Gaby Bastyra

2, 147 Queens Drive
London N4 2BB
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)7941 387314

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.

Caroline Brett

Hall Farm House
Suffield
Norfolk NR11 7EW
UK

Phone: +44 (0)1263 768203

Email: carolinebrett@mac.com

Website: www.shakethetree.co.uk

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.

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

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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."

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.

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

Jamie Crawford

110 Kempe Road
London NW6 6SL
United Kingdom

Email: info@jamiecrawfordmedia.com

Website: www.jamiecrawfordmedia.com

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

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!

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.

Chris Palmer
Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking

School of Communication, American University 4400 Mass Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20016-8017
USA

Phone: +1 202 885 3408

Email: palmer@american.edu

Website: www.environmentalfilm.org

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Chris Palmer is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is a wildlife filmmaker who joined the SOC faculty in 2004. Since then, he has founded its Center for Environmental Filmmaking; launched Classroom in the Wild, which takes students to the Florida Everglades, Alaska and other wilderness areas to make films; and initiated collaborations with Maryland Public Television, which broadcasts SOC student films as part of its EcoViews series about the Chesapeake Bay, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which gives students an opportunity to participate in many of its media projects. Palmer has produced hundreds of hours of films for television and the global network of IMAX theaters. He and his colleagues have won numerous awards, including two Emmys, an Oscar nomination and, most recently, the Environmental Film Educator of the Decade Award at the Green Globe Film Awards. His book, Shooting in the Wild, was published in May 2010 by Sierra Club Books.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.