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Sarah Abbott
Hobart
Tasmania
Australia
Phone: +61 430 214 461
Email: sga.abbott@gmail.com

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Science/nature writer and producer.
Sarah has extensive experience working with major broadcasters, including as a science program and documentary producer with Network Ten Australia, video journalist with BBC News, and creative producer with Southern Cross Austereo.
Sarah has written and produced over 650 stories for the science, wildlife and adventure programs Scope and Totally Wild, and written two feature length environmental documentaries.
Currently freelancing as a science and nature videographer, Sarah is writing, shooting and editing projects for environmental and conservation organisations.
Master of Science Communication
Bachelor of Biological Sciences
Sarah offers services in: script writing, field producing, researching, casting, logistics, scouting, filming, editing, sourcing stock vision.
*Also excellent local contacts for aerial cinematography by drone, helicopter and plane. |

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Lauren Ayres
Presenter, Host, Wildlife Conservation Influencer
California
USA
Phone: +1 619 (535) 1656

Email: Lauren.ayres@me.com
Website: www.laurenayres.com



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Lauren is a conservation influencer, presenter, wildlife care & behavior specialist, and TV host/corespondent.
Her network credits include Animal Planet, National Geographic, NBC, CBS, PBS, and the CW. She most recently appeared on Nickelodeon’s ‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader’ as a zookeeper & animal presenter. She has experience in live broadcasts, teleprompter, stage, animal handling & presenting, voiceover, and improv.
She serves as the Pangolin Project Coordinator and Public Relations & Media Coordinator for the US non-profit, Global Conservation Force ; where she has worked as a production coordinator for wildlife documentaries and newscasts.
Lauren works as a Senior Animal Trainer at a zoo in Southern California and has been employed as a zookeeper since 2007. She has worked with a variety of different animals from naked mole rats to killer whales, tigers to tenrecs, and everything in between.
She holds a Master's of Science degree in Marine Ecosystem Management and Bachelor's degrees in Biology & Psychology with focuses in Animal Behavior & Underwater Resource Management - all from Indiana University. Additionally, she is a PADI Assistant SCUBA Instructor and outdoor sports enthusiast.
Lauren’s passions include spreading the message of conservation to the younger generations, inspiring viewers to protect their home ecosystems, and advocating for responsible ecotourism travel. |

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Caroline Brett
Shake the Tree Productions
Keeper's Cottage
Rectory Road
Suffield
Norfolk NR11 7ER
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1263 731 659
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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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Adrian Cale
London, England (UK)
Phone:+44 (0)7789 205211
email: ade.cale@gmail.com
Website:www.adriancale.co.uk


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I am an independent wildlife film-maker who has written a wide variety of natural history content for various international broadcast and production partners. Content includes press releases, programme pitch documents, synopsis, treatments, scripts and script editing.
Credits include:Baboon Boot Camp: Parthenon Entertainment, International Animal Rescue: Orangutan: IAR, Gibbons: Back in the Swing: 5 x 30' - Animal Planet/Discovery Networks, Woolly Jumpers: Made in Peru: Animal Planet/Discovery Networks. Winner BEST NEWCOMER AWARD at the International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF) 2006. Make me a Monkey: Electric Sky Distribution.
My combination of skill sets can compliment a number of crewing options and allow me to accommodate flexible and demanding budgets. I also develop my own independent film projects, which affords me a clear understanding of what it takes to carry a good program idea through from concept to completion.
Adrian is also a Wildeye Tutor. |

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Alice Clarke
Bristol
Phone: Coming soon.
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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Michael Anthony Cowton
EcoTravelGuide
74 Canterbury Drive
Heighington
Lincoln
Lincolnshire LN4 1SX
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7720 754 390

Email: editor@ecotravelguide.eu
Website: www.ecotravelguide.eu
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Michael is a freelance editor, travel and wildlife writer/photographer, and runs the website www.ecotravelguide.eu, with a focus on nature, wildlife and conservation.
A member of The International Ecotourism Society and the International Travel Writers Alliance, he is currently undergoing a distance learning certifcate course in wildlife conservation.
A former national newspaper sub-editor and columnist, he has edited several outdoors titles, and currently writes for a range of newspapers and magazines. |

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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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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
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Mark Fletcher
Mill Cottage
125 Westbrook
Bromham
Chippenham
Wiltshire SN15 2EE
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1380 850 183

