Winners
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Film Competition in years past. The honorees and their films represent a select group, judged from a field of as many as 650 film entries. Please note that all credits are not listed.
2005 Winners
Grand Teton Award (Best of Festival)
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
The Katahdin Foundation
Best Animal Behavior Program
Wildlife on One, Series 31:Capuchins-The Monkey Puzzle
BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide, Animal Planet,
Discovery Communications
Best Children's Program
Earthling
Wolfgang Bayer Productions, EarthNative Films
Best Earth Sciences Program
Hot Rocks - Geology of Civilization: Risky Rocks
The Open University, BBC4, The Science Channel
Best Environmental Program
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
The Katahdin Foundation
Best Limited Series
Europe, A Natural History
BBC, ORF, ZDF
Marion Zunz Newcomer Award
The Last Goosekeeper
Henrik Helsgaun
Best Nonbroadcast Program
Eagle Odyssey
RSPB Film Unit
Best People & Animals Program
Strange Days on Planet Earth: Predators
National Geographic Television and Film,
Vulcan Productions, Sea Studios Foundation
Best Short Program
Devil's Teeth
Roger Teich
Best Theatrical Program
March of the Penguins
Bonne Pioche, National Geographic Feature Films,
Warner Independent Pictures
Best Web Presentation
NATURE: Deep Jungle
Nature/WNET, Granada Wild,
National Geographic Channel International, France 5
Craft Categories:
Best Achievement in Sound
Earthling
Wolfgang Bayer Productions, EarthNative Films
Sound Recordist: Dustin Vandenbroeke
Editing, Mixing: DBC Sound
Best CGI-Animation
Bristish Isles, A Natural History: Ice Age (Programme 3)
BBC Natural History Unit
Best Cinematography
Natural World: Mississippi - Tales of the Last River Rat
@GB Films Ltd., BBC, Discovery Channel
Cinematography: Neil Rettig
Additional Photography: Colin Stafford-Johnson
Best Editing
Roar: Lions of the Kalahari
Tim Liversedge Productions, National Geographic
Editors: Lori Petersen Waite, Mark Fletcher
Best Musical Score
March of the Penguins
Bonne Pioche, National Geographic Feature Films,Warner Independent Pictures Composer: Alex Wurman
Best Writing
March of the Penguins
Bonne Pioche, National Geographic Feature Films, Warner Independent Pictures Based on the screenplay by Luc Jacquet & Michel Fessler
Narration by Jordan Roberts
Special Jury Prizes
Ants - Nature's Secret Power
Adi Mayer Films, ORF, Docstar, WDR
NATURE: The Good, the Bad, and the Grizzly
Nature/WNET, Moore & Moore Productions
2003 Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by Nature / WNET
Dr. George Schaller was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gala Awards Ceremony Thursday, September 25.
As vice president for science and exploration of the Wildlife Conservation Society, his four decades of field research has shaped wildlife protection around the world. Focusing on a particular species’ role within its environment, encompassing indigenous people, vegetation and other animals, Schaller created the paradigm of conservation biology. Apart from his landmark studies of mountain gorillas (initiating Dian Fossey’s crusade), tigers, lions, jaguars, cheetahs and leopards, he has also researched wild sheep and goats, snow leopards, giant pandas, rhinos and flamingos.
Conservation Action Awards
For the first time ever, the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival presented Conservation Action Awards at the 2003 Wildlife Festival.
The Congo Basin Forest Partnership received a Conservation Action Award for their efforts to conserve and sustainably manage the biodiversity rich forests of Central Africa. President El Hadj Omar Bongo received a Conservation Action Award for his precedent-setting decision to set aside over 10,000 square miles to create a system of 13 National Parks in Gabon.
Corporate Achievement Award sponsored by NHNZ, Ltd.
The Festival also gave its first Corporate Achievement Award to the Japanese broadcaster NHK, in recognition of its 50th anniversary of TV broadcasting.
After 26 years of radio broadcasting, NHK started its first TV broadcasting in 1953. With a firm belief that broadcasting is an expression of culture founded on technology, it has strived to take in the newest technological developments into 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.
