Category: Factual
& Arts TV
Date: 15.10.2004
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The BBC Natural
History Unit is today celebrating a hugely successful year after picking
up seven Panda Awards at the 2004 Wildscreen Festival held in Bristol.
Wildscreen an annual gathering of international wildlife filmmakers
- is the world's biggest festival of moving images from the natural
world.
This year, the event attracted a record 406 entries
from 41 countries.
The BBC picked up seven of the 20 Panda Awards, including the Children's
Choice Award, the Granada Award for Animal Behaviour and the ARKive
Interactive Award.
BBC TWO and OSF Productions also collected the prestigious
WWF Golden Panda Award for Elephant, Emperor and Butterfly Tree, part
of the BBC's Natural World strand.
Natural World showcases some of the leading wildlife film-makers from
around the world.
The strand has picked up countless awards since it was
first broadcast in 1983 and is starting a new run on BBC TWO at 8.00pm
on Thursday nights.
Head of the BBC Natural History Unit, Neil Nightingale, says: "These
awards are a wonderful recognition from our peers.
"Wildlife television is an internationally popular
and competitive genre, where the high standard of film-making is continually
raising the bar.
"The two awards for Elephant, Emperor and Butterfly
Tree really demonstrate just how well the independent sector can work
alongside the BBC to produce compelling, top-notch television.
"Here in Bristol since 1957,
the BBC Natural History Unit has been setting new benchmarks in creativity
and quality, documenting both the diversity and fragility of our natural
world for audiences worldwide.
"These latest accolades are testimony to the dedication
and skill of our team, who push the boundaries to get spectacular footage
for some memorable programmes."
The Awards collected were:
Children's Choice Award
China Bears - Really Wild Show (BBC ONE)
ARKive Interactive Award
Life of Mammals (bbc.co.uk)
Granada Award for Animal Behaviour
Cats Under Serengeti Stars - Natural World (BBC TWO)
Editing Award
Missing, Presumed Eaten - Natural World (BBC TWO)
Soundtrack Award
Elephant, Emperor and Butterfly Tree - Natural World
(BBC TWO)
Kodak Award for Cinematography
My Halcyon River - Natural World (BBC TWO)
WWF Golden Panda Award
Elephant, Emperor and Butterfly Tree - Natural World
(BBC TWO)
