You’d better have nerves of steel – advice from AfriScreen Producers Mike Holding and Tania ‘TJ” Jenkins.
So you want to be a wildlife film producer. Why on earth would you want to do that? Why would you want to get into a field of endeavour that requires monumental amounts of thankless work, 16 hour days, no weekends, rare holidays, endless haggling with boneheaded customs officials in seedy third-world border posts, inordinate amounts of trivial paperwork, bombardments of mosquitoes, hundreds of consecutive four o’clock wakeup calls, cold, heat, dust, rain, flies, snakes, mud, broken equipment, nights spent wedged in thorn trees surrounded by lions, waiting on deserted bush airstrips for rickety planes that don’t arrive? There seems to be no comfortable answer, and yet if you ask us to swap what we do for anything else, the retort would be a resounding “NO!”
26 Comments
mahesh
11/9/2010 04:30:54 pm
hello am mahesh from india am just 20 years old. my passion is towards wildlife film maker how to acheive please guide me
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mahesh
11/9/2010 04:35:55 pm
am brought from a lower middle class family so if there is any financial aid it would be useful to me please help me ( my interests are in making wildlife films )
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Richard David Patching
3/26/2012 05:13:05 pm
Hi im looking to Becoming a widlife Cameraman i Really love widlife but at school & College i was told i Could not be a widlife camraman because i am Dyslexic but i have a Natural Skill with filming wildlife cun you help he
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Tom
7/25/2012 11:08:20 pm
I'm working as a runner for a post-production media suite and am also doing a biology degree which I will follow with an MA in Wildlife Documentary Production is there anything else I should be doing or any more advice you can give me because I want to be involved (whether directing, producing, editing, filming whatever!) in Wildlife Documentary Production,
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8/5/2012 11:08:26 am
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ruby barrett
10/19/2012 05:15:55 am
hi im 16 and am certain that this is what i want to do but have no idea where to enter the business if you've got any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.
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Livi Sambrook
1/24/2013 02:56:02 am
i am picking my GCSE's next week, and i would love to do this as a job. is this a great job? what GCSE's do i need for it? is this a good job if i dont love science, but don't mind them?!
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Mridul Bora
2/5/2013 12:46:06 am
Respected Sir
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3/15/2013 05:39:36 pm
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5/8/2013 07:19:26 pm
Once I had an intense desire to come to become a wild life film maker! But I didn't get anyone to advice or support! After almost 8 years I am rethinking about the same! I found your post really inspirational regarding it! It is such a challenging as well as interesting job!
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8/15/2013 03:38:32 pm
The parties involved negotiate a deal and sign contracts. Once all parties have met and the deal has been set, the film may proceed into the pre production period. Thanks.
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Shannon Green
8/12/2014 12:48:06 am
Great blog post, very useful. I wanted to add something (it's kind of a question but I can't work out how to phrase it properly), I know I have the will and perseverance to do this and I think people would say that I'm a nice person, I'm always as polite as I can be, however I'm unlikely to randomly start a conversation without a lot of anxiety and I am not very pushy, it's just not me. Things have been going well for me so far but do you think this will hinder me? Also do you know of any female wildlife film-makers, so far I know of two, it would be nice to have some more role-models? Thank you.
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Prafull Verma
1/12/2017 12:19:07 am
Sir I'm prafull Verma from India 17 years old I want to be next Mike how to be please guide me.
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