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Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Announces Awards
Jackson Hole, WY, October 2, 2003 – The Jackson
Hole Wildlife Film Festival is pleased to announce the selection
of this year’s Film Competition Award winners. Films
were selected from over 550 entries by a committee including
David Dugan, Eugene Linden, Mary Jane McKinven, Cathe Neukum,
and Victoria Stone. Winners of the Festival Film Competition
are:
Grand Teton Award—Best of
Festival
Sponsored by Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems
The Cultured Ape, Scorer Associates
Considered by the judges for this prestigious award were:
Winged Migration, The Cultured Ape, State
of the Planet, and Pale Male
Best Animal Behavior
Sponsored by World Wildlife
Fund
Snake Hunters of the Kalahari, National Geographic
Children's Program
Sponsored
by National Wildlife Federation
China Bear Special: Really Wild Show, BBC
Earth Sciences
Sponsored by American Geological Institute
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Green Umbrella,
Limited and Discovery Channel
Environmental
Sponsored
by Conservation International
Ape Hunters, BBC
Limited Series
Sponsored
by Quantel, Inc.
Wild Africa, Discovery Channel, BBC
Newcomer
Sponsored by
Granada Visual
Flip Flotsam, Etienne Oliff & Lucy Bateman
Non-Broadcast
Sponsored
by Lobo Media Productions
Laboratory Rat: A Natural History, Oxford University
People & Animals
Sponsored
by National Geographic Channels International
Pale Male, Frederic Lilien, FL Productions
Short
Sponsored by Lobo
Media Productions
Deadly Sounds in the Silent World, The Whaleman Foundation
Theatrical
Sponsored by
Fletcher Chicago
Winged Migration, Sony Pictures Classics
Website
Sponsored by Sony
Electronics
Florida’s Springs: Protecting Nature’s Gem,
Fusionspark Media, Inc.
http://www.floridasprings.org
Achievement in Sound
Sponsored
by Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Shark Battlefield, BBC and Discovery Channel
Kate Hopkins, Sound Editor; Martyn Harries, Dubbing Mixer
CGI/Animation
Sponsored
by Marco Polo Archive
Monsters We Met: The Eternal Frontier, BBC and Animal
Planet
Cinematography
Sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company
Wild Africa: Mountains, Discovery Channel and BBC
Cinematographers: Martyn Colbeck, Trevor de Kock, Justin
Maguire
Editing
Sponsored by LaserPacific Media Corporation
My Halcyon River, BBC
Nigel Buck, Editor
Music
Sponsored by Nature/WNET
Danger in Tiger Paradise, BBC, Animal Planet, and Mike
Birkhead Associates
David Mitcham, Composer
Writing
Sponsored by Writers Guild of America, west
Temple of the Tigers: India's Bandhavgarh Wilderness,
Icon Films
Writer, Harry Marshall
Special Jury Award for tackling a notoriously tough
subject in a courageous and compelling way
The State of the Planet with David Attenborough, BBC
and Discovery Channel
Special Jury Award to an individual with the passion
to explore a complex, controversial, and important issue.
Cost of Freedom, Vanessa Schulz, 21st Paradigm
Michael Brinkman Emerging Filmmaker Award Recipients:
(sponsored in association with the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film
Festival by: Apple, Abel Cine Tech, Anton Bauer, Crawford
Communications, Discovery, Dolby Laboratories, Fujinon, Granada
Wild, LaserPacific Media, Panasonic, Pace Technology, Quantel,
and Sony Electronics)
Brad Markel—project (working title): Western Fires
and Yellowstone’s Amazing Rebirth
John Shier—project (working title): Mazaalai, Ghost
of the Gobi
Take Your Best Shot Award:
Martin Dohrn, for "Terminal Velocity"
In addition to these prestigious film awards, the Festival
honored Dr. George Schaller with its Lifetime Achievement
Award. Dr. Schaller is recognized as the world’s foremost
field biologist. As vice president for science and exploration
of the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society, his
five decades of field research have shaped wildlife protection
around the world. His dedication to wildlife conservation
has been instrumental in the establishment of five of the
world’s wildlife reserves, including the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and Chang Tang Wildlife Reserve
in Tibet.
The Festival also presented a Lifetime Corporate Achievement
Award to the Japanese broadcaster NHK in recognition of its
50th anniversary of TV broadcasting. NHK is a well-known pioneer
in the research and development of HDTV technology, and has
actively promoted HDTV acquisition, editing and broadcasting.
NHK has not only been a leader in the development of the technology,
but is one of the world’s major producers of natural
history films.
For the first time ever, the Festival presented special Conservation
Action Awards in recognition of the important work that is
underway in the Congo Basin. President El Hadj Omar Bongo
(Gabon) was honored for his landmark and precedent-setting
decision to protect over 10,000 square miles of landscape
in a system of 13 national parks. In addition, the Republic
of Congo and the recently formed Congo Basin Forest Partnership
(CBFP) were recognized for their leadership in the conservation
efforts of the region.
The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is sponsored by 22
global organizations. They range from major broadcasting corporations
and production companies to post-production houses and conservation
organizations. The Festival's Board of Directors includes:
American Geological Institute, Animal Planet, BBC Natural
History Unit, Crawford Communications, Discovery Channel,
Dolby Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Company, ERWDA, Fujinon,
Granada Wild, LaserPacific Media Corporation, Lobo Media Productions,
National Geographic Television, National Wildlife Federation,
Natural History New Zealand, Nature/WNET, NHK/Japanese Broadcasting,
ORF/Austrian Television, Panasonic Broadcast and Television
Systems, Sony Electronics, the Turner Foundation, and Writer’s
Guild of America, west.
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