I am a highly experienced executive producer, producer/director and writer of wildlife and environmental films. My work has won the highest accolades in the industry including a Peabody award from the University of Georgia, two Best of Festival and three Best Series awards at Jackson Wild, three Best of Festivals at IWFF Missoula, five Wildscreen pandas, a Lumiere award for Outstanding Achievement from the International 3D Society and a wide range of Emmy, BAFTA and RTS awards and nominations.

I am the director of Impala Pictures and am currently a series producer and producer/director on the ZED landmark series China’s Wild Empire II for CCTV, ARTE and Blue Ant, co-writer and consultant producer on Le cinquième rêve’s 90’ feature documentary War of the Flowers for ARTE, NDR and Terra Mater, and starting two new projects TBA. I am also a mentor and excutive producer for NEWF in Africa and recently completed work as an English content editor of Bronze Age Cilivilization, a multimedia project for the CCTV.

My career spans more than thirty five years and includes writing and directing the BBC theatrical movie Enchanted Kingdom and giant screen Wild Africa 3D and executive producing, series producing and producing/directing Europe’s Wild Kingdoms, The Future of Nature, The Age of Nature, China’s Wild Empire, Kalahari: Land of Secret Alliances, The Hidden Kingdoms of China, Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise, Mexico: Earth’s Festival of Life, Wild West, Life, Galapagos, British Isles: A Natural History, Wild Europe and Wild Africa for broadcasters including the BBC, PBS, National Geographic, CCTV, Discovery, France Televisions, ARTE, LoveNature, ORF and ZDF. I also produced, directed and wrote many highly acclaimed specials including Islands in the African Sky, Born to Run, Wings over the Serengeti, The Lions Share, Cheetah’s: The Winning Streak, Africa’s Paradise of Thorns, People of the Sea, Grizzly:Face to Face, Hokkaido: Garden of the Gods, Ospreys: The Fish Hawks, Dune and Canada: Surviving the Wild North. I was also a script consultant and field director on the Disneynature film Sea Lions of the Galapagos.

I have been a final judge at Jackson Wild, the Grierson awards, the Shanghai International TV festival and the China Wildlife Video Competition of the Year, and give numerous talks about the nature of my work.

I graduated from Leeds University with a first class honours in zoology and am an ambassador for Just a Drop, a member of BAFTA, a Vice President of Hospiscare in Devon and a mentor and executive producer with NEWF in Africa. .