Bristol, England, United Kingdom
I am a staff producer, award-winning director and sometime film editor at BBC Studios Natural History Unit in Bristol, UK - the world's leading producer of Natural History content.
Hidden Planet Twenty years after the ground-breaking series Life in the Undergrowth, Hidden Planet will dive into the secret world of the most successful and important animals on Earth – Insects. Building on the remarkable advances in camera technology pioneered by The Green Planet, the series reveals the beautiful and dramatic lives of insects in unprecedented detail. Across five globally-filmed episodes, full of new behaviour, new insights and extraordinary drama, the series will reveal insects to be doting parents that care for their offspring and defend their families, accomplished architects that build beautiful structures and sophisticated communicators, enticing and manipulating large animals, including us. The series will also discover how insects transform and protect both the world they live in and our world too. Hidden Planet (5x60) for BBC One and iPlayer was commissioned by Jack Bootle, Head of Commissioning, Specialist Factual. It is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, the Executive producer is Mike Gunton, the Series producer is Paul Williams and Series editor is Scott Alexander. Line Producer is Natalie Cross. The BBC Commissioning Editor is Sreya Biswas, Head of Natural History. It is co-produced by The Open University.
Tom Hiddleston narrates the next epic chapter in the groundbreaking natural history series, premiering globally on November 26
Young environmental enthusiast Aneeshwar along with his friend Lizzie Daly meet amazing animals and reveal the surprising and unusual ways in which they are connected in the wild.
Producer : Programme One Life in the Air reveals the natural world from a new perspective - through the eyes of innovation. Groundbreaking techniques reveal the extraordinary behaviour and amazing science of animal flight. Delivery January 2016
* Producer : Programme One * Film editor : 1x10min 'Making Of...' programme * Reversioning Producer : 1x90min for France Televisions * Reversioning Producer : 2x51min versions for RTL, Germany An innovative new series from the BBC's Natural History Unit which combines dramatic storylines and natural history film techniques to tell the incredible stories of miniature animal heroes in the world's 'Hidden Kingdoms'. For the first time it takes the viewer into a unique and unexplored miniature world, immersing you in the action-packed lives of the planet's smaller animals. Transmitted: BBC 1, January 2014
Produced and series directed 2x60min series on animal intelligence for BBC 1 hosted by 'Bang Goes the Theory' and 'Stargazing Live' presenter, Liz Bonnin. "The BBC's highest-rated science one-off series in 2012" - Kim Shillinglaw, Commissioning editor for science and natural history, BBC. Read more: http://realscreen.com/2012/11/23/wcsfp-12-scientifically-speaking-part-one/#ixzz2x30JoFoS From skateboarding dogs to chimp maths geniuses, Liz Bonnin embarks on a worldwide search for the planet's most intelligent animals, devising some ingenious IQ puzzles and even putting herself to the test to find out. Transmitted: BBC 1, February 2012
Produced and edited 50min film on British Butterflies for BBC2's classic, long-running 'Natural World' strand. As well as revealing the beauty and incredible natural history of our British Butteflies this film explores their enduring appeal and celebrates the passionate people that butterflies inspire. From burlesque dancers recreating Victorian 'butterfly dances' to street and tattoo artists in our inner cities; gamekeepers to colourful Notting Hill carnival goers. Natural World ‘Butterflies: A Very British Obsession’. Transmitted: BBC 2, December 2010
Senior Producer and camera operator on 10 x 30min series for BBC 2, following the work of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation's Nyaru Menteng centre in Borneo - the largest ape rescue project in the world.
Produced and edited 4 x 10min programmes for the BBC's 'Wild' strand : DEAN THE DIVING DECORATOR (featuring Dean Burman - see video below) Dean is a painter and decorator by trade, but he dreams of being a wildlife cameraman. He's spent the past few years filming in a freezing flooded quarry in Leicester. This film was made to share more of Dean's fantastic footage. It also features Dean talking about his experiences. A NORFOLK RHAPSODY (in collaboration with the RSPB Film Unit, featuring cameraman Ian McCarthy and the wading birds of a Norfolk estuary, all set to the music of Vaughan Williams) One of Britain's biggest wildlife spectacles occurs on the Norfolk coast. Wildlife, weather and tide combine to drive thousands of wading birds into the sky, creating a Norfolk Rhapsody ON GOLDEN POND BAT WOMAN OF PANAMA
Producer of two programmes and editor of one in an eight-part British natural history series presented by Alan Titchmarsh Farmland Britain: Producer Freshwater Britain: Producer and Film Editor Transmitted: BBC 1, October-November, 2007