The Serengeti Rules
Synopsis
Now in the twilight of their eminent careers, these five unsung heroes of modern ecology share the stories of their adventures, reveal how their pioneering work flipped our view of nature on its head, and give us a chance to reimagine the world as it could and should be.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Spotlight Documentary - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2018
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 84 mins
- Director
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Nicolas Brown
- Producer
- David Allen; Story Producer: Catherine Watling; Natural History Producer: Joe Loncraine
- Executive Producer
- David Guy Elisco, John Battsek, Dennis WC Liu, Andrew Ruhemann
- Editor
- Andy R. Worboys
- Screenwriter
- Nicolas Brown
- Director of Photography
- Tim Cragg
- Composer
- Anne Nikitin
- Principal cast
- Sean B. Carroll, Tony Sinclair, Mary Power, John Terborgh, Jim Estes
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
An HHMI Tangled Bank Studios (US), Passion Planet (UK) production with support of Simons Science Sandbox
Passion Planet
c/o Passion PicturesCounty House
33-34 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1JN
Sales Company
Submarine Entertainment
197 Grand Street, Suite 6WNew York
NY 10013
USA
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