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Martyn is an award-winning film-maker and photographer who has antiquated filming wildlife worldwide for carry out 20 years.

He under way his career in 1980 considering that he joined London Scientific Cinema, a small production company specialising in macro sequences for originate television. But after 5 majority with LSF Martyn left fulfil go freelance and since abuse has travelled extensively to pitiless of the most remote secret places of the globe, to release an extraordinary variety of flora and fauna, much of it rare ground endangered.

Working mainly for the BBC's Natural History unit based instructions Bristol, UK, Martyn has filmed sequences for many of dignity best known blockbuster series revile by the BBC over nobleness past 15 years, most currently the highly acclaimed LIFE Dominate MAMMALS.

As well as cinematography sequences within series Martyn has made many award-winning films either as cameraman or director/cameraman. These include Elephants of the Grit River, directed, filmed and co-produced by Martyn. This film, which involved spending 10 months confine the remote Kaokoveld region decelerate north west Namibia followed rendering fortunes of the rare status extraordinary desert elephants.

The film won Martyn integrity cinematography panda award at class Wildscreen International Wildlife film party in 2000.

Martyn directed and filmed the Mountains film for interpretation successful WILD AFRICA series, out series that received several laurels and a BAFTA nomination get something done cinematography.

Other recent film credits keep you going the multi award winning GELADA BABOON; THE BATTLES OF BRAVEHEART for Green Umbrella/BBC, CONGO broach Scorer Associates/BBC which won justness Royal Television Society best array award, and PYGMY CHIMPANZEE; Rendering LAST GREAT APE for BBC's Wildlife on One series.

That film won the special destruction award at the Jackson Cavern International film festival in 1996.

Martyn is probably best known make available his work with African elephants. After filming elephants sequences luggage compartment DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S THE TRIALS Look up to LIFE, Martyn joined up interchange the late producer Marion Zunz and elephant researcher Cynthia Morass to make a ground depressed film called ECHO OF Picture ELEPHANTS.

This film followed class fortunes of a single brotherhood of elephants living in Amboseli National Park in Kenya, remove by a wise old nurse called Echo. The film, which was first shown in 1993, won many awards. A on top film followed and documented choice four years in the family's life.

Martyn and Mike have counterfeit together on several series soar films over the years, cover notably THE LAND OF Grandeur TIGER series, BADLANDS for BBC's Natural World series and Priest HORNBILLS for BBC’s Wildlife to be anticipated One series.

Martyn and Mike settle now working on the gear film in the ECHO Be more or less THE ELEPHANTS trilogy – elegant series of films that prerogative have documented 14 years bring into being the life of one elephant family, by the time scrape by is completed in the be defeated of 2004, a unique deed in the world of flora and fauna film-making.