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ICON FILMS NEWS
ICON FILMS PRODUCE 2ND ROUND OF COMMISSIONS FOR BBC'S ONE SHOW:
BACK FROM THE BRINK
Naturalist Steve Backshall makes a tour around Britain to come face to face with some of our more endangered species who have made it back from the brink of extinction. His journey takes him behind the scenes at Kew Gardens, to a holiday camp in north Wales and right into a White-Tailed Eagle's nest in Scotland. Along the way he meets the unsung heroes who dedicate their lives to keeping our rarer wildlife on the UK map.
ICON FILMS SNARES INCREDIBLY RARE TIGER KILL FOOTAGE FOR BBC
This 1x50 minute documentary explores, through the trials, tribulations and eventual triumph of two top natural history cameramen, why it is so difficult to document a tiger kill on film.
Wildlife cameraman Simon King, has filmed big cat hunting behaviour across the world for over two decades, capturing leopards, lions and cheetahs at that most breathtaking moment of predation.
Yet Simon has never visited India to see a tiger in the wild and has longed to witness the biggest of big cats take prey at full, magnificent stretch. But it’s a dream that is in danger of being unfulfilled. Tigers are facing extinction in the wild and with their catastrophic decline the opportunities to document the central event of their predatory lives is becoming harder and harder.
But there’s hope. Simon has teamed up with Indian tiger expert, Alphonse Roy and to crack one of Natural History’s toughest challenges, to get a tiger kill on film. With a shared ambition, but very different opinions about how to get their shot, Simon and Alphonse share their field craft, technical skills and local knowledge, and after an epic struggle of wills and patience manage to record the elusive and fleeting moment of a tiger at the peak of its powers, an event so rare in the history of nature documentary film-making that similar sequences can be counted on the fingers of one hand. It’s a stunning achievement that delivers priceless insight into this magnificent species and a poignant, timely reminder of it’s precarious existence.
Harry Marshall, Producer and Director says, “Icon Films has bought together two experts to achieve a feat only once before captured on film. Simon King, one of the worlds leading experts on big cats and their behaviour, had never been to India and had never seen a wild tiger. We paired him with Indian Wildlife filmmaker and tiger expert, Alphonse Roy to make a truly historic film”.
THE GREEN TEAM
Icon Films have stepped up their commitment to promoting sustainable and environmentally sound practices with the recent appointment of 2 Green Goddesses Abi Hobden and Ella Daines-Smith. Their brief is to make Icon a greener place to be and to reduce Icon’s footprint on the outside world.
We are now the proud owners of many recycling bins and have a strict monitor monitor.
ICON FILMS PRODUCES CHARITY FILM - IT'S ABOUT TIME
Enthusiatic volunteers from Icon Films were commissioned by The Media Trust to produce a 4 minute film for the charity Time Banks UK. which will transmit on the Community Channel. Time Banking is a 21st Century answer to volunteering, instead of just volunteering you gain credits whenever you give some of your time and in exchange you can dip into database of multi skilled volunteers and get help with areas you lack the skills in. The film explores this community of volunteers and shows how everyone has something to offer and gain and can get involved.
http://www.timebanks.co.uk/
Camera: Ian Smith
Sound: David Denny
Editor: Tom Kelpie
Producer: Ella Daines-Smith
Director: Menekse Meech |
