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Tania Esteban

Tania Rose Esteban

Tania Esteban

TRE Productions
Bristol
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)7482 299 623

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Email: tania.esteban@betafilmworks.org

Website: www.treproductions.co.uk

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Tania is a dedicated bilingual Zoologist (English/Spanish), Assistant Producer/2nd camera operator (Red Helium 8K) with a passion for visually stunning, emotive natural history storytelling. A graduate from the University of Leeds (1st class) where she conducted 11 months research on bats, she completed a Masters in Wildlife Filmmaking partnered with the BBC and is using her technical knowledge, research skills and creative talents to produce emotive, cinematic and stylish wildlife documentaries that entertain and connect with audiences. Recent work includes research on BBC Wild Cats, NHU Digital projects alongside Planet Earth 2 & Blue Planet, mini-landmark Wild Cities, Series researcher on C5 Wild Canada, Silverback Films/WWF/Netflix's Our Planet (Halo), 8K BBC Landmark The Mating Game and now as an Assistant producer on a new Netflix film (NDA).

Tania is also a Panasonic Lumix, Sennheiser, Atomos Brand Ambassador and Swarovski NATURE Optics Explorer - shooting and producing exclusive 4K/6K/HDR content. Also part of Blackmagic Design Advocate programme working their grading panels.

She has experience in all areas of the industry (professionally for 5 years) including setting up and directing complex/remote foreign shoots, edit experience in post, research, storyboarding, camerawork (with additional photography credits), archive, permitting, sound recording, editing (AVID/DaVinci/Premiere).

Her final student BAFTA nominated and award winning wildlife film featured actress Virginia McKenna/Born Free Foundation, where she gained exclusive access to the largest ivory burn in history filming the human-lion conflict in Kenya.

On location directing/shooting in remote countries Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Japan, Oman, Iceland, Laos, Sumatra, Central America, Namibia, Australia, Kenya, South Africa, Azores, Spain.

Camera: Red Helium 8K, Gemini low light, Phantom Flex 4K, Panasonic V35, S1H, EVA1, GH5, Sony F55, S7, A7Siii
Lens: CN20, CN7, Master macro 100mm, Laowa probe 24mm, 30-300mm, Cine primes, L series

Drone pilot: CAA license, Inspire 2, 1 Sound: Mixer 522, Sennheiser 416, SK100
Editing: Premier, Avid, DaVinci
Rigs/Dolly: Ronin M, EZ Jib, Gimbals, Kessler
Techniques: Long lens, macro, gimbal, remote camera trap, timelapse

Credits: 2015 - 2021

  • Silverback Films/Netflix: NDA - Assistant Producer
  • Silverback Films/ BBC/ NHK - The Mating Game - Shooting/ Directing Researcher
  • Silverback Films: Halo Our Planet - Researcher
  • C5/Tigress: A Year in the Wild: Canada - 2017-2018 Series Researcher
  • Panasonic/Wex Photographic: Ice - land : Camera/Drone
  • Panasonic ambassador/WWF - The Last Mahout, camera/producer and new 2021 film release (The Guardians of Ikigai: Japan)
  • BBC Wild Metropolis - Researcher
  • BBC Blue Planet 2/Our Blue Planet - Researcher NHU Digital
  • BBC Sumatra Live - Researcher NHU Digital
  • BBC Planet Earth 2 - Researcher NHU Digital & archive
  • BBC Planet Earth 2 - Spanish translator & narrator
  • BBC Wild Cats - Researcher (work experience)
  • One Show - Icon Films, Development researcher (work experience)
  • Vale Vets - Green World TV, Nigel Marvin, Camera operator
  • A Lion's Tale - (TRE Production/Born Free)
  • First Fin (UWE) - Hebridean Whale Trust In Dreams - Camera assistant (Drama) BBC Taster - iWhale ,VR interactive

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Tania Esteban - A Lion's Tale


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A Lion’s Tale Teaser trailer from Tania Esteban

2016 is The Year of the Lion that will honour the 50th anniversary of the film Born Free. A story of true determination, passion, love and drama - it is one of the most successful conservation stories ever told all. This film will be presented by Virginia McKenna, the actress turned wildlife activist as she tells us about her journey to protect the lions of East Africa and introduces us to the team of rangers currently working in Elsa's heartland, Meru National Park. Led by Virginia’s son, Will Travers and the charismatic Victor Mutumah (of the Kenya Wildlife Service), we see first-hand how the threat to lions has never been so pressing.

Eco Talk: Dr. Chadden Hunter- From Academia to Film - Interview with BBC Producer Chadden Hunter about getting into wildlife filmmaking.

NATIONAL PET SHOW FILM 2015 - Featuring Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick - Filmed this as part of the Birmingham National Pet Show 2016 with presenter Anneka Svenska for Green World TV. Promoting the event and highlighting the passion these people have for thier pets (Sony FS700, JVC 100, Mixer 522, Sennhieser MK16).

Oh deer? A question of deer and overpopulation - I worked as an assistant camerawoman, researcher and presenter for Eco sapien, a YouTube Channel used as an educational tool to illustrate the importance of biodiversity. We went out on location to capture a variety of footage for the fortnightly released episodes.

Wildscreen's New Horizons: Nicholas Röhl - Wildscreen Re-launch 2015 Bristol: Filmed at Bristol Old Vic on 12 November 2015 as part of 'New Horizons in Natural World Storytelling', an evening of inspirational short talks by a diverse and innovative group of storytellers where Wildscreen shared its vision of the future for natural world storytelling and its place within it.

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