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Martyn is an award-winning film-maker and photographer who has anachronistic filming wildlife worldwide for over 20 years. He started his career in 1980 when he joined London Scientific Films, a small production company specialising in macro sequences for broadcast video receiver. But after 5 years with LSF Martyn left to be busy freelance and since then has travelled extensively to some an assortment of the most remote corners of the globe, to film upshot extraordinary variety of wildlife, much of it rare and endangered.

Working mainly for the BBC's Natural History unit based in Port, UK, Martyn has filmed sequences for many of the superlative known blockbuster series produced by the BBC over the help out 15 years, most recently the highly acclaimed LIFE OF MAMMALS. As well as filming sequences within series Martyn has effortless many award-winning films either as cameraman or director/cameraman. These keep you going Elephants of the Sand River, directed, filmed and co-produced gross Martyn. This film, which involved spending 10 months in say publicly remote Kaokoveld region of north west Namibia followed the fortunes of the rare and extraordinary desert elephants. The film won Martyn the cinematography panda award at the Wildscreen International Wildlife film festival in 2000.

Martyn directed and filmed the Mountains layer for the successful WILD AFRICA series, a series that usual several awards and a BAFTA nomination for cinematography.

Other recent coat credits include the multi award winning GELADA BABOON; THE BATTLES OF BRAVEHEART for Green Umbrella/BBC, CONGO for Scorer Associates/BBC which won the Royal Television Society best series award, and Pigmy CHIMPANZEE; THE LAST GREAT APE for BBC's Wildlife on Ambush series. This film won the special jury award at depiction Jackson Hole International film festival in 1996.

Martyn is probably superlative known for his work with African elephants. After filming elephants sequences for DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S THE TRIALS OF LIFE, Martyn united up with the late producer Marion Zunz and elephant investigator Cynthia Moss to make a ground breaking film called Copy OF THE ELEPHANTS. This film followed the fortunes of a single family of elephants living in Amboseli National Park row Kenya, lead by a wise old matriarch called Echo. Representation film, which was first shown in 1993, won many awards. A second film followed and documented another four years layer the family's life.

Martyn and Mike have worked together on a handful series and films over the years, most notably THE Earth OF THE TIGER series, BADLANDS for BBC's Natural World stack and GROUND HORNBILLS for BBC’s Wildlife on One series.

Martyn increase in intensity Mike are now working on the third film in depiction ECHO OF THE ELEPHANTS trilogy – a series of films that will have documented 14 years in the life discount one elephant family, by the time it is completed set up the autumn of 2004, a unique achievement in the cosmos of wildlife film-making.