Email: muddytrack@gmail.com

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Editor and Writer.
Personal Highlights 2014:
- Top US wildlife film PBS 2013/14, and 10th highest show PBS 2013/14, Mating Game.
- iMDb 13th best wildlife films ever made. Himalayas.
- 18,000 people standing ovation in Amsterdam's Zigga Dome.
- Working on an all-Chinese production.
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Sara is a Zoologist, Writer and Speaker.
With 4 years of presenting experience she has presented anywhere from on live television and radio to museums and schools. She is currently a Senior Wildlife Officer for ORCA and works on a mini-cruise ferry in the North Sea, surveying marine mammals and presenting to on board guests about whale and dolphin conservation. Recent work includes guiding both BBC film crew for The One Show and Ray Mears on current documentaries. Previous to this, Sara has been the President of Newcastle University’s Zoological Society, a Wildlife Guide and Presenter on a Whale Watching boat in Scotland and a Wildlife Rehabilitator in Canada - working with black bears, coyotes, raccoons and much more.
Sara also excels with the written word and is currently writing a book about wildlife conservation in Canada. She has worked as a Features Journalist for a newspaper and has recently published an article in the UK Wolf Conservation Trust magazine, in addition to producing, narrating and editing a wolf biology DVD.
A hardy traveller, Sara has backpacked all over the world from +40°c in the Sahara Desert to -40°c in the Yukon Territories. She is never afraid of hard work and always researching her next expedition. Relative new comer looking to gain more work and experience.
- Interested in: Presenting, Public Speaking, Researching, Writing, Editing.
- What I can offer: Passion for communicating science and Natural History subjects in an enthusiastic manner, flexibility, wildlife guiding and experience working in remote locations.
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Tamsyn van Gelderen
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Phone: +27 74 101 5388

Email: nysmatic@gmail.com

 

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I have an enquiring mind that I refined as a journalist and honed whilst travelling the world. I fulfilled a lifelong dream to study animal science; and combined excellent writing skills with my animal obsession by writing and researching wildlife documentaries.
Working in house and as a freelancer for a variety of companies over the years that specialize in Blue Chip wildlife docs, has added polish to my research and stimulating contacts and experts to my contact list.
I relish finding obscure and wonderful facts that enhance the story. My tenacity in finding the information my team needs always results in accurate and exciting films that exacting international broadcasters can trust.
I enjoy language, so as a copy editor my attention to detail is as intense and precise as I can make it.
Copy and script editing are always fun as I learn as much from tightening the prose as I do from my research.
I have to admit that I get a real kick from every story I work on - I truly enjoy what I do. |

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Award winning filmmaker Kire Godal makes natural history and conservation films on Africa, as well as commercial and promotional films for African companies and NGO's.
Her work can be seen internationally on the National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild worldwide, Discovery Animal Planet, Fox, France 5, among many others.
As a filmmaker and explorer Kire is the first to film many rare and secret ceremonies of diverse traditional African groups. She is also passionate about wildlife, and dedicated to human-wildlife stories and environmental issues.
Kire was nominated for the prestigious 2014 Panda Award given at Wildscreen Film Festival UK for her film Lion Guardians. Her film Lion Warriors for National Geographic was nominated at 2011 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival for best in People & Nature category, as well as being a finalist in three categories at the International Wildlife Film Festival 2011. There Will Always Be Lions? won two Merit Awards for "Conservation Ethics & Cultural Message" at the International Wildlife Film Festival 2012, and was nominated for a Roscar Award in 2013.
She helped produce and shoot The Elephant in the Room an illegal ivory awareness PSA which won 'Best in Short Shorts' category at Jackson Hole Film Festival 2013. |

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Nardine is an environmental journalist, radio producer and wildlife photographer from Australia. She has travelled to many wild places, from Svalbard to the Amazon, to work alongside scientists and photograph animals in their natural environment.
She has worked as an animal presenter at Zoos Victoria for nine years and in 2010 produced a short film about lions through the Wildlife Film Academy in South Africa. More recently, Nardine has worked as a researcher and features writer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Last year she produced a radio documentary for ABC Radio National's PocketDocs program, The Whale Aria, where she used her own classically trained soprano voice to compare whale and human song.
She has qualifications in Creative writing, Zoology and Environmental Journalism and last year spent her final semester in Copenhagen where she gained media accreditation to attend the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris as a freelance journalist.
Her focus is to use the creative mediums of radio, tv and interactive online to engage audiences in compelling wildlife, environmental and conservation storytelling that will better explore the human relationship with the natural world.
Nardine is currently studying on the BBC Natural History Unit affiliated Masters of Wildlife Filmmaking at UWE in Bristol, where she is further developing her skills in storytelling, camera, sound, editing and field craft. |

