Recent Credits
2024
Ocean: the Shark Whisperer
Underdog Films/Boardwalk Pictures for Netflix
1x90m: a fascinating look at the incredible life of Ocean Ramsey. The fearless free diver who will stop at nothing to shine a new light on sharks.
PD: James Reed
Underdogs
Wildstar Films/Maximum Effort for Nat Geo/Disney+
1x40m: Ryan Reynolds celebrates the weird, the ugly and the plain wrong in this fresh, funny take on wildlife.
PD: Tom Stephens
2023
Turn up the Bass
Galore Productions for Netflix
1x12m: the remarkable story of Troi Lee (aka “DJ Chinaman”), a deaf DJ and pioneer of the U.K.'s deaf rave scene.
PD: Ted Evans
Official Selection in a number of film festivals around the world.
Winner of first prize at Cinema Touching Disability Film Fest, 2024.
Nominated for best best sound in Music and Sound Award, 2024.
Finalist in Discover Film Awards, 2024.
Audience Award at Wigan and Leigh Short Film Festival, 2024.
Winner of best sound at the Serbian Film Festival, 2024.
Billy and Molly: an otter love story
Silverback Films for Nat Geo/Disney+
1x75m: an immersive, emotional resonant film celebrating love, trust and beauty, through the relationship between a man and an otter.
PD: Charlie Hamilton James
World premiere at the SXSW Festival, 2024.
European premiere at CPH:DOX, 2024.
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at San Francisco International Film. Festival, 2024.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best International Feature at Northwest Fest, 2024.
Winner of People & Nature award at Jackson Wild Media Awards 2024.
Nominated for 6 Critics Choice Documentary Awards, 2024.
Winner of 3 awards at Wildscreen 2024, including the Golden Panda award.
Nominated for 2 awards at the Televisual Bulldog Awards, 2024, including best Specialist Factual.
Planet Earth 3
BBC Studios for BBC1
1x60m: Freshwater. The third installment of this epic, landmark trilogy will be the centrepiece of the BBC centenary celebrations.
PD: Charlotte Bostock
Nominated for 6 RTS West Awards, 2024 including best Natural History Programme.
Nominated for Special factual category in RTS awards.
Nominated for 4 awards at Jackson Wild Media Awards, 2024. Including Best Series and Best Editor for Freshwater.
Nominated for Best Series at Windscreen, 2024.
Nominated for 2 awards at the Televisual Bulldog Awards, 2024, including best Specialist Factual.
2022
Turtle Walker
Emaho FIlms for Theatrical Distribution
1x75m: a dramatic retelling of the life of Satish Bhaskar - The Turtle Walker - who single-handedly pioneered sea turtle conservation in India, by walking every inch of coast on foot.
PDs: Taira Maloney, Krish Makhija
Winner of Conservation award and Grand Teton award at Jackson Wild Media Awards 2024.
World Premier at New York Doc Fest, 2024.
Nominated for Anthem Community Voice Award, 2024.
Life on Our Planet
Silverback Films/Amblin Television for Netflix
1x60m: the story of life’s epic battle to conquer and survive on planet Earth.
PD: Barny Revil.
Nominated for Best Science Docjumentary in Critics Choice Awards, 2023.
Winner of 2 RTS West Awards, 2024 including best Editing and best Natural History Programme.
Nominated for best Narrator in the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy, 2024.
Nominated for 2 Televisual Bulldog Awards, 2024.
Nominated for Best Nature Documentary in Critics Choice Real TV Awards, 2024.
Nominated for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series at Gotham TV Awards, 2024.
Living with Leopards
Wildspace for Netflix
75m: A deeply personal feature documentary following the trials and tribulations of a leopard mother raising her twin cubs.
PDs: Brad Bestelink, Alex Parkinson
Nominated for Best Feature at Jackson Wild Media Awards 2024.
Nominated for Best Natural History Documentary at The Grierson Awards, 2024.
Nominated for best music at Wildscreen, 2024.
2021
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Candid Broads for festival distribution
14m: A musical short… Amy dreams of being a musical star on the stage - but when her boss threatens to fire her from her day job, she must push her performance to a whole new level.
PD: David Buchanan
Chimp Empire
Underdog Films for Netflix
1x60m: PARADISE (1st episode) A uniquely cinematic wildlife series about two warring chimpanzee troops in the Ngogo forest, Uganda.
PD: James Reed
Paradise was nominated for the Grierson Awards 2023.
Winner of Best Limited Series and nominated for 2 further awards at Jackson Wild 2023; Paradise was nominated for Best Editing.
Nominated for 5 RTS West Awards, 2024 including best Natural History Programme.
Winner of Best Special Factual program in the RTS awards. 2024.
Nominated for best Factual Programme at the BAFTAs, 2024.
Winner of Best Editor at Wildscreen, 2024.
The Green Planet
BBC Studios for BBC1
1x60m: An epic, landmark series that puts plants front and centre, as we immerse ourselves in their hidden, secretive world for the first time.
PD: Peter Bassett
Runner-up in Specialist Factual category in Bulldog Televisual Awards, 2022
Winner of Best Limited Series at Jackson Wild Media Awards 2022.
Winner of Best Series at Wildscreen 2022.
Winner of 4 awards at RTS West 2023: best Natural History series, Sound, Cinematography and Editor.
Winner of RTS Program Award for best Science and Natural World Series, 2023.
Winner of Best Natural History programme at Grierson Awards, 2023.
Nominated for a BAFTA for best Specialist Factual series.
2020
Eulogy
Annex Films for festival distribution
6m: A short drama. Moments before his funeral, a father’s dark past threatens the fragile peace between two brothers.
PD: Matteo Willis
Played in numerous global film festivals.
