Animal Planet unearths reality show
World Brief
Premiering throughout Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Mideast and Africa in early 2007, skein will follow the six as they learn the ins and outs of natural history filmmaking. More than 34,000 people worldwide applied to join the hunt for the Great Wildlife Filmmaker.
The six contestants were flown this month to South Africa, where production has begun on the 4x30-minute series, which is being filmed at the Shamwari Game Reserve.
Wildlife filmmakers Lyndal Davies and Andrew Barron will guide the contestants through a series of increasingly difficult tasks and will provide knowledge and insight to help them shoot and edit their own short.
A panel of experts will judge the docs, with the winning film to be broadcast on Animal Planet in more than 160 countries.
"Unearthed" is produced by Andrew Barron and Yvonne Tang for Barron TV and executive produced by Mark Wild for Animal Planet Intl. Lyndal Davies serves as contributing producer.
Animal Planet reaches 191 million subscribers in more than 160 countries in 24 languages. Animal Planet is a joint venture between Discovery Communications and BBC Worldwide in all international regions except the U.K. and Italy.
