Winner Gold Medal 2011 New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards.
Best of Festival 2011 WILDTALK AFRICA - Winner Best Environmental Film, best editing, best script, (nominated best photography) at WILDTALK AFRICA 2011 along with Good Morning Kalimantan Winner best presenter - for Chanee in our series Good Morning Kalimantan (see below).
Winner Outstanding Editing Japanes Wildlife Film Festival 2011
Finalist Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2011
Introduced and narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
Broadcast August 5th 2010 on the BBC2 Natural World.
As head of her family, Echo carried immense experience gained by her forebears over centuries. But the final test of a matriarch is whether she passes on that knowledge.
This film reflects on the life of a remarkable elephant and discovers what happens to the family, bereft of Echo’s leadership for the first time in almost half a century.
Her family have lost a strong leader and a wise mother. What lasting gifts has she has given her children - and now they are alone, will they remember her lessons?
This incredible film is set in Amboseli National park at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro and is suffering its worst drought in living memory. Echo’s families survival depends on the lessons she taught the senior members of her family. Will they survive?
This is the world of Echo, Africa’s most famous elephant, and her family. Amboseli in Southern Kenya is home to 1500 wild elephants. 58 families visit the National Park, free to come and go. Here, for nearly 40 years Echo has led her daughters and their young through times of feast and famine, poachers and predators.
6 x 30 series for BBC. This series and Radio Gibbon feature Chanee and his work in Indonesia. It will be shown around the world in 2010. This series is available to purchase through BBCWW.
In Borneo there is a radio station with a very distinctive new sound. Chanee is a young French zookeeper, turned DJ. Chanee has a passion for music and animals. He knows Borneo’s gibbons – the magical singing apes of the forest – are in danger of extinction. His answer? With the help of a famous French actress - Muriel Robin he created a gibbon sanctuary and uses the airwaves to publicise his mission.
First shown 9pm BBC2, December 10th 2009 and will be repeated on BBC 7th March 2010
A film by Mike Birkhead Associates, for the BBC2 series NATURAL WORLD, about the man behind Borneo’s favourite radio station and how it is helping to rescue, pair up and rehabilitate the singing stars of the primate family: gibbons.
Also finalist at Missoula International Wildlife film festival and Merit Award winner.
CHANEE UP FOR BEST PRESENTER AT WILD TALK AFRICA 2011.
IPPL's Adopt a Gibbon Scheme
"Non-human primates are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. From the tiny pygmy mouse lemur to the huge mountain gorilla, IPPL is the only organisation in the world working on behalf of ALL of these unique—and uniquely vulnerable—species. Please help us to tackle the problems facing our primate cousins." Click here for more info.
Nominated for 'Protection of Species' Award, 'Best Screenplay,' and 'Best Soundtrack,' at the Festival International du Film Animalier (FIFA).
In the Natural History Museum's Environment Award judges observed that "the large number of entries in this newly created category clearly reflects the growing importance of environmental issues in our world and in the media,where the topic has graduated from the fringe position it held in the not so distant past to a position of prominence. We saw an extraordinary range of subjects and styles, from major series to student films, which both inspired us and made selection difficult."
Watch the opening sequence below:
2010 is THE YEAR OF THE TIGER we are making a new film on the tiger to celebrate.
Some other tiger films made by Mike Birkhead Associates:
This film was made for Singapore National Parks Department
Watch the promo video below:
Singapore today. Almost 5 million people live and work here. The luxuriant greenery that Singapore now enjoys is no accident of nature: it’s the result of visionary investment by a far-sighted government.It took 40 years of strong political will, sweat and toil to make the vision a reality.