Grand Teton Award—Best of Festival
The Cultured Ape
Scorer Associates
Best Animal Behavior
Snake Killers of the Kalahari
National Geographic
Best Children’s
China Bear Special: Really Wild Show
BBC
Best Earth Sciences
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Green Umbrella, Limited and Discovery Channel
Best Cinematography
Wild Africa: Mountains
Discovery Channel, BBC
Cinematographers: Martyn Colbeck, Trevor de Kock, Justin Maguire
Best Editing
My Halcyon River
BBC
Editor: Nigel Buck
Best Environmental
Ape Hunters
BBC
Best Limited Series
Wild Africa
Discovery Channel, BBC
Marion Zunz Newcomer
Flip Flotsam
Etienne Oliff & Lucy Bateman
Best Nonbroadcast
Laboratory Rat: A Natural History
Oxford University
Best People and Animals
Pale Male
Frederic Lilien, FL Productions
Best Short
Deadly Sounds in the Silent World
The Whaleman Foundation
Best Music
Danger in Tiger Paradise
BBC, Animal Planet, Mike Birkhead Associates
Composer: David Mitcham
Best Achievement in Sound
Shark Battlefield
BBC, Discovery Channel
Sound Editor: Kate Hopkins, Dubbing Mixer: Martyn Harries
Best CGI/Animation
Monsters We Met: The Eternal Frontier
BBC, Animal Planet
Best Theatrical
Winged Migration
Sony Pictures Classics
Best Web Presentation
Florida’s Springs: Protecting Nature’s Gem, Fusionspark Media, Inc.
http://www.floridasprings.org
Best Writing
Temple of the Tigers: India's Bandhavgarh Wilderness
Icon Films
Writer: Harry Marshall
Take Your Best Shot Competition
Martin Dohrn, for Terminal Velocity
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
2001 Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award
For his astonishing work as a pioneer in underwater photography and diving, Prof. Hans Hass received the Dieter Plagge "Lifetime Achievement" Award. In 1942, Hass was the first person to combine the use of swim fins (invented in 1937) with self-contained diving equipment in a water environment, initiating the change from helmeted "walk-diving" to the new era of swim diving. From 1937 to 1962 he made over 100 underwater films, most of them with his wife and partner, Lotte Hass. Today, at 82 years of age, he is still a fervent advocate of marine and environmental protection. Six decades of significant achievements and advances have made him a pioneer for both scuba divers and marine environmentalists. His many books and films have influenced most of the underwater filmmakers and photographers of today. For more information about Hans Hass, refer to the Historical Diving Website at www.hds.org/hass.html
Grand Teton Award
Mzima: Haunt of the Riverhorse
Survival Anglia Ltd/National Geographic Television
Producers: Mark Deeble/Victoria Stone
Best Animal Behavior
Mzima: Haunt of the Riverhorse
Survival Anglia Ltd/National Geographic Television
Producers: Mark Deeble/Victoria Stone
Best Children’s
Zoboomafoo: Can You Feel It?
Cinar Corporation/PBS/Earth Creatures Co./MPRm Public Relations
Producers: Chris Kratt/Martin Kratt/Leo Eaton/Peter Moss/Cheryl Knapp
Best Cinematography
Living Edens: Yellowstone, America's Secret Eden
ABC/Kane Productions
Producers: Hugh Miles/Shane Moore
Executive Producer: Alex Gregory
Cinematographers: Shane Moore/Bob Landis/Hugh Miles
Best Editing
The Great Dance
Off the Fence/Aardvark/Liquid Pictures/Earthrise
Producer: Ellen Windemuth
Executive Producer: James Hersov
Editor: Damon Foster
Best Environmental
The Curse of the Methuselah Tree
Windfall Films/Channel 4
Producers: Ian Duncan/Nikki Arend
Best Limited Series
Blue Planet
BBC Natural History Unit/Discovery Channel
Series Producer:Alastair Fothergill
Marion Zunz Newcomer
Secrets of the Turtle Tomb
HIT Entertainment
Producers: Michael Wong/Michael Rosenberg
Best Nonbroadcast
Spirit of Yosemite
Greystone Films
Producer: David Vassar
Best People and Animals
The Great Dance
Off the Fence/Aardvark/Liquid Pictures/Earthrise
Producer: Ellen Windemuth
Executive Producer: James Hersov
Best Short
Living with Hippos
National Geographic Television
Producer: Stella Cha
Executive Producer: David Royle
Best Achievement in Sound
The Great Dance
Off the Fence/Aardvark/Liquid Pictures/Earthrise
Producer: Ellen Windemuth
Executive Producer: James Hersov
Sound Recordist: Barry Donnelly
Best Theatrical
Ocean Oasis
Summerhays Films, Inc.
