The South African trailblazers seeking to change how wildlife documentaries are made
Geographic explorers create dive lab after finding too few black film-makers telling African wildlife stories When Pragna Parsotam-Kok and Noel Kok made a wildlife series
Geographic explorers create dive lab after finding too few black film-makers telling African wildlife stories When Pragna Parsotam-Kok and Noel Kok made a wildlife series for South African TV in 2015, they were struck by how challenging it was to access animals to film and how few other African wildlife documentary makers there were. Their response was to set up the not-for-profit Nature Environment and Wildlife Conservation Trust (NEWF) and to host a conference for African wildlife film-makers, the first taking place in 2017. Continue reading...
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