Ellen Windemuth, CEO of WaterBear Network, the new free streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet,  in conversation with SEASON OF THE OSPREY filmmaker Jacob Steinberg.  Ellen was founder and CEO of Off The Fence, and has produced more than 500 hours of programs including this year’s Academy Award documentary winner MY OCTOPUS TEACHER. Ellen’s lifelong passion is to connect the art of filmmaking with wildlife conservation... and that's the topic of her conversation with Jacob just weeks before the premiere of his "Season of the Osprey" for PBS's Nature series. OSPREY is a co-producion of WNET and Love Nature.  Read more at our outreach platform, SeasonoftheOsprey.com and at DocumentaryBusiness.com. (Photo: Dagmar Lap)

Ellen Windemuth, Wildlife Legend on Filmmaking & Conservation

James Manfull is the executive producer for Love Nature, and in a previous life, a producer for Nat Geo’s Natural History Unit.  He and Peter Hamilton answer the question: What does an executive producer for a wildlife film actually do?? James shares his day-to-day responsibilities-- from concept evaluation to delivery -- as the EP of Jacob Steinberg's SEASON OF THE OSPREY for PBS NATURE. He compares Osprey to more typical projects in his pipeline that are greenlit before substantial field cinematography begins.  James asks Peter how he became involved in Jacob’s film, and what were his key contributions as co- executive producer.  Read / listen to more at SeasonoftheOsprey.com and DocumentaryBusinees.com.

James Manfull: Executive Producing Wildlife Films

Ellen Windemuth is the CEO of WaterBear Network, overseeing the strategy and direction of the new free streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet. Ellen has produced 500+ hours of programs including 2021’s Oscar winner MY OCTOPUS TEACHER. We explore her mission to link convenient, app-based documentary viewing to conservation action. I ask if The Ukraine War, re-militarization, and other world tensions are overwhelming progress towards a sustainable planet. We discuss Waterbear's operation, scale of its program offer, acquisitions strategy, key contacts, and much more. Subscribe at Waterbear.com. And read more at DocumentaryBusiness.com

Ellen Windemuth, CEO Waterbear on programming strategy

Hippos and an obnoxiously loud cicada call at dusk in the savanna. Recorded with Sony PCM A10 and Lom mikroUsi microphones. Listen to more recordings from the African savanna at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdGyXE47HzQ&list=PLCRlYmmK1sqpnPimVGFNUhmt1WtYhnsZc

Loud Cicada At South Luangwa

Neal Haddaway is a an environmental scientist,  who has worked on biodiversity, extinction, greenhouse gas emissions, sustainability, international development and climate change. His research focuses on how to get research into actionable policy.
He is also a passionate photographer and in this episode we talk about his photo exhibition Hope? and how  to grief for the planet where Neal explores the emotional connections that science researchers and communicators have with the planet and their work to preserve it.
Watch the exhibition here: https://www.nealhaddaway.com/hope/index.html

#90 Neal Haddaway – Griefing for the planet

The Goldcrest (Regulus regulus) is the smallest European bird. The typical contact call of the Goldcrest is a thin, high-pitched zee given at intervals of 1–4 seconds, with all the notes at the same pitch. It sometimes has a more clipped ending, or is delivered more rapidly. The song of the male Goldcrest is a very high, thin double note cedar, repeated 5–7 times and ending in a flourish, cedar­cedar-cedar-cedar-cedar-stichi-see-pee. The entire song lasts 3–4 seconds and is repeated 5–7 times a minute. This song, often uttered while the male is foraging, can be heard in most months of the year. There is also a subdued rambling subsong. Male Goldcrests sometimes show a territorial response to recordings of the songs or calls of the Common Firecrest, but the reverse is apparently not true, since the songs of the Common Firecrest are simpler in construction than those of its relatives.

Goldcrest

Fiona Tande is  a wildlife conservationist, filmmaker and the founder or executive director of Pridelands Wildlife Film Fest, Africa's first and ONLY wildlife, conservation, nature and environmental film festival - a proud initiative of Prideland Films.

Meet Fiona Tande: Executive Director Of Pridelands Wildlife Film Fest | #TheFuse984

In this episode of the Bristol Distinguished Address Series, we were joined by Dr Jonny Keeling, Head of BBC Studios Natural History unit. 

This event contained videos which were unable to be recorded, so please bare this in mind when listening.

Goldcrest

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