Festival-Inspiration vom Großmeister des Wildlife Films David Attenborough:

"I truly believe that natural history broadcasters are a crucial element in saving the natural world. 
t’s a crucial job that YOU can do better than anyone else – you are very important people.
I believe that natural history broadcasting is critical if we, humanity, are to be able to solve the problems of this planet."
David Attenborough Wildscreen 2014

Wildeye (Link zur Eigendarstellung und Liste der tollen Tutoren) was born in the 1990s when founder Piers Warren realised the need for independent education and information for wildlife and conservation film-makers, whether professional, amateur or newcomers. An early project was the development of www.wildlife-film.com, and its associated monthly e-zine Wildlife Film News, which remains today the world's leading source of information about the wildlife film-making industry, Google's no. 1 ranking website for 'wildlife film' and many other related searches.

Wildeye's core activity, however, soon became the educational opportunities in the form of short specialist courses in Norfolk, UK, and longer overseas opportunites. We have now had many hundreds of students on our courses from all over the world and are thrilled to hear of those that are now accomplished in the industry, award-winners, or simply making better wildlife films for their own enjoyment. We have always had a strong focus on conservation and the desire to use film as a tool to help conserve our natural world.

Toller Lesetipp für angehende Filmemacher:

Wie man Wildlife-Filmemacher wird (Getting Started)

Einführungskurs in Norwich

Today’s wildlife filmmaker needs to be able to shoot compelling content and self-edit that content for broadcast. In keeping with that premise we have created an intensive filmmaker course that aims to develop your wildlife filmmaking skills and provide the first steps towards a career as a wildlife filmmaker.
The Black Leopard Film Campus team has extensive experience in the African bush, producing live and post produced wildlife shows with Wild Earth TV. They have been at the forefront of developing innovative wildlife filmmaking techniques and producing high quality wildlife content for over a decade. Latterly this has included 3D systems as well as LIVE TV broadcasted from the African bush. And now we can pass those skills onto you. With the guidance of our experienced wildlife filmmakers you will have the unique opportunity to research, write, produce and direct your own show reel (3 min video) and start along the road to become a professional wildlife filmmaker.

Teuer, exquisit auf privatem Game Reserve mit Kursen bis zu 3D-Techniken - Infos hier.

Wild Earth TV - ein Link zur Organisation der unabhängigen Wildlife-Filmproduzenten für Internet & Pay-TV

Nature: Behind the Scenes
The BBC has been producing ground-breaking wildlife programmes from across the globe for over 50 years. Capturing these beautiful and often rare moments means the crew and cameramen must go to some extraordinary lengths. From sleeping underground for weeks at a time, to filming on the world's largest pile of poo. From building table-top sets, to sitting in hides every day for weeks on end. It takes huge amounts of passion, patience, dedication and determination to bring these much-loved images to the audience. This video clip collection draws together stories from series such as Frozen Planet, Planet Earth and Deadly 60 and explains exactly what it takes to make some of the most memorable moments in wildlife television.

Filmmakers of The Last Lions, Derek & Beverly Joubert, were awarded in three categories:

Best Theatrical Program

Best Editing

Best Original Music Score

at the 2011 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival.

THE LAST LIONS 

Hier der Link zur TED-Präsentation von Beverly & Derek - phantastische Bilder und Videosequenzen! Darunter der Trailer:



Howard Hall und seine Frau Michele zählen wohl den besten Unterwasser-Filmermachern der Welt. Vielfach preisgekrönt waren sie stets Pioniere der Unterwasser-Filmtechnik und schufen dazu unglaublich poetische und aufklärende Filme über den Lebensraum auf Erden, der nicht nur die größte Fläche unseres Planeten bedeckt, sondern aus dem auch alles Leben stammt. Seine neueste Arbeit beschäftigt sich im 3D-Format mit dieser einzigartigen, zumeist immer noch unbekannten Welt - hier Details dazu aus seinerm Blog, der nicht nur Taucher begeistert:

ONE WORLD ONE OCEAN

Howard Hall Productions is currently consulting with MacGillivray Freeman Films on the preproduction of the "One World One Ocean" project. This is a major undertaking including multiple IMAX 3D films, a Digital Cinema Feature Release, and a series of television specials.  In recent months we have filmed in the Arctic Circle and scouted locations including South Australia and Indonesia.  

For more information on One World One Ocean visit this website.

Howard Hall Productions' last major film, Under the Sea 3D, was released in February 2009.

Read more at the left. Watch the trailer here

Last Night at Wildscreen 2014,  Keith Scholey (right), Company Director of Silverback Films presented John Downer (left) with the Wildscreen Award for Outsanding Achievement- 
The following is what Keith said
“In any creative industry there are those that follow the crowd, and those that create their own path.  Tonight’s recipient of the Christopher Parson’s Outstanding Achievement  Award is to the best example I know, in our wildlife film industry, of someone who has calved out his own unique style of film making.
Tonight’s award goes to  John Downer."

