Rick
Rosenthal, Director of Film/Video
MarViva
Foundation
Director Rick Rosenthal is an Emmy award-winning cinematographer
and marine biologist with decades of experience working in the open ocean. He has
filmed some of most challenging wildlife subjects on the planet.His
BBC/PBS film Hunters of the Sea Wind was the first major broadcast program
to showcase the wildlife of the open ocean. Since then, Rick Rosenthal has
filmed over 35 programs, including three award-winning one-hour programs on the
great whales, Riddle of the Right Whale, Humpback Whales and Sperm
Whales Back From the Abyss,
which he shot and produced for the BBC, PBS and the Discovery Channel. He was a
principal cameraman for the Blue Planet series and the feature
film Deep Blue. His cinematography work on BBC’s current
blockbuster series Planet Earth is airing now.
Rosenthal’s latest work Superfish, a natural history of billfish, will air on the PBS and BBC networks
in 2008. Rosenthal has written and published 45 scientific papers, reports and
popular articles on marine biology, ecology and animal behavior. He holds
advanced degrees from
Rick Rosenthal is Director of Film and Video for the Marviva Foundation, a privately funded pro-active international
organization committed to the preservation of marine environments of