Producers: Soames Summerhays/Don Steele
Best Web Presentation
Congo Trek
National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com/congotrek
Best Writing
The Burning Sands: Raging Sands
Brando Quilici Productions/Discovery/RAI/Teleimages
Producers: Brando Quilici/Executive: Steven Manuel
Writer: Robert Goldberg
Best Shot Competition
Wayne Hinde, Panthera Productions
1999 Winners
Grand Teton Award
Vision Man
Aby-Long Productions
Producer: Lars Aby
Best Animal Behavior (Double Winner)
The Dragons of Galapagos
National Geographic Television
Producers: David Parer/Elizabeth Parer-Cook
Executive Producers: Nicolas Noxon/Dione Gilmour
Dolphins: The Wild Side
National Geographic Television
Executive Producers: Nicolas Noxon/Keenan Smart
Producer: Paul Atkins
Best Childrens
Possum’s Rest
ABC Natural History Unit
Producer: Nick Hilligoss
Best Cinematography
Madagascar: A World Apart
ABC/Kane Productions, Inc.
Cinematographer: Andrew Young
Producers: Andrew Young/Susan Todd
Best Conservation/Environmental
National Geographic Explorer: The Secret Life of Cats
National Geographic Television
Executive Producer: Michael Rosenfeld
Senior Producer: David Royle
Producer: Allison Argo
Head NHU – Keenan Smart
Award for Innovation
The Wildlife Specials: Leopard
BBC – Natural History Unit
Producers: Owen Newman/Amanda Barrett
Series Producer: Keith Scholey
Best Investigative
Wildlife for Sale Dead or Alive
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Executive Producer: Michael Allder
Producers: Italo Costa
Best Limited Series
The Life of Birds: To Fly or Not to Fly Episode 1
Signals and Songs Episode 6
The Limits of Endurance Episode 10
BBC – Natural History Unit
Producer To Fly or Not to Fly: Mike Salisbury
Producer Signals and Songs: Peter Bassett
Executive Producer Signals and Songs: Mike Salisbury
Producer Limits of Endurance: Miles Barton
Executive Producer Limits of Endurance: Mike Salisbury
Newcomer
Atacama: The Flowering Desert
Equilibrio Producciones
Producers: Graham Lewis/Christian Munoz Donoso
Newcomers: Graham Lewis/Christian Munuz Donoso
Best Nonbroadcast
Africa’s Elephant Kingdom
Discovery Communications, Inc.
Executive Producer: Tim Cowling
Producer: Michael Caulfield
Best People and Animals
Rat
National Geographic Television
Producer: Mark Lewis
Co-Production Companies: Canal+/Channel 4/NH New Zealand, Ltd/Beyond Productions
PSA/VNR’s
Guyana’s Natural Heritage
Conservation International
Producer: Flavia Castro
Best Short
Wildlife on One: Spiders from Mars
BBC – Natural History Unit
Producer: Vanessa Berlowitz
Series Producer: Robin Hellier
Best Writing Award
Bhutan: The Last Shangri-La
ABC/Kane Productions, Inc.
Producer: Harry Marshall
Writer: Harry Marshall
Special Jury Award Of Merit
The Wildlife Specials: Tiger
BBC - Natural History Unit
Producers: Hugh Miles/Mike Birkhead
Island of the Sharks
Howard Hall Productions
Producer: Michele Hall
1997 Winners
Grand Teton Award
People of the Sea
International Wildlife Films
Producer: Patrick Morris
Best Animal Behavior
Mountain Gorilla: A Shattered Kingdom
Survival Anglia Ltd.
