770-4A Walker Sq
Charlottesville
VA
22903
USA
Phone: +1 804 833 7224
Email: chris@riggraam.com Websites: www.riggraam.com & www.exploreyourfuture.org
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Chris is an experienced nature & science producer/director of photography with a professional and educational background in ecology and film.
Chris is a qualified Herpetologist.
He began his wildlife filming career about 15-years ago, and while at Karst Productions was a pioneer in the use of high definition wildlife camera work.
He now combines his wide-range of experiences to produce factual wildlife programs in an understandable and engaging way. |
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Chris Palmer
Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking
School of Communication
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington
DC 20016-8017
USA
Phone: +1 202 885 3408
Email: palmer@american.edu
Website: www.environmentalfilm.org
Blog: Wild Life
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Chris Palmer is a professor, speaker, author, and environmental and wildlife film producer.
He has swum with dolphins and whales, come face-to-face with sharks and Kodiak bears, camped with wolf packs, and waded hip-deep through Everglade swamps.
Over the past thirty years, he has spearheaded the production of more than 300 hours of original programming for prime-time television and the IMAX film industry, work that won him and his colleagues many awards, including two Emmys and an Oscar nomination. And from this treasure trove of experience came Shooting in the Wild, his controversial and entertaining memoir about the dark side of wildlife filmmaking.
In 2004, Chris joined American University’s full-time faculty as Distinguished Film Producer in Residence at the School of Communication. There he founded, and currently directs, the Center for Environmental Filmmaking.
Chris is also president of the One World One Ocean Foundation, a multimillion-dollar global media campaign to save the oceans. |
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Kathryn Pasternak
Pasternak Media LLC
7533 Fisher Drive
Falls Church
VA 22043
USA
Phone: +1 703 216 1746
Email:
kathryn.pasternak@gmail.com
Website: www.pasternakmedia.com |
Pasternak Media offers strategic planning, story /editorial consultation and the Executive Producing services of Emmy Award winning producer/writer Kathryn Pasternak, for wildlife and other documentary film projects and conservation media.
Kathryn produces, writes and shoots documentary television projects, as well as reversioning TV programs for the US market.
She is available on a work for hire basis. |
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Sabyasachi Patra
Wild Tiger Productions
A113, First Floor
Shivalik
New Delhi
Delhi 110017
India
Phone: +91 99 1090 0446
Email: sabyasachi.patra@gmail.com & sabyasachi.patra@indiawilds.com
Websites: www.indiawilds.com
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Sabyasachi is an award winning cameraman and filmmaker who is passionately criss-crossing India in his SUV to document the fast vanishing wildlife of India. Sabyasachi is currently working on a documentary on leopards living outside protected areas titled Leopards: The Last Stand. He uses his Canon Cinema EOS C300 camera as well as Canon 1D C and Go Pro 3 cameras to get the desired footage. His deep knowledge of animal behaviour makes him move close to large mammals and get the desired footage that would have been otherwise impossible to get.
Sabyasachi uses his Canon long tele lenses as well as wides and believes in using the heavy OConnor fluid head and tripod for stable footage, even in treacherous terrain. He is adept in sound recording using his Sound Devices recorders and various microphones including shotgun and parabolic microphones. He is well versed in editing in Final Cut Pro X (FCP X).
A prolific writer and conservationist, he is the founder of IndiaWilds (www.indiawilds.com) an online conservation and photography forums and writes a monthly newsletter to raise awareness about the fast vanishing wilderness areas and wildlife of India. He has made many short films for conservation like A Call in the Rainforest, Mother and Child, Scavengers, A God in Distress, Blood Betting: Cock Fights etc.
He is available for any assignment as DoP, still photographer, Sound Recordist, Director and Editor. |
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Lutfi Pratomo
Jl Bareng Kartini III D no 221
Malang 65119
East Java
Indonesia
Phone: +62 85 333 900 158
Email: lutventura@gmail.com
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Lutfi started his career in media the year 2005 as a reporter at PT Republika Media Mandiri. In the beginning of 2008, he continued his career to NGO Centre For Orangutan Protection, as a director, camera operator, photographer, field coordinator program, research. Some of his work is published in the book titled The Ape Crusader, Sean Whyte, Halsgrove Publishing, October 10, 2011, UK.
In 2010, he joined Gekko Studio (The multi Unit Of Perkumpulan Telapak) as a Film
Director, Camera Operator. In the last 10 years, GEKKO STUDIO has produced a considerable number of audio visual product associated with environmental issues and promotion of the community’s role in protecting and conserving their environment. GEKKO’s documentary videos and various reports have been proven to be an effective campaign tool and brought about positive changes at both policy maker and grassroots level.
Lutfi is also active in helping post-production with GEKKO STUDIO on a short documentary video campaign for NGOs concerns on environmental issues.
His footage has been used in News features and for programming on National Geographic Channel, Rettet den Regenwald, and a number of other major broadcasters.
