A few weeks ago, I wrote about Discovery Channel’s reluctance to air the climate change episode of the Frozen Planet series–an episode they helped fund. I asked that we label this act ‘unsustainable nature filmmaking’ because Discovery had failed to use its bully pulpit to protect the species that feature heavily in its films. An…
This might be of interest to budding science filmmakers–I just published a video interview with legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog on his new film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which opened to U.S. audiences yesterday. His film is about the Chauvet Cave in the South of France, which is an archaeological site rich in paleolithic cave art….
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMxuocCN1O0 Thanks to the web everything’s being crowd-sourced–from encyclopedias (see Wikipedia) to science (see FoldIt) to journalism (see iReport) to political campaigns (see Obama’s, 2008). So it was only a matter of time before filmmakers caught the zeitgeist and started producing crowd-sourced documentaries. The most ambitious such project, from director Ridley Scott, debuted last Thursday…
Here’s a list of science and nature documentaries that have made an impression on me over the years and continue to be a source of inspiration as I create my own body of work. If you think I’ve missed an awesome movie or three let me know in the comments. Death by Design:Where Parallel Worlds…