Tshepo Phokoje
Tshepo Phokoje is a female Nature & Wildlife Photographer currently based in Selibe Phikwe, Botswana. She is the Director of Vixen Excursions (Pty) Ltd and the photographer under the Vixen Photography brand, whose works includes and are not limited to nature and wildlife, minimalist photography, landscape. She also likes to capture moments shared by people […]
Wanda Von Bremen
Wanda von Bremen is a visual artist, photographer and ecologist investigating new visual communication strategies on how to transformatively address the most pressing ecological questions of our time. Her art work wishes to form a new and profound appreciation for nature that will raise interest in its conservation, create awareness and unveiling that every organism […]
Traci Kwaai
Traci Kwaai is a 6th generation fisher child from Kalk Bay and an activist. She leads the impactful and powerful “walk of remembrance “ which cover a the rich history of her community of Kalk bay and the marginalisation of the the fishers combined with story telling. Traci fell in love with the ocean at […]
Tessa Barlin
Tessa Barlin is an environmental documentary filmmaker, photographer, divemaster and National Geographic Explorer with a passion for preserving the natural world and inspiring a diverse range of audiences to care for the environment. She has a postgraduate degree in documentary filmmaking and has to date, shot three multi-award-winning short films. In 2021, Tessa was awarded […]
Surabhi Nadig Surendra
Surabhi is an Indian writer and visual artist based in Helsinki. She moved to Finland for an MA in Creative Sustainability (design) from Aalto University, produced a dissertation which drew from 9 concepts of ecofeminism and degrowth. To her the medium of photography functions as a tool for research-based storytelling, self-reflection, and connecting to surrounding […]
Tendai Marima
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Tendai Marima has degrees from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and Goldsmiths College, (University of London), UK. With experience covering East and Southern Africa, Tendai has over 5 years of professional journalistic experience. From South Sudan to South Africa, she has travelled the region covering a diversity of […]
Simangele Sithole
Simangele is an ecologist, conservationist, wildlife photographer, aspiring filmmaker and a divemaster. She makes use of her privilege; to be situated in the vicinity of earth’s greatest natural treasures to share her view of the natural environment with those who either have limited access or have a different perspective to hers through research and her […]
Rajaâ Khenoussi
Rajaâ is a member of the African Photojournalism Database, currently living in Tangier Morocco . It all started some years ago, 2013 specifically, when she began observing and capturing light on daily objects and subjects around her. Since then photography became her passion and slowly she discovered it was her most comfortable medium of communication […]
Ruth Niyonkuru
I am very simple girl who loves her family and photography very much. My friends and my family are my life…In my life there are so many important people and a few who are so important that a single day without them is very difficult, people like my two sisters and my best friend… my […]
Pusetso Motshwaedi
Based in Kasane, Botswana, Pusetso is a wildlife photographer and photographic host/instructor at Pangolin Photo Safaris. Nature is her love and having the opportunity to have the bush as her office is truly a dream come true.
Mireille Coulon
Born in 1958 in Provence, in a family of mountaineering adventurers, nature, and the mountains in particular have always been a big part of Mireille’s life. As her father was an amateur filmmaker and photographer, she naturally started photography as a teenager with a particular liking for graphics and materials in nature. Landscapes, flora and […]
Nancy Joan Gichuhi
Nancy is a wildlife conservationist who loves nature and the nurturing from wildlife. She is currently studying a bachelor of science, wildlife management and conservation at the university of Nairobi.
Millie Marsden
Millie is an Assistant Producer working in wildlife filmmaking. Most recently she has been working on a series for National Geographic called ‘Queens’. This series celebrates femininity not only within the animal world, but also in the craft of creating beautiful films that capture animals in a whole new light.