At the present time, he is a freelance film director, camera person, active in documentary film workshops in several state universities in Malang city, East Java. |
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Paul Redman
Director, lighting cameraman, editor and activist.
Handcrafted Films
22c Castlewood Road
London
N16 6DW
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7887 557 464
Email: paulredman@handcraftedfilms.net
Website: www.handcraftedfilms.net & www.paulredman.net
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Paul has been a campaigning filmmaker in the environmental movement for over 10 years with the Environmental Investigation Agency and since 2006 with Handcrafted Films.
His work has involved directing, filming and editing a variety of films for advocacy on a range of issues including the trade in tiger parts, whale and dolphin trade, illegal logging and the ivory trade.
This work has involved extensive travel in hazardous environments as a small crew using both open and covert filming techniques.
His footage has been used in News features and for programming on BBC, Sky, CNN and a number of other major broadcasters.
He has also trained activists media-based campaigning techniques in Indonesia, Papua, India and Tanzania as part of extensive UK Government funded training programs.
His directing work with Handcrafted Films has produced a number of award-winning short films for major development funders (UK DFID, European Forestry Institute) and non-governmental organisations (Amnesty, WSPA). He has been nominated three times for the FFC filmmaker of the year award. |
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Anthony Roberts
ZED Creative
Trefriw
Conwy
LL27 0RJ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7789 071 038
Email: anthony@iamzed.co.uk
Website: www.iamzed.co.uk
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I am a freelance Motion Graphics designer.
I have worked in the design industry for over 23 years, the last 12 years as a creative director.
I have a passion for wildlife and conservation and I have a particular love for Africa, having travelled quite extensively through the southern half of the continent. |
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Sebastien Rombi
Trogon House and Forest Spa
Monkeyland Road
The Crags/Plettenberg Bay
Western Cape 6602
South Africa
Phone: +27 723 030 582
Email: sebastienr@beyondborders.co.za
Website: www.beyondborders.co.za
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Sebastien was born and bred in Libreville, Gabon (Central Africa) - hence his deep passion for Nature and his love of adventure, traveling and sharing!
After studying european and african nature conservation and wildlife filmmaking, he had the opportunity to work in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve as a 2D/3D camera operator, editor and presenter for Wildearth.TV for their live safaris. Being one of the pioneers in the 3D film industry, he was approached by world renowned filmmakers, Foster Brother Productions, to work on Dragon 3D. This 1 hour film is about scuba diving with Nile Crocodiles in the Okavango Delta and Seb was responsible for all the online 3D editing.
During his film career, Seb has edited numerous projects for Wildearth.tv, his flagship being a 13 part 3D series about safaris in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve and the current series called Kalahari Meerkats 3D with Wildearth.TV
He is now an independent wildlife filmmaker through Beyond Borders Productions trading as 'Beyond Borders' where he tries to get involved into as many wildlife documentaries and films as possible, marketing himself as a producer, 2D&3D video editor, DOP and 2D&3D camera operator.
Seb has a professional edit suite with iMacs, Final Cut Pro and a 3D TV and can also offer his editing services with his own equipment if you don't have yours.
Seb is now based in Plettenberg Bay on the Garden Route of South Africa. He is a very keen traveller and he will not hesitate to jump in a car or a plane to be part of your current production if you need his services.
His other project for 2013 is the opening of his 3D Nature Film School!
His love and passion for all things wild and free can be seen in his projects, and his open mindedness and inventive thinking can only be a benefit to your current and future productions. |
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Henry Tamblin
2 Gyllyng Street
Falmouth
Cornwall TR113EH
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7946 136 624
Email: henry_tamblin@hotmail.co.uk
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Diverse and experienced operator and assistant.
Producer and director of wildlife web content.
Footage broadcast by NatGeo wild and discovery amongst others. |
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Yusuf Thakur
VFX
(Visual Effects & Productions LLC)
P.O.Box 49265
Dubai
UAE
Phone: +971 43 471 248
Mobile: +971 554 153 373
Fax: +971 43 479 335
Email: vfxwildlife@gmail.com
Website: www.vfxme.com
VFX Promo: here!
| Yusuf is a filmmaker based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A qualified Filmmaker, with a degree in Film Direction, he has been producing films across the gamut from Television Commercials, Tele-serials, Music Videos & the most fulfilling, for the last twenty years Wildlife/Nature Documentaries.
He heads VFX Productions, a studio based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Till date he has produced ten Wildlife/Nature documentaries. His latest is a series of 45mins X 3 films based on the Wildlife and Environment of the region, filming for which has been completed and series is in the final stages of post-production. In 2010 he completed “Rak-Tree of Life” which presents five trees, their environment, flora and fauna and the part played by them in the life, heritage, and culture of people of UAE. His other recent films are “Bu Tinah” nomination film for the new seven wonders of the world, “Tracking Mermaids” and “Abu Dhabi – Home of the Legendary Mermaids” both are based on dugongs found in the waters of UAE.
