40 Finalist Films

Production: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Executive Producer: Dione Gilmour
Producer: David Parer, Elizabeth Parer-Cook
Director: David Parer
Camera: David Parer, Lndsay Cupper

     Parrots and cockatoos are the most conspicuous birds in Australia. They're every where, and often in large numbers. From the dense rainforests of the tropical north to the cold, wind-swept coast of Southern Australia and the arid deserts of the interior, every region is inhabited by parrots. "Australia: Land of Parrots" explores the diverse & spectacular life of parrots & cockatoos across the varied landscapes of the island continent. Inhospitable forces of nature-cyclones, drought, flood & fire-shape their life as do humans who unwittingly offer food & water in abundance.

Production: NHU AFRICA
Executive Producer: Sophie Vartan
Producer: Sophie Vartan
Director: Johan Vermeulen
Camera: Johan Vermeulen

     The Kalahari Desert is a vast area of land that stretches from South Africa's Orange River northwards, for more than 2,5 million square kilometres, an area ten times the size of Great Britain. The name Kalahari conjures up images of bleak, parched landscapes with animals struggling for survival of days of unrelenting heat and nights of bitter cold. And yet it is also a land of the most exquisite beauty and delicate life forms, both animal and plant, all of which have had to adapt in order to survive the rugged weather patterns and harsh conditions.
     The stories of many of these creatures, large and small, are well known and documented, but there is one about whom less is known than most. It is one of the smaller animals, but also one of the most appealing in terms of it's appearance, intelligence, amusing habits and eating styles. It is the Cape Ground Squirrel. Small, cheeky, endearing, low down on the food-chain, and incredibly tough, the Ground Squirrels have had to adapt more than most in order to survive in the Kalahari. In this documentary we follow the fortunes of a small sisterhood of Squirrels, led by Scarlet, a shrewd, tough little lady who is very adept at surviving in the harsh Kalahari conditions and has gained the respect of the others in the group. The others are Lucinda, a feisty, determined little creature; Rosy, always first in line for a feed and Molly, one of Scarlet's daughters who has an insatiable curiosity that often lands her in trouble.
     They live in a network of burrows deep in the heart of the Kalahari and every day is a fight for survival. The constant threat from snakes, birds of prey, not to mention larger predators, means that ground Squirrels need to be constantly alert. Letting their guard down for a moment could have deadly consequences. Then there is the heat and the drought. Survival is all about adaptability and we see the almost miraculous ways in which these tiny creatures have figured out how to live in this remote part of the world. It is an uplifting story with moments of bleak hardship and struggle, balanced against other times of sheer joy and delight as these characterful little creatures go about their daily routines. Beautifully filmed and simply told, it is a story that will endear itself to young and old alike.

Production: LIQUID MOTION FILM
Executive Producer: Anita Chaumette
Producer: Anita Chaumette
Director: Guy Chaumette
Camera: Guy Chaumette, Anita Chaumette

     In a world ruled by colour, marine animals have adapted to the underwater blues, by changing colour themselves - and, by changing colour... itself.
     Revealing mind-blowing behaviour never seen or filmed before, astonishing images new to science and extraordinary phenomena, still far from understood, "Beyond the Blue" is a sensational world premiere, exploring the magic of underwater fluorescence and the inconceivable ability of marine animals to change one colour, into another.

Production: nautilusfilm GmbH
Executive Producer: Udo A. Zimmermann
Producer: Jan Haft
Director: Jan Haft
Camera: Jan Haft, Kay Ziesenhenne, Rolf Steinmann

     The Crayfish in the Jam Jar is an authentic and intimate portrait of a habitat, its wildlife and a man who has lived here all his life. When he was a boy, he caught fish and crayfish in jam jars and started to thoroughly observe the valleys unique nature and all the changes that came as time went by. Because agriculture in the Isen Valley still is often carried out on small parcels of land and some farmers still do not use pesticides and chemical fertilizers there is plenty of wildlife in this small unknown paradise. Located in Southern Germany, the valley of the river Isen is a not only unusually species-rich but also a beautiful landscape formed by the glaciers of the last ice age.

Production: Camera Q
Producer: Stefan Quinth
Director: Stefan Quinth
Camera: Stefan Quinth

     How can a creature as large as the brown bear dig a hole in the ground in the fall, sleep for six months, and then wake up in the spring and emerge from the den just as strong and active as they were when they entered? For years researches around the world have been intrigued by the bears' winter sleep. Understanding the bear's body function might give us clues to preventing muscle atrophy, something that would benefit people on bed rest or even astronauts during extended space travel. What secrets do bears possess?