Michaela Skovranova
Michaela Skovranova is an Australia-based artist working in the field of photography and film. Her work has focused on capturing intimate environmental and human stories – from documenting coral reefs and Great Barrier Reef restoration for National Geographic, The Great Australian Bight for Greenpeace and the aftermath of Australian Bushfires for TIME Magazine. She completed […]
Michelle Donde
Michelle is a photographer and filmmaker from Nairobi, Kenya. Her passion has always stemmed from her drive to tell stories. From a young age, she took up writing creative pieces. This developed into a love for photography; telling stories through a lens, which led her to her career in filmmaking. Her primary skills lie in […]
Martha Mutiso
A Kenyan nature and wildlife emerging filmmaker who brings conservation stories closer to the public through her work. Martha is also a tour guide with a passion for macro photography. Through tour guiding and environmental education, Martha shows local and international travelers the beauty of our planet and highlights why it’s important to protect it.
Katya Ignatiev
Currently finishing studying an MA in Wildlife Filmmaking at UWE in Bristol, Katya hopes get stuck in the wildlife film and photography industry. She aspires to be a wildlife camerawoman, specialising in long lens camerawork and drone. She previously lived and worked in India as a wildlife ranger and safari guide, for a company called […]
Kimerudi Mostwai
Kimerudi is a filmmaker, photographer, freediver and scuba divemaster from Cape Town, South Africa. Her filmmaking skills include cinematography, directing, colour grading, data wrangling, animation and writing to name a few. Her first love however, has always been the camera. Her ultimate goal is to become an extraordinary wildlife and ocean storyteller, who inspires black […]
Katie Grant
Based in Bristol, in the UK, Katie’s passion for wildlife from a young age led her to study Zoology at University. Since then she has gained an intimate understanding of animal behaviour whilst working in wildlife rehabilitation; earning animals’ trust when they are at their most vulnerable. She uses photography as a tool to help […]
Erica Rugabandana
Erica Francis Rugabandana has a background in wildlife management and community development. She has a wide range of knowledge and experience working with NGOs in Tanzania as a film producer. She is a graduate of Mount Meru University with Hon. Master of Arts in Community Development and has an Advanced Diploma in Wildlife Management from […]
Aljohara Jeje
What is art without a message? As long as Aljohara can remember she has been a woman and artist. Enraptured by techniques, she graduated in Product Design and later in Art-Photography in Europe. Aljohara also learnt about medieval artistry techniques (in China and in Portugal). Enjoying Saudi Arabia’s vibrant society and convinced that its culture […]
Elise Gibbins
Elise is a topside and underwater filmmaker and photographer, specialising in content driven campaigns, both for natural history and commercial projects. A passion for highlighting endangered ecosystems, Elise connects audiences to nature’s significance and humanity’s relationship with it. She harnesses cinematography to drive awareness and has worked with NGO’s and commercial enterprises who are motivated […]
Alice Whitehouse
Alice Whitehouse is a filmmaker, photographer and National Geographic Explorer from the UK. With an interest in conservation stories, Alice is currently working on a personal project – a documentary series about the European Green Belt entitled “Rewilding the Iron Curtain.”
Aishwarya Sridhar
Aishwarya Sridhar is a National Geographic Explorer, Girls Who Click Ambassador and Canon EOS influencer. Her work largely revolves around using the visual medium media to create positive conservation impact. An Emerging Fellow at the International League of Conservation Photographers, she has been working towards policy protection for wetlands using the visual medium. Her debut […]
Aletta Harrison
Aletta Harrison is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker and part-time educator with a passion for the environment and conservation storytelling. With a background in news, she spent 10 years living and working in Cape Town before moving to the UK in 2020. She teaches television and digital journalism at the University of Kent and is exploring […]
Onke Dumeko
Head of Operations at NFVF
Nadine Angel Cloete
Head of production and development of non-fiction at the NFVF
Catherine Nadin
Sea Search Research Team
Dr. Juliet Karisa
Marine Research Scientist at Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI)
Dr. Paula Kahumbu
C.E.O of Wildlife Direct
Erica Rugabandana
Wildlife documentary director and producer, Founder of SIIMA Media
Dr Liani Maasdorp
Senior lecturer in The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Centre for Film & Media Studies
Dr Tess Gridley
Co-Founder of Sea Search Research
Thihangwi Ramutsindela
MA student in wildlife documentary and nature conservation at UCT
Roman Cuilla
Roman is a director, producer, story board artist and globally-recognised expert in cinematic composition. He leads talented crews to create memorable imagery for narrative and commercial projects through the platform ‘Film Reframed’.