Fashion Reimagined
Duck Productions/BFI for Theatrical Distribution and Sky Documentaries
90m: A feature documentary about fashion’s impact on the environment and the designer who’s trying to do something about it.
PD: Becky Hutner
Official Selection at numerous festivals including Tribeca Film Festival 2022, Sheffield Doc Fest 2022, Nantucket Film Festival 2022, Sydney Film Festival 2022 and Edinburgh Film Festival 2022.
Winner of Best Documentary at Woods Hole Film Festival 2022.
Lucy, the Human Chimp
Keo West Productions for Channel 4 and HBO Max
90m: A dramatic feature documentary exploring the extraordinary relationship between a young female student and the chimpanzeee she gave everything up for.
PD: Alex Parkinson
Nominated for Outstanding Nature Documentary at the News and Doc Emmy Awards 2022.
Nominated for 5 awards at RTS West awards 2022. Including Best Editor.
Tiny World
Plimsoll Productions for Apple TV+
1x30m ‘MEADOWS’: A blockbuster Natural History series on a tiny scale that follows the tiny heroes beneath our feet.
PD: Matt Richards
The series was nominated in multiple categories at Jackson Hole, 2021
2019
A Perfect Planet
Silverback Productions for BBC1
2x60m ‘VOLCANO’ and ‘HUMANS’: An epic five-part landmark series that is a unique fusion of blue chip natural history and earth sciences explaining how the living planet operates.
PD: Huw Cordey; Nick Jordan & Daniel Rasmussen
Humans won a ‘Golden Palm’ at the Deauville Green Film Festival, 2021
Volcano was nominated for 2 awards including Best Editor at Jackson Hole, 2021
2018
Hostile Planet
Plimsoll Productions for National Geographic Channel
1x60m ‘OCEANS’: A ground-breaking landmark Natural History series celebrating life in the world’s most extreme environments.
PD: Kirstine Davidson, Renee Godfrey
Nominated for 3 awards including Outstanding Documentary Series at the prime-time Emmys, 2019
Hostile Planet: Oceans nominated in Special Jury category for Jackson Hole, 2019
Last Breath
Met Films productions; UK theatrical release by Dogwoof; UK TX BBC Storyville; international distribution Netflix
90m: This feature-length, drama-documentary is a thrilling depiction of an impossible fight for survival, after a deep sea diver is stranded on the seabed with 5 minutes of oxygen and no hope of rescue.
Director: Alex Parkinson
Winner of 4 awards at RTS West awards, 2020 - including Best Documentary and Best Editing.
Shortlisted for Best Cinema Documentary at Grierson Awards, 2019
Audience Award at HotDocs, 2019
Longlisted for 4 awards at the BIFA, 2019 - including Best Editor
Natural World: Pangolins The World's Most Wanted Animal
BBC NHU for BBC2, PBS
60m: The story of international efforts to save the little-known pangolin, the world's most illegally trafficked animal.
PD: Victoria Bromley
Official Selection for Wildscreen Festival, 2020.
Nominated for Best Natural History Documentary at Grierson Awards, 2019
Winner of Best Natural History Programme or Series at RTS West awards, 2019.
Nominated for Best Editing at RTS West awards, 2019.
2017
Big Cats
BBC NHU for BBC1
1x60m: Using the latest technology and research, this 3-part series uncovers the secret lives of the world’s most elusive felines, bringing these animal superstars out of the shadows.
PD: Paul Williams
Nominated for 2 awards including Oustanding Nature Documentary at News and Documentary Emmy awards, 2019
Mexico: Earth’s Festival of Life
BBC NHU for BBC2
1x60m ‘MOUNTAIN WORLDS’: Landmark series revealing Mexico's astonishing wildlife, landscape and culture.
PD: Victoria Bromley, Patrick Morris
Nominated for Best Editing at RTS West awards, 2018.
2016
Rise of the Warrior Apes
Keo West for Discovery
86m: this feature-length documentary tells the stunning twenty-year story of the fierce rivalry and unparalleled ambition behind the most formidable group of chimps ever known.
PD: James Reed
Winner of Best Animal Behavior Film in the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2017.
Nominated for best Editing at Wildscreen, 2018.
Winner of 3 awards including the Golden Panda at Wildscreen, 2018
Winner of best Natural History Programme or Series at RTS West awards, 2018.
Savage Kingdom
Icon Films for Nat Geo Wild
2x60m ‘MOTHER OF LIONS’ and ‘ARMY OF DARKNESS’: This miniseries event features the most colossal clashes between rival clans of predators in an unending battle for supremacy.
PD: Brad Bestelink, Dominic Weston
Nominated for Best Limited Series in the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2017
2015
Jago: a Life Underwater
Underdog Films; UK TX BBC4; international distribution Netflix.
48m: this cinematic docudrama explores the trials and tribulations of an 80-year-old sea nomad called Rohani who has spent his life plying the waters of South East Asia’s Coral Triangle. He reflects on his life both on land and underwater.
PD: James Reed
Nominated for Best Editor at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, 2015
Winner of Grand Teton Award for the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, 2015
Nominated for Best Editor at Wildscreen, 2016
Winner of 1 award at Wildscreen, 2016
Nominated for Best Editing at RTS West, 2018
Winner of 4 awards at RTS West, 2018
Natural World: Return of Africa’s Giant Killers
Icon Films for BBC2
60m: This follow up to Africa's Giant Killers follows the elephant hunting pride during a brutally taxing year in the bloody battlegrounds of Botswana.
PD: Brad Bestelink
2014
Wild Weather with Richard Hammond
OSF for BBC1
2x60m: This three part series follows Richard Hammond as he explores weather using the latest technology and some incredible stunts to show our atmosphere as its never been shown before.
PD: Graham Booth
Nominated for Best Series at Wildscreen, 2016
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