Production: Giant Screen Films, Yes/No Productions
Producer: Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas
Director: Don Kempf, Steve Kempf, David Marks
Camera: Reed Smoot, D.J.Roller

     Wild Ocean is an explosive, symphonic giant screen film about man and nature that captures one of the world's greatest spectacles. Each year a massive feeding frenzy takes place in the oceans of South Africa as billions of fish migrate up the KwaZulu-Natal Wild Coast. Breaching whales, frenzied sharks, herding dolphins, and diving gannets compete in an epic underwater struggle for survival.

Production: NDR Naturfilm
Executive Producer: Jvrn Rvver
Producer: Tom Synnatzschke
Director: Oliver Goetzl
Camera: Ivo Nvrenberg

     Finland's wilderness hides a secret - A dark shadow in the trees, that has spawned a comic book legend. This X-creature is a wolverine, a power-packed predator with a legendary reputation. Tracker and photographer, Antti Leinonen, has spent 19 years in the forests of Finland and he built up a surprising picture of a fragile wild community. He used every trick going to capture a new side to these mysterious creatures a side that most of us can only dream of ever seeing playful, shy and extremely vulnerable. Through his amazing access this programme is the first to be shot totally in the wild and is in high definition. It's time to reveal the truth about Wolverine X.

Production: RSPB Film Unit
Producer: Mark Percival
Camera: Toby Hough

     'Waterlands' is a lyrical film capturing the majesty of some of the UK's most dramatic wildlife spectacles, together with intimate footage of some of Britain's rarest wetland birds. Filmed over three years, 'Waterlands' demonstrates that predictions of a chaotic climate in the future do not have to mean bad news for wetland wildlife and habitats.

Production: Begg Nature Productions
Producer: David Hughes, Carol Hughes
Director: Keith Begg, Colleen Begg
Camera: Keith Begg, Colleen Begg

     A husband and wife team (Keith & Colleen Begg) set out for the remote regions of northern Mozambique to continue studying and filming a feisty little beast: the honey badger. They know their subject well, having spent three years in the Kalahari Desert working with them. The honey badger has lived up to it's reputation as a fearless fighter and eater of venomous snakes. Now the Begg's want to find out how honey badgers behave in a very different setting: in the African bush. They also hope to film the mythic tale of the honeyguide bird that leads the badger to bee hives for their mutual benefit.
     Naturalists, explorers and indigenous people all confirm this partnership but scientists won't credit it; visual proof is needed and the Beggs hope to film it. But nothing works out as planned: special traps catch everything except badgers: hyenas, civets and furious leopards. And, once caught, badgers are almost impossible to follow through impenetrable bush. The film that gradually emerges is a blend of the misadventures of this plucky pair and the poignant, often humorous relationship that develops between them and the indigenous people, Niassa's other honey hunters. Everything in this unusual film really happens and is filmed only by themselves.

Production: Feodor Pitcairn
Executive Producer: Mark Wild
Director: Joe Kennedy
Camera: Feodor Pitcairn, Bob Crawston

     The evocative 72 minute feature film Ocean Voyagers explores the familiar themes of motherhood and parenting in a world as unfamiliar as it is breathtaking. Featuring a precocious newborn humpback calf and his enormous 40 ton mother, we are taken on a journey of discovery into their world. A five year labor of love shot entirely in High Definition on location in French Polynesia, Hawaii, Alaska, Newfoundland. The Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine, the resulting footage of these elusive animals is as eloquently beautiful as it is luminously detailed.

Production: Andrew Cooper Productions
Executive Producer: Tim Martin
Producer: Andrew Cooper
Director: Andrew Cooper
Camera: Mark Payne-Gill, Andrew Cooper, David Manford, Jonathan Watts

     The British badger is the most sociable of its kind in the world. Although the Eurasian badger is found from the UK to Japan, only in Britain do they live in such large groups. Now for the first time, using high resolution, infra red technology, we are able to paint an amazing picture based on the latest research. We reveal the secrets of their success as we spy on them, big brother style with hidden cameras deep underground. These are wild badgers as never seen before.