Yolanda Ncokotwana
Head of Industry Development at the NFVF
Rachel Probert
Sea Search Research Team
Erin Ross Marsh
Sea Search Research Team
Paul Zimic
Paul Zimic (Producer, Battlejoy Inc.) began his work in the movie business at the age of 14 working as an usher in his hometown movie theatre. Moving to Toronto his first job was an advertising media buyer for Twentieth Century Fox. Over the next 10 years, Paul enriched his passion for movies in the sales and marketing departments […]
Benjamin Sarfati
Benjamin Sarfati is co-founder and partner at Intervista, a French law firm heavily involved in the movie industry sector in France. His daily practice of commercial litigation and arbitration offers a deep insight of the mechanics of conflict. Over the past decade, he has been increasingly active as a mediator and conciliator, so that he became a specialist […]
Faith Briggs
Faith is a creative producer passionate about sharing contemporary stories from diverse communities. She is a self-described “professional nerd” whose day jobs have ranged from outdoor educator to barista, to working at Discovery Communications. Faith believes that artists have a responsibility to provoke the social conscience of a society. It is her desire to create nuanced work […]
Anne de Malleray
Born in 1984, and trained in philosophy and journalism, Anne de Malleray is chief editor of Billebaude, a trans-disciplinary publication housed by Fondation François Sommer and the Hunting and Nature Museum, bringing together social and human sciences, life sciences, art and practitioners’ stories to explore past and present relationships between humans and wildlife. She curates […]
Astrid Roussel-Olive
Astrid ROUSSEL-OLIVE is a French Attorney-at-Law. After a “Licence” from the University of Paris II Assas, a “Maitrise en Droit” (French JD) from the University Paris I Sorbonne, and a “DESS” (French Master degree) in Civil, Employment and Healthcare Law, from the University of Paris I Sorbonne and Paris XII Sceaux, she passed the Bar […]
Anne Innis Dagg
Anne Innis Dagg is a pioneer, groundbreaking scientist, underdog, animal rights activist, feminist, teacher and mother. The youngest child of academics Harold Innis and Mary Quayle Innis, Anne has received worldwide recognition for her work with giraffes, becoming not only the first person to study giraffe behaviour in the wild, but also the first person to […]
Sophie Lanfear
Sophie Lanfear studied Psychology/Zoology BSc at Bristol University before becoming an Emmy award winning wildlife filmmaker. Sophie has worked across a wide variety of wildlife television outputs before deciding to specialize on the Attenborough narrated, landmark series. Sophie produced and directed the “Frozen Worlds” episode of “Our Planet” for which she won an Emmy award. […]
Bénédicte Meillon
Bénédicte Meillon is Associate Professor at the University of Perpignan, where she teaches literature and literary translation. She runs the ecocriticism and ecopoetics research group at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia and has organized two international conferences in Perpignan “Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth” June 2016, and “Reenchanting Urban Wildness: To […]
Vinciane Despret
Vinciane Despret is passionate about ethology and has made it the subject of her research for many years. Some of her earliest research dates back to 1996, studying birds in Birth of an ethological theory: the dance of the flaked craterop and then undertaking a thesis on emotions that would become the subject of two […]
Valerie Chansigaud
Valérie Chansigaud studies the history of the relationship between the human species and nature. Combining the history of science, cultural history and environmental history, her work focuses on the impact of man on his environment, cultural sensitivity to environmental issues and the parallel between man’s domination over nature and man’s domination over man. A specialist […]
Claudia Casper
Claudia Casper is the author of four novels. Her most recent, The Mercy Journals, a post climate change, post apocalyptic, story about murder, memory, and the evolution of the new, won the 2017 Philip K. Dick Award for distinguished science fiction. Human evolution is a driving theme in all her work, starting with her best […]
Vanessa Berlowitz
Vanessa Berlowitz co-founded Wildstar Films in 2018 after 28 years of running teams and making award winning wildlife films and documentaries. She is currently an Executive Producer on a number of new series for National Geographic Channel and is working on a film with her husband, Mark Linfield, for Disneynature. Vanessa spent the first 24 years […]
Anne Lapied
Anne was born in 1959, far from the Alps. She discovered the mountains at a young age and knew very quickly that she would spend her life there. She started photography at the age of 7 and, 50 years later, still enjoys looking through her images after a day of shooting. She is co-director of […]