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Hannah Hoare
Bristol
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7917 787 827
Email: hannah.hoare@blueyonder.co.uk
Website: www.hannahvision.com

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I'm a freelance producer/director, writer & edit producer with experience in a variety of wildlife programme styles including blue chip natural history, presenter-led films, animal & people documentaries, short films and fast-paced & funny docusoaps. |

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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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Matthew Leiper
Bramcote
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Phone:+44 (0)7907 782 997

Email: matt.leiper@hotmail.co.uk
 
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Matthew Leiper recently graduated from the University of Salford with a Masters Degree in Wildlife Documentary Production.
His experiences have taken him across the globe from filming Tasmanian Devils in Australia to Hammerhead Sharks in the Bahamas and has experience behind both the camera and the keyboard for filming and editing roles respectively.
With a Grade 8 in LAMDA Verse and Prose, Matthew also has a clear and strong reading voice - he has narrated all of his own work himself as well as the documentaries of some of his fellow students. |

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Dee Marshall
202 Chemin des Vachers
Uriage 38410
France
Phone: +33 6 11 54 81 12
Email: dee.marshall@gmail.com
Website: www.beneaththeskies.com

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Freelance Photographer/Writer/Production Assistant/Researcher.
Dee is an experienced writer and photographer with extensive knowledge of wildlife and proven ability in wildlife photography, filming and editing.
In addition to a diploma in Mammal Ecology and Conservation and many short courses in natural history film production, she has several years experience in visual and written communication.
Having spent many years editing texts and writing for scientific journals, she is experienced in researching and studying a wide variety of scientific subjects.
Dee writes illustrated articles for an online natural history magazine, organises film and photography workshops and manages large budget media projects for clients.
She is fluent in French and English and competent in Italian, German and Japanese.
A keen eye for detail - a creative flair - highly organised - efficient - passionate about natural history. |

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Alan Miller
Shake the Tree Productions
Keeper's Cottage
Rectory Road
Suffield
Norfolk NR11 7ER
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1263 731 659
Email: alanmiller@mac.com
Website: www.alan-miller.co.uk


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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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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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Thivanka Rukshan Perera
330/12, Old Kottawa Road
Udahamulla, Nugegoda
Sri Lanka
Phone: +94 77 288 1665

Email: thivankaperera@yahoo.com


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Thivanka R. Perera is a graduate of Academy of Art in San Francisco, where he majored in writing for film and television.
He has written/directed several short natural history documentaries -- of particular note are his two documentaries about the mythical 'Devil Bird' of Sri Lanka ["The Devil Bird of Sri Lanka (2014)" and "Voice of the Night (2017)"] which has garnered extensive views online.
His first wildlife documentary short, "Brown Wood Owl - Juvenile's Journey", was screened at 20 international film festivals, including the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in NYC in 2014.
Currently, he is the CEO of Aegle Creations (in his home country, Sri Lanka), where he is completing the Blue-Chip documentary "Wild Lives - Sri Lanka", a one-off program about the rich biodiversity of Sri Lanka set to be released later this year. |

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Katya Rogers
Salford
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7305 056 006
Email: katyarogers@rogers.com

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I am a recent graduate of the MA in Wildlife Documentary Production from the University of Salford.
My BA is in Media, Information and Technoculture, with a Minor in English Language and Literature.
My passion is writing, and I would love to incorporate this with my love for wildlife. |

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Benjamin Smail
Benjamin Smail Productions
Hilversum
North Holland
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 61 165 7140
Email: benjamin@
benjaminsmailproductions.com
Website: www.benjaminsmailproductions.com