John Downer ist berühmt wegen seiner Spezial-Kameras, die so nahe Bilder von wilden Tieren machen, wie es bisher nicht möglich war. Sensationelle TV- und Kinofilme entstehen mit diesen Techniken und ermöglichen dem Zuschauer völlig neue Perspektiven. Wenn man so will: " Mit den Augen der Tiere die Welt sehen" - wie weit es einem nutzt, durch eine auf

einem Hai auf dem Rücken eingepflanzte Minikamera zu sehen, wie der Raubfisch die Unterwasserwelt jenseits aller menschlichen Möglichkeiten sehen KÖNNTE, bleibt fraglich. Es entstanden jedenfalls spektakuläre Bilder mit High-Tech-Kameras in ebenso aufsehenerregenden TV-Dokus: eine Natur wurde sichtbar, wie sie der Mensch mit seinen eigenen Augen nie sehen würde... bringt aber Quoten.

"jdp" is a media company specialising in wildlife television, feature films and commercials. It has won numerous international awards for its innovative approach to filmmaking. It made its name by abandoning the traditional style of nature documentary and pioneering a highly inventive subjective approach. Through the use of new dramatic techniques it was possible, for the first time to plunge the audience into the animal world."

Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone are a wildlife film-making partnership - founded in 1984, when they collaborated on their first film, 'Yndan an Fala - Valley beneath the Sea'. Subsequent underwater films for SURVIVAL Anglia and the BBC followed, but all changed in 1987 when Alan Root, widely considered to be the premiere wildlife film-maker of all time, invited them to the Serengeti. The result of the alliance was two specials made with Alan Root - SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW and the critically acclaimed HERE BE DRAGONS - which broke ITV viewing records with an audience figure of over 11 million.
DEVILFISH, a film the couple made for the BBC a few years later was to exceed this with an audience of over 13 million for the BBC's 'Wildlife on One'
Mark and Vicky's films are personal, authored documentaries that typically take 2-3 years to produce. The couple both produce, direct, write and shoot their films. The films are made entirely on location, working out of remote bush camps.
Mark and Vicky are versatile cinematographers - both are qualified pilots and divers. They are as at home underwater filming crocodiles as they are shooting aerials or filming minute insects perched high in the canopy. They were married in 1992 and have two sons who have been home-schooled in the bush.
Their films have achieved global recognition with over 100 international awards - including an Emmy, two Peabodys and many 'Best of Festival's.
All films are a team effort, and Mark and Vicky work with a small, dedicated team. Some have gone on to make their own films in East Africa.

One of the most famous filmmakers of recent years and the founder of the world renowned Partridge Films, Michael (Mike) Rosenberg was brought up on a farm in South Africa. With his home bordering Kruger National Park, and encouraged by his father, Mike spent his childhood photographing and filming the area's abundant wildlife. Moving to England in 1962, he initially began studying chemical engineering but realising photography was his true passion, switched courses and gained a degree in photographic technology. On its completion he started work as an assistant film editor for Allegro films, working on documentaries about classical music. In the late 1960s he applied to the BBC and ended up as an assistant editor on programmes such as Tomorrow's World and Horizon. When his father became involved with conservation in Israel, Mike made Wildlife in the Holy Land, the first film he sold to the BBC, which was broadcast as part of the The World About Us in 1974. The same year Mike set up Partridge Films, a company which built a reputation for releasing high quality wildlife productions. As well as producing numerous films for the BBC's The Natural World and The World About Us strands, Mike began work on a six part series for Channel 4's Fragile Earth in 1982. Consisting of some of his best known work, the series included Korup - An African Rainforest (1982), Siarau - The Tidal Forest (1983) and Selve Verde - Central American Rainforest (1983), all Wildscreen Panda winners.
During his long career, Mike has won more Wildscreen Golden Panda Awards than any other filmmaker, and has also been awarded two Emmys and the Queen's Award for Export Achievement. Over his hugely successful career, Mike has made hundreds of films and lists his most memorable as Namib… Strange Creatures of the Skeleton Coast (1976), Siarau - The Tidal Forest (1983), The Otters of Yellowstone (1998) and Seasons of the Sea (1990).
In 1996 he sold his share in Partridge Films and now lives in Durban, South Africa. Having established a new filmmaking company, Peartree Films, Mike currently has several projects in production.

Mike und seine Partridge-Films in Bristol waren diejenigen, von denen ich über Koproduktionen und gemeinsame Projekte alles gelernt habe, was Wildlife-Filme ausmacht...

Als besonderes Bonbon sei hier ein Video-Interview von "Wild History" mit Mike empfohlen, in dem Mike sein Leben in 11 einzeln abrufbaren Kapiteln erzählt und dabei "nebenbei" erklärt, was diese faszinierende Branche der Wildlife Film Produktion in all ihrer Widersprüchlichkeit ausmacht...