Michelle Bruce
With over 25 years of experience, Michelle Bruce is a highly respected business affairs consultant, specializing in the provision of production, distribution and broadcast advice to the global television industry. Through her consultancy Belle Vie TV, she has supported international clients for the past 6 years. Previously, Michelle was Deputy MD of a legal agency […]
Goedele Gillis
A graduate from the University of Brussels (Belgium) in Art History, Goedele started at nWave Pictures in 1999 as the part-time assistant to the director/producer (Ben Stassen). The production house was growing and expanding and she went through different departments getting to know the company inside out and ending up in the distribution arm, first […]
Gail Jenkinson
Gail Jenkinson is a Director of Photography working in natural history, documentary and specialist factual. Filming on land, sea and air she has been fortunate enough to film in all seven continents. She is HSE qualified for filming underwater and is a specialist at working on boats, making her highly experienced at shooting aboard sea […]
Eshika Fyzee
Eshika Fyzee is a wildlife filmmaker who emphasizes conservation in all the work that she does. After having finished placements at the BBC Natural History Unit and Icon films, as well as a Masters in wildlife filmmaking in Bristol, Eshika founded the production company Pangea Films in January, 2018 to focus on creating wildlife, adventure […]
Anne Simon
Research director at the CNRS, Anne Simon is a part of the School of Social Sciences where she is responsible for the Proust Pole and the “Animots” zoopoetics notebook. Her research focuses on the crossovers between philosophy, ethics and literature – she studies literary revitalizations of the ark motif, and novelist representations of industrial animal […]
Erica Francis Rugabandana
Erica Francis Rugabandana has a background in wildlife management and community development, with a specialization in communication for environmental and wildlife conservation education. Erica has a wide breadth of knowledge and experience working with NGOs in Tanzania as a film producer. She is a graduate of Mount Meru University with Hon. Master of Arts in […]
Isabelle Graziadey
Isabelle Graziadey manages Terranoa’s international sales team and drives acquisitions and pre-sales activity. She started her career in the television industry working for ARTE on the marketing front and on the new channel’s on-air and off-air identity. After two decades of working at Terranoa, she has been instrumental in establishing Terranoa as one of the […]
Sophie Darlington
Sophie Darlington is a BAFTA & multi award-winning UK based natural history filmmaker and Director of Photography who has been making wildlife feature films and television for more than 25 years. She has an outstanding reputation as a highly experienced self-shooting cinematographer specialising in long lens camerawork, beautiful composition, high speed and animal behaviour. Sophie has worked on highly […]
Eden Robinson
Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla, British Columbia. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of short stories, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the […]
Zakiya Mckenzie
Zakiya Mckenzie began her working life as a scriptwriter and journalist in Kingston, Jamaica, New York City and then Johannesburg, South Africa. Back home in England, she became a ‘Green and Black Ambassador,’ making connections between Bristol’s African-Caribbean communities and the city’s booming environmental sector. She holds a Masters of Research in Environment, Energy and […]
Justine Evans
Justine Evans is a well known UK based wildlife film maker and camerawoman who has been in the industry for over 25 years. Her varied career has seen her working across the globe on many of the BBC’s natural history landmark series from David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals right up to the forthcoming One Planet […]
Birgit Peters
Since 2004, Birgit Peters has written and directed natural history and wildlife documentaries for ARD, NDR, BR, VOX and ORF as well as for international co-productions such as the BBC/NDR series Pacific Abyss. She also presented the wildlife series Adventure Ocean and Wonders of the Namib for ARD and NDR amongst other productions. In 2016, […]
Arati Kumar-Rao
Arati Kumar-Rao is a National Geographic Explorer, independent environmental photographer, writer, and artist documenting the slow violence of ecological degradation. She crisscrosses the South Asian subcontinent following a single story, across seasons, sometimes over years, in order to chronicle South Asia’s changing landscapes and climate, and its effect on livelihoods and biodiversity. She communicates through […]
