Mark Deeble
The Elephant Mother
En episk reiseskildring om familie, mot og tilhørighet. Følg Athena, elefantenes majestetiske matriark, som leder flokken sin gjennom et uforsonlig afrikansk landskap. Filmen er fortalt av Chiwetel Ejiofor, og utvalgt til filmfestivalene i Toronto og Sundance.
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Mzima – Haunt of the Riverhorse
An Emmy® and Peabody award winning film from Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, narrated by Ian Holm. Venture beneath the clear waters of an African spring to experience the hidden, and often violent, underwater lives of crocodiles, hippos and giant pythons, as they battle for supremacy in crystal clear springs. In order to capture the most dramatic and revelatory underwater footage ever seen of the two most dangerous animals in Africa, the filmmakers developed new filming techniques and used the latest diving technology to get their cameras into the mouths of hippos and crocodiles. They reveal startling images of how crocodiles feed underwater and how hippos have their tongues cleaned by fish. The story centres on the extraordinary relationships the hippos have developed with all the springs creatures and ends with the infanticide of a baby hippo that had been born in the pool - the most dramatic and poignant sequence that this award-winning team have witnessed in twenty years of filming.
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The Tides of Kirawira
A multi award-winning film from Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, narrated by Ian Holm, tells the story of the seasonal Grumeti - home to the most spectacular population of giant crocodiles in Africa. When it rains in Serengeti, a flash flood sweeps along a sandy river-bed. It is the Grumeti river, a seasonal lifeline for all the creatures at Kirawira - especially its giant crocodiles. Trapped in drying pools, clams and fish become a yearly feast for the riverside creatures. Crocodiles dam rivers, lizards go fishing, storks spear clams and flowers trap the unwary. As it dries on the plains, the great wildebeest herds head out towards Kirawira, where giant crocodiles and catfish are forced to trek along the drying riverbed, in search of permanent water. Aestivation or migration are the only options left for the river’s residents. Then, one morning, the wildebeest arrive to play their part in the seasonal drama of the drying pools - primordial carnage reigns as the desperate herds try to drink at the crocodiles’ pools. The wildebeest will move on, leaving Kirawira in the grip of the seasonal drought - its only salvation, that away on the plains...it might rain.
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The Elephant Queen
Embark on an epic journey of family, courage, and coming home in this feature-length documentary. Join Athena, the majestic matriarch, as she leads her elephant herd across an unforgiving African landscape filled with vibrant wildlife.
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The Queen of Trees
Hailed as ‘a masterpiece’ by Sir David Attenborough, this Peabody and Grierson award- winning film from Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone tells the amazing story of an African fig tree and its extraordinary insect pollinator. Narrated by Ian Holm, The Queen of Trees is one of the most amazing stories in the natural world – a tale of intrigue and drama, set against grand Africa and its wildlife. The fig tree and fig wasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship is a pinnacle of co-evolution, and the basis of a complex web of dependency that supports animals from ants to elephants. Each individual fig is a microcosm – a stage set for birth, sex and death as the tiny players battle against predators and parasites to fulfill their mission. “The complexity and interdependence of the Earth at large is demonstrated in microcosm by this breathtaking nature film” - Peabody citation.
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Tale of the Tides
A multi award-winning film from Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, narrated by Ian Holm. This is the extraordinary story of Nature’s battle for the shore seen through the eyes of Africa’s least-known animals. In Africa, a fable explains the creation of the tides. Their daily rhythm ensures that all the shore’s animals can visit to feed, but none can stay very long. The film follows the fortunes of a cast of animals that use the shore, over a cycle of the tides. It is set on the remote storm beaches and in the mangrove forests of northern Kenya. As the tide falls, a hyaena feeds on a shark, a caracal hunts monkeys and an octopus strands itself to catch crabs. Crabs are the currency, and everybody eats them from giant monitor lizards, to predatory grouper, crab plovers and mudskippers. As the tide comes in, giant whale sharks enter the mangroves to feed, moray eels fight with octopus, and predatory snappers and squid hunt in the drowned forest. The fable explains that in return for their place on the shore, crabs must pay a price and in the climax, a storm wrecks millions of swimming crabs. They are a sacrifice to the gods and a feast for all the other animals.
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A Little Fish in Deep Water
The ‘Best of Festival Wildscreen' winner, and a multi award-winning film from Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, narrated by Ian Holm. The extraordinary story of how the oldest lake in Africa has evolved a freshwater community that is found nowhere else in the world. This is the story of how one little fish, against all the odds, has conquered a lake. Lake Tanganyika is an ‘ocean in Africa’. It has been colonised by a fish called ‘cichlid’. Otters, crocodiles, cobras, cormorants, kingfishers and ospreys all hunt the little fish in clear water. How the cichlid survived and evolved is an incredible story - for millions of years later there are over 200 new species - found only in Lake Tanganyika. Incredibly they have evolved to look like coral-reef fish. There are cichlid equivalents of tuna, snapper, gobies and goatfish. They have evolved bizarre methods of breeding, with mouth incubation, lekking and, unique amongst fish, there is even a cuckoo. Despite all their specialisations over millions of years - if an opportunity presents itself, all the fish can behave like their unspecialised ancestor. In the climax to the film, the cichlids shoal together to feast on the annual hatch of sardine fry.
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