Production: Sea Studios Foundation
Executive Producer: Kathleen Frith
Producer: Mark Shelley
Director: Drew Takahashi
Animator: Gesine Kratzner

     Told through the unique voice of Academy-Award winner Linda Hunt, Once Upon a Tide is set in a time, not unlike our own, when a spell has been cast causing people to forget about the ocean and its importance to our lives. With this backdrop, we meet a young girl who is traveling to the ocean for the first time. Led by her, we embark on a fantastic journey, where orcas swim through corn fields, scientists talk in rhyme, and the power of dreams helps her, and the audience, discover how the ocean touches all parts of our Earth and nurtures our existence.

Production: National Geographic Television
Executive Producer: Keenan Smart
Producer: Sue Houghton
Director: Sue Houghton
Camera: Ernie Kovacs

     Supported by the National Geographic Society, the world's eminent blue whale scientists embark on a revolutionary mission: they'll find, identify and tag California blue whales, use the DNA samples to confirm the sex of indivisual whales, then rejoin the massive creatures' stunning migration when they collect at a chimera known as the Costa Rica Dome. These experts have observed, firsthand, courtship behavior among the whales at the moving mass of krill and currents 500 miles off the coast of Costa Rica. Now they hope to find - and record - the Holy Grail of blue whale science... the breeding and calving ground of the biggest mammals in the sea.

Production: Aquavision TV Productions
Executive Producer: Kathryn Pasternak
Producer: Bronwyn Watkins, Peter Lamberti
Camera: Herbert Brauer

     On Zambia Liuwa Plains, two star-crossed spotted hyenas begin their lives. A little female we have named Nasanta, and a male we named Twaambo, are born to warring rival clans. In the female dominated hierarchy of spotted hyena society, males are doomed to harassment, abuse and rejection by their clan; whilst females fight for rank in a comparatively charmed existence. We watch as Twaambo and Nasanta, grow up worlds apart because of this unique dynamic, as their clan struggle for food and territory in the extreme Liuwa environment. Desperate drought, raging fires, relentless flooding and territorial warfare are just a few of the challenges Twaambo and Nasanta clans must overcome, as the cubs grow to adulthood in the Realm of the Bonecrushers.

Production: Aquavision TV Productions
Executive Producer: Kathryn Pasternak
Producer: Billi-Jean Parker, Peter Lamberti
Camera: Peter Lamberti

     Fast and efficient, an ocean legion is on the move. Growing in momentum, single pods congregate with the single focus of finding food. Combining in battalions over 3000 strong, they become an unbeatable force. This is the Dolphin Army.
     Filmed over 3 years during the spectacular Sardine Run in South Africa, Peter Lamberti and his team have managed to film one of the fastest predators in the ocean - the Common Dolphin.
     Utilizing the latest underwater technology, we follow a small female pod as they battle shark threats; raise their calves and journey towards the greatest feeding opportunity in the ocean. Living life in the fast lane - this is the Dolphin Army.

Production: Loke Film
Executive Producer: Petra Boden, Mette Hoffmann Meyer
Producer: Adam Schmedes
Director: Adam Schmedes
Camera: Adam Schmedes, Toby Strong, Frey Schmedes

     The film follows two chameleons out of a threatened population of only 300, living by a lagoon in Greece. The aim is to experience what a chameleon life is and to explore never before filmed behavior such as a swimming chameleon. But living on this beautiful Greek beach, which is also a growing tourist destination, is not without risks. Natural enemies are snakes, birds, scorpions and the climate; low winter temperatures and divesting sandstorms. But the real danger is the confrontation with man, their waste attracting rats, the 4x4 wheelers riding the dunes and even regular thieves steeling chameleons.

Production: BBC (Natural History Unit)
Executive Producer: Tim Martin
Producer: Steve Greenwood
Direcotr: Annie Backhouse, Lou Ferguson, Jonny Young
Camera: Gordon Buchanan, Justine Evans, Graham MacFarlane, Johnny Rogers

     A new series combining stunning wildlife with high octane adventure as a team of explorers searches the depths of the last great unspoilt jungle wilderness on the planet. Guyana, nestled between Venezuela and Brazil, is a little known country covered in an extraordinary jungle. It is a land of giants - huge anaconda, the world's largest tarantula, and giant otters all make their home here. After the team set up basecamp, Gordon Buchanan goes in search of the elusive jaguar, while Steve Backshall abseils down one of the most powerful waterfalls on the planet to survey the creatures living by the plunge pool. Justine Evans climbs to the top of the rainforest trees in search of monkeys and macaws whilst bug expert George McGavin explores rotten logs for whip spiders - the perfect predator of the underworld. The cameras follow the team every sweaty step of the way as they search for the evidence that may help preserve this last great jungle wilderness forever.

