Alastair Fothergill
- Regie
- 10. April 1960 · London, England, UK
Biografie
Alastair Fothergill (born 10 April 1960 in London the United Kingdom) is a producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema. He is the executive producer of the multi-award winning series The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006) and the co-director of the associated feature films Deep Blue and Earth. Fothergill attended Harrow. He studied zoology at St Cuthbert's Society in the University of Durham and made his first film, On the Okavango, while still a student. Fothergill joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1983, working on The Really Wild Show, Wildlife on One and David Attenborough's The Trials of Life. He was appointed head of the Unit in 1992, and during his tenure he produced Attenborough's award-winning series Life in the Freezer. In June 1998, he stood down as head of the Unit to concentrate on his work on The Blue Planet. He has also presented several television programmes, including The Abyss and is the author of three books. He was awarded the "Clean Energy Award" by BMW during the Cinema for Peace award ceremony on 11 February 2008. In 2008, he signed a multi-picture deal with newly formed Disneynature, and now spends six months each year on sabbatical from the BBC developing feature documentaries as an independent producer. The first two titles under the Disneynature deal will be Big Cats and Chimpanzee, which he is co-directing with Keith Scholey and Mark Linfield respectively. He is also producing a new seven-part natural history series for the BBC called Frozen Planet, due for completion in 2011. The series will feature the struggles of charismatic animals during a time of rapid climate change in the polar regions. David Attenborough will again narrate. Fothergill currently lives in Bristol with his wife Melinda and his two sons, Hamish and William.
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Filmografie
- Eine Gorilla-Story erzählt von David Attenborough · Produktion
- Die geheimnisvolle Welt der Bienen · Produktion
- Die Dinosaurier · Ausführende Produktion
- Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles · Ausführende Produktion
- Billy & Molly: Eine Liebe zwischen Mensch und Otter · Ausführende Produktion
- Leben auf unserem Planeten · Ausführende Produktion, Produktion
- Hamza: Strictly Birds of Prey · Produktion
- Wilde Inseln · Ausführende Produktion
- Den Eisbären so nah · Regie
- Eisbären · Regie, Produktion
- Breaking Boundaries: Die Wissenschaft hinter „Unser Planet“ · Ausführende Produktion
- Ein perfekter Planet · Ausführende Produktion
- David Attenborough: Mein Leben auf unserem Planeten · Regie, Ausführende Produktion
- Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation · Ausführende Produktion
- Pinguine: Leben am Limit · Selbst, Regie
- Elefanten · Co-Director
- Vogeltanz · Ausführende Produktion
- Pinguine · Regie, Produktion
- Our Planet: Behind the Scenes · Produktion
- Unser Planet · Ausführende Produktion, Other
- Delfine · Co-Director, Produktion
- Unser blauer Planet II · Regie
- Planet Erde II: Eine Erde - viele Welten · Regie
- Die Jagd – Auf Leben und Tod · Ausführende Produktion
- Im Reich der Affen · Regie, Produktion
- Bären · Regie
- Best of Faszination Blauer Planet · Regie
- Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild · Ausführende Produktion
- Schimpansen · Regie, Produktion
- Eisige Welten · Ausführende Produktion
- Im Reich der Raubkatzen · Regie
- Unsere Erde · Regie, Drehbuch
- Planet Earth: The Filmmaker's Story · Selbst, Regie
- Planet Earth: The Future · Regie
- Planet Erde · Produktion, Regie
- Deep Blue · Regie
- The Abyss · Selbst
- Unser blauer Planet · Produktion, Regie
- Life in the Freezer · Produktion, Regie
- The Trials of Life · Produktion
- Natural World · Regie