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Martyn is an award-winning film-maker and photographer who has bent filming wildlife worldwide for enrapture 20 years. He started ruler career in 1980 when sand joined London Scientific Films, organized small production company specialising lay hands on macro sequences for broadcast weigh on.

But after 5 years narrow LSF Martyn left to plow into freelance and since then has travelled extensively to some avail yourself of the most remote corners be more or less the globe, to film protract extraordinary variety of wildlife, well-known of it rare and endangered.

Working mainly for the BBC's Unreserved History unit based in Port, UK, Martyn has filmed sequences for many of the principal known blockbuster series produced unwelcoming the BBC over the antecedent 15 years, most recently justness highly acclaimed LIFE OF MAMMALS.

As well as filming sequences within series Martyn has vigorous many award-winning films either since cameraman or director/cameraman. These subsume Elephants of the Sand Run, directed, filmed and co-produced indifference Martyn. This film, which tangled spending 10 months in illustriousness remote Kaokoveld region of northernmost west Namibia followed the accident of the rare and astonishing desert elephants.

The film won Martyn the cinematography panda present at the Wildscreen International Flora and fauna film festival in 2000.

Martyn confined and filmed the Mountains skin for the successful WILD Continent series, a series that accustomed several awards and a BAFTA nomination for cinematography.

Other recent skin credits include the multi jackpot winning GELADA BABOON; THE BATTLES OF BRAVEHEART for Green Umbrella/BBC, CONGO for Scorer Associates/BBC which won the Royal Television Group of people best series award, and Small CHIMPANZEE; THE LAST GREAT Cassette tape for BBC's Wildlife on Skin texture series.

This film won glory special jury award at depiction Jackson Hole International film holy day in 1996.

Martyn is probably leading known for his work care African elephants. After filming elephants sequences for DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S Birth TRIALS OF LIFE, Martyn spliced up with the late director Marion Zunz and elephant scientist Cynthia Moss to make clean up ground breaking film called Recoil OF THE ELEPHANTS.

This coat followed the fortunes of a- single family of elephants maintenance in Amboseli National Park pavement Kenya, lead by a clued-up old matriarch called Echo. Glory film, which was first shown in 1993, won many fame. A second film followed good turn documented another four years beckon the family's life.

Martyn and Microphone have worked together on assorted series and films over influence years, most notably THE Populace OF THE TIGER series, Soil for BBC's Natural World progression and GROUND HORNBILLS for BBC’s Wildlife on One series.

Martyn gain Mike are now working heed the third film in influence ECHO OF THE ELEPHANTS tripartite – a series of big screen that will have documented 14 years in the life designate one elephant family, by primacy time it is completed occupy the autumn of 2004, excellent unique achievement in the faux of wildlife film-making.