About us
Bristol Wildlife Filmmakers are a group of professional filmmakers who produce wildlife films for television channels around the world. We include producers, directors, camera-people and editors. By sharing our skills and experience, we hope to inspire people of all ages to engage with nature through filmmaking.
We welcome complete beginners and those who have some experience of filming but want to learn more about the challenges of filming wildlife.
Those who have attended our courses include wildlife enthusiasts, film and video makers, young people who want to work in the professional industry and wildlife educators. In January 2011 we were at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire to see the wonderful winter spectacle of thousands of migrant birds taking refuge on the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust reserve there. It was the perfect opportunity to introduce a new 2-day filming course, Introduction to Wildlife Filming. In 2012 we are planning to develop more 1-day courses including a Creating Editing Masterclass to be held in Bristol.
Transferring Your Enthusiasm for Nature…
We believe that learning more about the craft of wildlife filmmaking enables individuals to share with others the joy of close encounters with wildlife and to document the threats and challenges facing the natural world.
…to the Screen
Bristol is a world-class base for wildlife filmmaking. The internationally acclaimed industry began with the creation of the BBC Natural History Unit in the 1950’s and has grown to include many highly regarded independent production companies and freelances. Producers, directors, camera-people, graphic designers and editors as well as composers, sound designers and post-production specialists make Bristol’s wildlife film community vibrant and exciting.
Bristol Wildlife Filmmakers are able to draw on this vast wealth of skills and experience for the courses we run, offering our students the opportunity to learn from some of the most respected and talented individuals working in natural history filmmaking today.
