RTÉ NATURE SERIES RECEIVES THREE NOMINATIONS AT WORLD’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL
Crossing the Line Films have been nominated for awards for Best Wildlife Habitat Programme, Best Presenter-Led Programme and Best Editing for their highly-acclaimed RTÉ nature documentary The Secret Life of the Shannon at the world’s leading Wildlife Film Festival – Jackson Hole in Wyoming USA.
The documentary saw off competition from over 500 of the best international wildlife films to receive nominations at this prestigious festival and is nominated alongside the biggest names in the Industry – Disney for their feature film on Chimpanzees, BBC for their Africa & Frozen Planet Series.
The biannual festival brings together the world’s best natural history broadcasters, producers and filmmakers and has grown to be the largest and most highly regarded competition of the natural history genre. This year’s festival received a record number of submissions competing for their highly coveted awards.
The Shannon documentary, which aired in May as part of the RTÉ Goes Wild season, brings viewers on a wonderful journey along Ireland’s great river, revealing its secretive wild inhabitants in intimate detail. Beautifully filmed, and accompanied by atmospheric score, the film sees presenter Colin Stafford-Johnson travel the 340km-long river in his canoe, revealing the beauty of its varied habitats, flora and fauna.
Filmed over two years, it features extraordinary animal behaviour captured with the very latest camera technologies and brings a number of firsts to Irish natural history filmmaking – Daubenton’s bats filmed hunting in slow motion; whooper swans filmed in extreme close-up as they fly over the river’s great lakes; and a kingfisher fishing underwater, filmed at over 1,000 frames per second. Breathtaking footage reveal the natural world of Ireland as never before.
The Secret Life of the Shannon (titled internationally ‘On a River in Ireland’) was produced by Crossing the Line in association with RTÉ, with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, ESB, Waterways Ireland, the Heritage Council and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. It was produced by Cepa Giblin and directed by John Murray.
About the Festival
Recognised as the premier event of its genre, the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is an unparalleled industry gathering. Over 650 international delegates participate in an exceptional slate of leading edge equipment presentations, seminars and screenings. This year’s competition includes over 500 films from more than 30 countries – a record number of submissions.
The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival will take place September 23rd to September 27th, 2013.
http://www.jacksonholefilmfestival.org/
About Crossing the Line Films
Crossing the Line is an Emmy nominated Irish television production company, based in Wicklow, specialising in adventure, nature, travel and historical documentaries. They have produced many films for RTÉ, TG4 and many of the world’s leading broadcasters on subjects as diverse as lost Arctic expeditions, the world’s last great nomadic journeys, the Cuban missile crisis and Indian tigers. Crossing the Line has filmed in over 80 countries and in some of the most remote and breathtaking locations on Earth. Their productions have been broadcast in over 150 different countries. In 2011, Crossing the Line Films won awards for Best Conservation and Best presenter led-programme as well as the overall Grand Prize for their internationally acclaimed tiger documentary Broken Tail at the Jackson Hole festival.