Production: KBS
Executive Producer: Lee Jangjong
Producer: Cho Inseog
Director: Shin Dongman
Camera: Kim Seungmin

     A nationwide campaign in the 1960's and 1970's to exterminate rats with rat poison had unintended results. Many eagle owls that fed on rats have disappeared, although the population of eagle owl is increasing recently.
     The eagle owl is the silent raider, the commander and greatest predator of the night in Korea. What makes the eagle owls successful in hunting the rats, hares and other mammals? With high-speed cameras, the documentary aims to discover their secret hunting mechanism through scientific research.
     Such peculiarities and characteristics of the eagle owl have been captured in Dynamic HD filming.

Production: AVS LTD
Producer: Geza Detari
Director: Zoltan Szalkai
Camera: Zoltan Szalkai

     The film shows the seasonal migration of a Khanty family from their summer campsite to their winter campsite. The family uses Russian to talk with strangers, but use their Finno-Ugrian mother tongue among themselves. Small languages and dialects are disappearing at an alarming pace throughout the world. Khanty, one of the many endangered languages, is spoken in the film.
     The film offers a glimpse into the daily life of the Khanty reindeer herders, the dangerous winter migration, and their concerns. The camera becomes their friend with whom they talk and through it speak to the viewer. This intimacy enables a better understanding of their life.

Production: Studio Hamburg Produktion/NDR Naturfilm
Executive Producer: Jvrn Rvver
Producer: Britta Kiesewetter, Katja Gennat
Director: Daniel Opitz
Camera: Florian Melzer, Daniel Opitz, Jason Sturgis

     We will embark on a quest to understand what information Humpbacks might be conveying to each other through their songs. By spending 6 month in the field with three of the leading Humpback experts we try to decode the secret language of these magnificent whales. Follow us to their mating grounds, right in the centre of the Pacific Ocean off the tropical island of Maui/Hawaii.

Production: Studio Hamburg Produktion/NDR Naturfilm
Executive Producer: Jvrn Rvver
Producer: Britta Kiesewetter
Director: Thomas Behrend
Camera: Thomas Behrend, Uwe Anders, Roland Gockel, Christina Karliczek

     With a weight of almost a ton and a height of 2.5 metres, it is the biggest land-based predator of our planet: the polar bear. Its hunting grounds are the region around the North Pole - not firm ground, but a world of ice. In this seemingly endless biosphere, the polar bear rules undisputed. No other animal is able to stand up to this huge bear, which without a doubt is the "King of the Arctic". This fact and its well-defined social life make the polar bear a natural choice to star in a nature documentary.

Production: Talking Pictures/Off The Fence
Executive Producer: Ellen Windemuth
Producer: Garth Lucas, Ann Strimling
Director: Joe Kennedy
Camera: Bob Cranston, Hansa Winshaw

     The discovery of what native Mauritian diver and keen naturalist Hugues Vitry calls Shark Pits is the origin of many unanswered questions about the unusual behaviour of the sharks that occur in underground caves off the coast of Mauritius. Why do dozens of sharks aggregate in these pits? Why is their behaviour so atypical here? In a bid to answer these questions, Hugues teams up with scientist Ryan Johnson and we join them as they enter the underwater world of Mauritius to explore the Secret Shark Pits.

Production: KVIK Film Productions
Executive Producer: Pall Steingrimsson
Producer: Pall Steingrimsson
Director: Pall Steingrimsson
Camera: Fridthjofur Helgason

     Nowhere in the world is there access to study the varied behaviour of water like in Iceland. The tremendous open North Atlantic, numerous lakes, roaring waterfalls, clear rivers and muddy glacier rivers, which flood large areas when frequent eruptions occur under the glaciers. Vatnajvkull is the biggest glacier in Europe with numerous icecaves. Geothermal areas, hot mudpools and geysers. This has encouraged us to concentrate on Iceland in a film about this remarkable element.

Production: Tigress Productions
Executive Producer: Jeremy Bradshaw, Fred Kaufman
Producer: Linda Bell
Director: David Allen
Camera: Simon de Glanville

     The compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a huge silverback called Titus. Born in 1967, Titus should have died when his father was murdered by poachers and his mother abandoned him. Using testament from eyewitnesses, the film relives one individual mountain gorilla's extraordinary struggle for survival over 30 years to the present day in a unique format.