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My passion and main devotion in life are in the creation of natural history documentaries. With many years of experience learning the skills needed in this area of filmmaking. As well as all the specialised professional kits needed to capture wild animals in nature in 4K & 8k in slow motion.
Working with Nature parks & wildlife tourism companies creating documentaries and promotional content, these are some of the few clients that regularly use my services, after leaving working on live TV broadcasts after 10 years. As well as creating and hosting live awards shows for the international Nature Photographer of the year (NPOTY) Also an editor and filmmaker for online virtual Nature Photography festivals which I wrote and presented live.
Certificate in Wildlife-film Natural history course and a university degree in film & TV production. With work experience working on shows like the BBC natural history unit's "Natural World" series.
I am confident working with a whole range of large format 4K cameras (and higher). I have experience working with a wide range of specialist grip and kits, associated with natural history filmmaking including high-speed cameras for slow-motion, sliders, motion control time-lapses, cranes, aerial drones, gimbal stabilised rigs, camera traps and macro scopes to name a few. Long lens filming experienced in hide work and have a strong understanding of fieldcraft, most recently having spent time filming elusive Pine Martens and Stone Martens for a local wildlife tourism company. With extensive aminal science and behaviour knowledge as well as animal tracking.
Apart from behind the camera I also have the kit and knowledge for all other parts of the production, for example, audio, broadcast engineering & repairs, data management, pre-production & planning, post-production, lighting, writing, directing, narration, presenting and still photography among others.
Please contact me for more information I love to hear about new exciting projects! |

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Darryl Sweetland
Thailand Wild
Thailand
Mobile: +66 81 532 0303

Email: darrylsweetland@yahoo.com

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Biologist, writer, and cameraman, Darryl has lived and worked in Thailand since 1996. He speaks, reads, and writes Thai.
Darryl has extensive experience of looking for and filming Thai wildlife and most often this involves spending long periods in hides and camping in the forest, which is something he loves.
From Oct 2007 to March 2010 Darryl was a regular contributor to www.earth-touch.com (Wild Touch - SABC2), and some of his work can be viewed in the Thailand section of their website.
Darryl offers a wide range of services to film crews wishing to work in Thailand.
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Swati Thiyagarajan
Cape Town, South Africa & New Delhi, India
Website: www.ndtv.com

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Swati is an accomplished director, editor, writer and presenter.
She is a wildlife and conservation journalist/film-maker. |

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Sharyn Umaña-Angers
San Diego
California
USA
Phone: +1 424 391 6220

Email: sharyn.umana@gmail.com
Website: www.sharynsstudio.com
 


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Having worked as a one-woman crew for several years, I am a jack-of-all-trades.
I traveled the world for 5 1/2 years as a Creative Video Producer with Princess Cruises before working as a Videographer with the prestigious San Diego Zoo Global organization.
Recently, I have produced videos for local wildlife nonprofit organizations and am looking to take the next step into full-scale documentaries.
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Thomas Veltre
The really Interesting Picture Company
33-21 163rd Street
Flushing
New York 11358
USA
Phone: +1 646 797 3171

Email: tom.veltre@
thereallyinteresting
picturecompany.com
Website: www.thereallyinteresting
picturecompany.com



| Founded by Filmmaker and Communication Scholar Thomas Veltre, The Really Interesting Picture Company is exactly what it claims -
a creative production company dedicated to exploring really interesting ideas and untold stories through a broad range of media.
Our work embraces Arts, Science, Wildlife & Environment, News, Broadcast,
On-line, Museum Exhibit and other non-fiction applications. Based in New York City and around the world, The TRIPCo Team
includes some of the most interesting artists and
craftspeople working in digital media today.
Thomas Veltre brings more than two decades of media production experience to his role as proprietor of The Really Interesting Picture Company.
Formerly in-house media producer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, Tom writes, shoots and edits in a wide variety of formats for a broad spectrum of venues, ranging from documentaries, news and public affairs programming to interactive museum exhibits, instructional materials and new media applications. As a producer/cinematographer, he has covered stories on four different continents, and his work has been broadcast by all the major North American commercial television networks, PBS, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, CNN, BBC, NHK (Japan) and Fuji TV (Japan).
He holds an undergraduate degree in Music Education from the Crane School of Music, (SUNY Potsdam), and did his masters and doctoral work in Media Ecology at New York University under Neil Postman. Tom is also a former board member of Filmmakers For Conservation, and an adjunct professor in Communications at Fordham University where he explores the interface of mass communication and the environment. |

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Nick Owen Williams
Abingdon
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7854 162 519
Email: nickowenwilliams@gmail.com
Website: nickowenwilliams.wix.com/livewild

 

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Services offered:
Research and Development
Offline and Online editing with Premiere Pro (equipment supplied)
Camera and sound recording assistance
Running and logistical support
Person Summary:
A self-shooting researcher with an MA in Wildlife Filmmaking and experience of every aspect of production including research/development, camera, sound, and post-production. Proficient in use of Premiere Pro and Avid ProTools software and confident working with a wide range of cameras and audio equipment on location. Background in writing and theatre with a degree in English from Oxford University and experience of script writing and voice-over work.
A creative, highly organised, and motivated individual. |
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