COMMITTEE MEMBERS

The International Association of Wildlife Film-makers Committee is currently made up from the following members...

Doug Allan

Doug is a freelance wildlife and documentary cameraman specializing in wildlife and human documentaries, particularly in cold and remote locations and both topside and underwater and has won many awards including 3 BAFTAs, 2 Emmys and several Wildscreen Panda Winners.

John Brown

Equally at home in the studio or the field with experience in the tropics, desert and polar regions and at altitude, he has experience of lighting complex interiors and studio sets and shooting for graphics. John has made significant contributions to many award winning series and programmes both for the BBC and other production companies and has twice reached the finals of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the year competition.

Martin Dohrn

Martin has extremely wide experience as cameraman and producer/cameraman. As well as numerous natural history programmes, Martin has worked on feature films, music videos and commercials. His many credits include the ground-breaking series 'Supersense' (BAFTA nomination for photography), 'Lifesense', and 'Lake of the Flies' for BBC1 and National Geographic, which was a winner at 1995 Jackson Hole Film Festival.

Justine Evans

Justine's film camera career began in 1991 after she completed film school at the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design. She is a very versatile sync and wildlife camerawoman and has many years filming experience in tropical, temperate,desert and arctic conditions.

Mike Hutchinson

Mike has worked in the film-making industry for the last 13 years. Since completing his BSc (Hons) degree in zoology, he has experienced nearly all aspects of programme-making.

Alastair MacEwen

Alastair is a Zoology graduate, film school graduate and co-founder and Director of London Scientific Films, and is now freelance. Alastair has also written and directed commercial documentaries, and has been a lighting cameraman on commercial documentary sync. productions.

Mark Payne-Gill

Over the course of a 17 year career Mark has worked on natural history films in over 40 countries gaining a unique range of skills in film and video styles/techniques. Mark has experience working on several 35mm feature films, drama productions and commercials, presenter and verity sync shooting, drama reconstructions and of course pure natural history.

Robin Smith

Robin is a Bristol based cameraman with a mixed background in both wildlife and documentary camerawork and holds a BSc. Hons Degree in Biological Imaging. Prior to starting his career as a cameraman, Robin spent twelve years teaching adventure sports in a number of outdoor centres around the world, allowing him to gain commercially recognised qualifications in climbing/mountaineering, canoeing/rafting, sailing, power and snow skiing.

Adrian Warren

Adrian Warren is a Director with considerable experience, including camerawork and production. Adrian's impressive CV lists over 30 years of production in the field as well as numerous awards and achievments, including the development of the 'Moving Camera Wing Mount' Marks I and II for fixed wing aircraft.

John Waters

John was IAWF Committee Chairman from 2000-2004. A biology graduate, John embarked upon a career in wildlife TV as researcher in 1983. He started camerawork in 1987. John has wide experience of animal behaviour, especially primates, and has worked in locations as varied as Argentina, Chile, Iceland, Norway (Svalbard), West Africa, East Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand , Malaysia, and Australia.

David Wright

David is an experienced and award winning cinematographer / director working in natural history and human documentaries (http://www.lunaseafilms.com). Originally trained at Oxford Scientific Films, he then relocated to Australia and finally settled in the USA. During this period he has worked in over 30 countries.