Production: Ocean Pix
Executive Producer: Ralf Kiefner
Director: Ralf Kiefner, Peter Spielmann
Camera: Andrea Ramalho, Ralf Kiefner

     Every winter a nature extravaganza takes place in the waters of South Africa. At the Agulhas Bank a parade of sardines starts moving north along the east coast. Millions of sardines gather in shoals of thousands and are followed by a plethora of hungry predators: dolphins, birds, sharks, game fish, seals, whales and man. Dolphins work together to split up pockets of sardines from the main shoal and push them closer to the surface. These sardines shape into a bait ball that performs a deadly ballet in which all hunters take part excitedly, while man waits at the beach with his nets.

Production: Yasuo Hotta (Euglena)
Executive Producer: Yasuo Hotta
Producer: Yasuo Hotta
Director: Yasuo Hotta
Camera: Yasuo Hotta

     The bell animacule is an animal which has a bell-shaped cell at the top of its stem. Some groups of them are as big as 5 millimeters. They are rooted on waterweeds. The scenes that they make current to gather bacteria by moving their cilium, coil its own stems and split into two for propagation are surprising. You will be amazed by how a group of bell animacules move. We introduce the vorticella's unknown world. It is unique and filled with wonder.

Production: Off The Fence and Blue Paw Artists
Executive Producer: Windemuth, Pete Venn, Mark Wild, Ben Kelly
Producer: Marion Pollmann
Director: Peter Hayden
Camera: Rainer Bergomaz

     What would happen if the world were suddenly without people, if humans vanished off the face of the earth? How would nature react - and how swiftly? This is science fact, not fiction. This habitat is REAL. The film takes place at the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, hastily abandoned by panic-stricken humans 20 years ago. On April 25/26th 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant located 80 miles north of Kiev in the former USSR (now Ukraine) lost control of one of its 4 reactors. At 1:23am the resulting chain reaction created a series of explosions. A devastating fireball blew off the reactor's heavy steel and concrete lid. In the immediate aftermath more than 30 died. Highly radioactive fall-out flooded everything within a 20-mile radius: 35,000 cattle and 135,000 people had to be evacuated. Only wild animals remained. While humans have made life in this land impossible for themselves, animals have found a way. They have not just survived: they have thrived.

Production: Gekko Studio
Producer: Rizadi Siagian, Nanang Sujana
Director: Rizadi Siagian, Nanang Sujana
Camera: Nanang Sujana, Een Irawan putra, Yudi Nofiandi

     My Forest Tears is a short documentary using ethnography music, poem and video to tell the story about Indonesian forest. The wonderful tropical rain forest, wildlife and a harmony of the nature, after a massive exploitation of Indonesian forest in the last decade, illegal logging, large scale plantation, and mining put Indonesian forest endangered, and now many Indonesian people got the impact from the series flood disaster.

Production: Vesilind
Executive Producer: Riho Vastrik
Producer: Riho Vastrik
Director: Vasili Sarana
Camera: Vasili Sarana

     Northern-America have by now formed a population of several thousand head, providing population material for other Arctic areas as well.
     The film crew sets out to search for musk oxen in their new home at the northern tip of the Taimyr Peninsula in order to thoroughly get to know these bison-like animals. While following the trail of the musk ox along the northernmost latitudes of Eurasia, the crew also meets other inhabitants of these areas.

Production: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Executive Producer: Michael Allder
Producer: Mark Johnston, Barbara Barde
Director: Mark Johnston
Camera: Mike Boland

     Dr. Mark Winston of Vancouver Simon Fraser University tries to unravel the mystery of bee communication. In the golden fields outside of Winnipeg, we see the true interaction of the scientist and the artist with their bee partners. Winston creates his own art and places it into the hives. This film goes into the heart of Aganetha's beehives to follow the behaviour of the bees as they respond to the pheromones and help create the sculptures for Dyck and Winston. This film examines the secrets of the hive that have tantalized us since humans first tasted honey.

Production: Toyama Television Broadcasting
Executive Producer: Masafumi Nagae
Producer: Yoshimitu Maetani
Director: Masaru Fukushima
Camera: Hiroyuki Miyata

     Murododaira, located in the bosom of ranges of Tateyama mountains which are three thousand kilometers high in average, has the densest habit of ptarmigan in Japan. Cameras were not set around the bird's nests. Through a whole year in the symbol of Toyama prefecture as rich nature, this film was taken by camera man's hands through his eyes to let us realize the distance that should be taken between nature and humans.