Producer: Bruce Davidson
Best Children's
Krattsí Creatures: Big Five, Little Five
Paragon Entertainment Corporation
Producer: Leo Eaton/Jon Slan/Wilson Coneybeare/Richard Borchiver
Best Cinematography
The Living Eden: Denali: Alaska's Great Wilderness
ABC/Kane Productions
Executive Producers: Alex Gregory/Dennis Kane
Producer: Bruce Reitherman; Camera: Bruce Reitherman
Best Conservation/Environmental
People of the Sea
International Wildlife Films
Producer: Patrick Morris
Award for Innovation
The Ultimate Guide to Elephants
Discovery Communications, Inc.
Producer: Ian Duncan/David Hickman/Steve Burns
Best Investigative
Tiger: Lord of the Wild
ABC/Kane Productions
Producer: Elizabeth Green/James McQuillan
Best Limited Series
Living Edens: Denali: Alaska's Great Wilderness
Living Edens: Manu: Peru's Hidden Rainforest
ABC/Kane Productions
Executive Producers: Alex Gregory/Dennis B. Kane
Producer Denali: Bruce Reitherman
Manu: Kim MacQuarrie/Drew Hunt/Neal Williams
Newcomer
Toothwalker's, Giants of Arctic Ice
Toothwalkers & Canal+
Producer: Sarah Robertson/Adam Ravetch
Best Short
The Last Frog
National Geographic Televsion
Producer: Allison Argo
Special Consideration
Puma: Lion of the Andes
National Geographic Television
Producer: Hugh Miles
Special Jury Award of Merit
Pygmy Chimpanzee: The Last Great Ape
BBC: Natural History Unit
Producer: Karen Bass
1995 Winners
Grand Teton Award
Life in the Freezer: The Big Freeze
Producer: Martha Holmes/Ned Kelly/Peter Bassett/Alastair Fothergill
British Broadcasting Corporation/National Geographic Television
Best Animal Behavior/Ecology
The New Chimpanzees
Producer: Catherine McConnell
National Geographic Television
Best Children’s
Once Upon Australia
Producer: Nick Hilligoss
Australian Broadcasting Corporation-NHU
Best Craft (for Cinematography)
Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge
Producer: Lisa Truitt
National Geographic Television
Best Conservation/Environmental
Survival of the Apes
Producer: Frances Berrigan
Cicada Films
Award for Innovation
The Private Life of Plants: Growing
Producer: Mike Salisbury
British Broadcasting Corporation-NHU
Best Investigative
National Geographic EXPLORER: Last of the Dancing Bears
Producer: Sarah Cunliffe
National Geographic Television
Best Limited Series
Life in the Freezer: The Big Freeze
The Bountiful Sea
The Door Closes
Producer: Martha Holmes/Ned Kelly/Peter Bassett/Alastair Fothergill
British Broadcasting Corporation-NHU/National Geographic Television
Newcomer
National Geographic Explorer: Ndoki Adventure
Producer: Bryan Harvey/Michael Nicols
National Geographic Television
The Call of Kakadu
Producer: David Curl
David Curl Productions/Nature/WNET/BBC
Best Nonbroadcast
Dinosaurs on Earth: Then & Now
Producer: Yves Gerard Issembert
National Geographic Society
Most Resourceful
Fanamby: Ny Nosy Mena Ho Nosy Maitso (The Bet)
Producer: Haroldo Castro/Flavia Castro
Conservation International
Special Consideration
Secrets of the Wild Panda
Producer: Mark Stouffer/Adrian Warren
National Geographic Society
Best Short Film
Lake of the Flies
Producer: Richard Matthews
Zebra Film Productions Ltd./BBC/National Geographic Television
Best Multimedia
CD ROM: How Animals Move
Producer: Discovery Channel Multimedia
Discovery Channel Multimedia
CD ROM: Nile-Passage to Egypt
Producer: Margaret Buckley
Discovery Channel Multimedia
Special Jury Award Of Merit
Recognition of two films for the way the producers protrayed exceptional human commitment to increasing our understanding of the Natural World:
Limited Series
Lords of the Animals: He Dances for His Cormorants
Gatherers from the Sky
The Tsaatan, The Reindeer Riders
Producer: Frederic Fougea
Boreales/Canal+
Conservation
In Good Hands: Culture and Agriculture in the Lacandon Rainforest
Producer: Jaime Kibben/Steve Bartz
Independent