His past work has won awards at Jackson Hole, IWFF Montana, and Earth-vision.
He would like to produce, work, collaborate, co-produce films on Conservation, Pure Wildlife, and children's based nature programs. Specifically work on films based on the Middle-East, and the Indian Subcontinent. Past films have been based on birds, dugongs, islands, mangroves and deserts. Would love to work with broadcasters on co-productions. |
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Swati Thiyagarajan
Cape Town, South Africa & New Delhi, India
Phone: +27 21 786 2340
Email: swati@ndtv.com
Website: www.ndtv.com |
Swati is an accomplished director, editor, writer and presenter.
She is a wildlife and conservation journalist/filmmaker. |
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Nick Upton
5 Kingsdown House
Kingsdown
Corsham
Wiltshire SN13 8AX
UK
Phone: +44 (0)1225 742300
Email:
nickupton@btopenworld.com
| Nick is a freelance director, writer and producer with over 20 years experience of working on wildlife films and series of many kinds, from high end to low budget, for a wide variety of broadcast/non-broadcast clients in Europe/USA/Asia.
Films he's written, directed and produced have won nearly 100 awards including 11 'Best of Festival' wins in 8 countries and he's contributed to many other award-winning productions.
Nick is interested in working on wildlife films on a very flexible basis, offering consultancy, directing, writing, producing or a combination of these. He also has extensive sound recording, stills photography and some 2nd camera experience.
He's also a co-author of The Norfolk Cranes' Story. |
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Sophie Vartan
DewClaw Productions
49 Hely Hutchinson Ave
Camps Bay
Cape Town
8005
South Africa
Phone: +27 823 755 022
Email: sophie@dewclawproductions.com
Website: www.dewclawproductions.com
| Sophie is the Executive Producer and Managing Director at DewClaw Productions which includes the DewClaw Academy.
She has executive produced over 150 hours of wildlife programming, including a 3D documentary feature on Nile crocodiles in Botswana.
Through teamwork, some of her titles have been nominated for over 40 international awards (see the websites Awards page), including an International Emmy Award for the boundary-breaking documentary Into the Dragons Lair.
Sophie has founded several successful initiatives which include:
- NHU Africa (The Natural History Unit of Africa)
- Wild Talk Africa Film Festival and Conference
- The Wildlife Film Academy
- The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition - South Africa
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Madelaine Westwood
Nutshell Productions/GAFI
3 Westfield Cottages
Westfield, Medmenham
Marlow, Bucks SL7 2HQ
United Kingdom
Mobile: +44 (0)7770 577 549
Email:
madelaine@nutshellproductions.co.uk
Website: www.nutshellproductions.co.uk
& www.gafi4apes.org
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Madelaine is owner and producer at Nutshell Productions, the wildlife and conservation production company.
She is
also Director of the Great Apes Film Initiative (GAFI), a non profit organisation which used the power of film and the media in service of conservation.
Her specialties include:
- Wildlife film production
- Conservation filmmaking
- Wildlife film training
- Negotiation
- Project Management
- Co-Production
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Natalia Whiteside
Sagacity Films
21 Powis Square
Brighton
East Sussex BN1 3HG
United Kingdon
Phone: +44 (0)7909 970 203
Email: natalia@sagacityfilms.co.uk
| Natalia has a wide range of experience in directing and editing documentary film and video production. Her current focus is on nature and ecological themes.
In 2011 she graduated with an MA in Digital Documentary from Sussex University. On the course she produced a short half hour documentary called A Wild Hide which is a character portrait with an underlying environmental theme. It was screened at the SEE Documentary Film Festival in 2011.
The film is about a Brighton based artist who commandeers small pockets of land for building dens in, illegally. Inspired by nature the dens are beautiful, created out of natural and recycled materials. The film takes us deep into the English countryside and below the surface of mainstream society.
Natalia is currently developing a mini Eco series called Lily's Eco Diary. 'Seek and you will find . . . a new approach to everyday life. Lily discovers fresh ideas for ecological and sustainable living in her home county of Sussex'. The pilot can be seen here. |
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Joe Yaggi
Jungle Run Productions
Jalan Raya Sanggingan #1
Ubud 80571, Bali
Indonesia
Phone: +62 8123813887
Email: joe@jungle-run.com
Website: www.jungle-run.com
| Joe is a freelance Director and Cameraman based in Indonesia. He's worked across the Indonesian archipelago and right across the region. Projects range from wildlife to social issues, conservation to education. Joe has contributed to feature docs, factual programs and educational productions as well.
Some recent credits include:
History of the World, BBC1 – Indonesia camera unit.
Trashed, Blenheim Films: A feature documentary presented by Jeremy Irons – Indonesia camera unit.
Alien from Earth, PBS Nova & ABC Australia – 2nd unit camera.
Heads Above Water, BBC World – DOP, Co-Director Indonesia.
Age of Stupid, Feature Documentary Launch USA – Greenpeace Director/DOP. |
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