Production: Peach Blossom Media Pte. Ltd., Elemantree Media LLP
Executive Producer: Karen Tang
Producer: Lim Linli
Director: Ric Borja, Jin Pyn Lee

     Set uniquely in black and orchestrated in a tuneful rhythm, The Elephant and the Tree is a deceptively simple animation about the endearing friendship between an Asian elephant and a tree, with a dose of reality and a strong conservation theme.

Production: Mike Birkhead Associates
Executive Producer: Tim Martin
Producer: Mike Birkhead
Director: Mike Birkhead
Camera: Martyn Colbeck

     A group of endangered desert-dwelling elephants roams the oldest desert on earth. Extraordinary in their endurance, the small families make marathon treks across the remote northwest of Namibia, traversing some of the most dramatic, arid and austere scenery in the world. Following a poaching holocaust in the 1980's, only three remained. Now that large-scale poaching has ended, every single calf is vital. Himba and Dusty are born in a boom year, but when the short-lived rivers on which they rely disappear underground, their lives depend on the memories, experience and decisions of the females who lead their tiny families.

Production: NHK
Executive Producer: Toshihiro Matsumoto
Director: Atsushi Nishida
Camera: Masami Watanabe, Daisuke Soma

     The arctic pole is in the middle of devastating crisis. 7.5 million square kilometers of the ice marked its smallest size in recorded history in 2007. Animals are suffering from this change. Polar bears are on the top of ecosystem in this area, but now, they are on the verge of extinction. Scientists suggest the possibility of the vicious cycle that the ice could melt away faster than ever if more of the ice disappeared. This movie depicts the change of the arctic pole in Greenland, North Pole and Svalbard Islands.

Production: MOEZ
Executive Producer: MOEZ
Producer: MOEZ
Director: MOEZ
Camera: MOEZ

     Green is the story of a female orangutan victim of deforestation in Indonesia. This poetical film on the beauty of the forest and the ugliness of its destruction, invites us to measure our part of responsibility.

Production: 360 DEGREE FILMS
Producer: Sally Ingleton
Director: Sally Ingleton
Camera: Phillip Bull

     Seed Hunter is a highly entertaining one-hour documentary about a topic that is vital for the future of planet - finding seeds that may help save the world from its greatest ever crisis - a global food shortage brought about by human-induced climate change.

Production: Dalian TV Station
Executive Producer: Li Rujian
Producer: Li Rujian
Director: Li Rujian, Zheng Shen
Camera: Li Rujian, Zheng Shen

     This is a story of a war between a mallard and a farmer, a battle contending for food by tens of thousands of mallands on a large stretch of farmland. There migrating brids come here from south in spring. In due fall, they refuge from on northen uplands. On their way to the south, they eat up all the ripe rice in the farmlands. The battle lasts from the spring to the fall between birds and men who wants to protect this crops.

Production: CCTV
Producer: Wei Bin
Director: Chen xiao qing, Li xiao dong
Camera: meng Xiao cheng

     The Tarim River is known as the Mother River to the people of Southern Xinjiang. Along its banks lies the only expanse of greenery in the desert where diversifolious poplars and other desert plants form a green barrier halting the expansion of desert. The story tells this though and stalwart plant and the miracle it has achieved. It also reminds us of the problems confronting us in our own living environment.

Production: Mountainside Films
Executive Producer: Suzanne Chisholm
Producer: Suzanne Chisholm
Director: Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit
Camera: Michael Parfit, Suzanne Chisholm

     Luna, a wild baby killer whale, get separated from his family in a remote Canadian fjord and seeks friendship from people. When officials try to stop him, his life becomes a saga of conflict, loneliness, sorrow and love.

Production: Big Wave Productions
Executive Producer: Sarah Cunliffe
Producer: Emma Ross
Director: Emma Ross
Camera: Rory McGuinness, Malcolm Ludgate, Joel Peterson

     At 12 meters long, the whale shark is the largest living fish in the world yet for all its size almost nothing is known about its life. Australian shark biologist, Dr. Mark Meekan wants to change all that. Employing the latest satellite tracking and shark-cam technology he plans to follow 6 whale sharks every move. If all goes to plan, he could solve one of the ocean's great mysteries.