Masaru Ikeo, Executive Producer

Media International Corporation

Masaru Ikeo is Executive Producer, Co-production & Business Development for Media International Corporation (MICO) which is an affiliate company of NHK in charge of distribution, acquisition and development for the visual content. Masaru worked for NHK as a producer and an executive producer for natural history and science programs before joining MICO in 2006. Since joining NHK in 1973, Masaru has been involved in the production of NHK Special series including The Miracle Planet and The Arctic. He also worked as Executive Producer for The Global Family, a popular weekly natural history program which has been on the air since 1990, Production Controller in Sapporo Regional Headquarters (1996-1998) and Executive Producer of Programming for the HD Channel (1999-2001). In 2003, he led The Antarctica Project which included a series of science documentaries and live HD transmissions from Antarctica! At the same time, he has been involved in lots of co-production projects, such as The Equator with Natural History New Zealand, The Queen of Trees with Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone, Odzala with Bruce Davidson and Planet Earth with BBC Natural History Unit. Currently, Masaru is actively involved in development and co-production for the nature documentary films for theatrical release especially in 3D.

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