Open of Golf and the first live VR broadcast of a major soccer tournament at Levi’s Stadium. Before diving into virtual reality, Tim spent 9 years working in immersive entertainment with Academy Award-nominated MacGillivray Freeman Films, the largest independent producer of IMAX theater films. With the NextVR team, he was part of the first live stereoscopic multi-cam virtual reality broadcast at the 2015 U.S. Editing in virtual reality for both live broadcasts and VOD, Tim is continually improving the VR post production workflow. Most recently for these strands his film My Life as a Turkey was described by The Times as “probably the best documentary of the year” and won David his fourth Emmy, a Grierson nomination, his fifth Wildscreen Panda, and the Teton writing award here at Jackson Hole. From his base at Passion Pictures, David also runs a Green Media Lab that partners with companies like Swarorski, the Nature Conservancy and Alibaba to utilize Passion’s story skills and filming expertise to find ways to communicate critical stories about natural history and conservation to a wider audience.Īs VP of Post Production at NextVR, Tim works at the technical and creative intersection of crafting audience experiences. Working with the BBC Natural world and PBS Nature he pushed at the genre of storytelling with people and wildlife with shows like Gorilla King, Elephants of Timbuktu, and Lost Crocs of the Pharoahs.
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His long-standing relationship with PBS recently culminated in the ambitious conservation series Earth: A New Wild which utilized big budget techniques to present the wildlife of planet earth, but turning the camera round to show the humans in the picture. His ITV series Deep Jungle broke adventure wildlife on UK’s commercial television, and the 90min Ocean Oddyssey merged natural history and computer graphics to realize the depths of the ocean for BBC1. His second film for National Geographic Television Flying Devils won him an Emmy for best cinematography, two years later his Discovery/C4 series Bugworld won another Emmy for best director. A partner in Passion Pictures, David works up a broad slate of specialist factual and feature documentaries, as well as continuing his innovative output of landmark natural history films. He helped to pioneer regional wildlife enforcement networks, including the ASEAN WEN and the Central American WEN.ĭavid Allen has produced and directed landmark natural history television programs for over twenty years. The author of several publications and numerous papers on wildlife trafficking, species conservation, improving wildlife law enforcement and building strong enforcement partnerships, Crawford guides the development of innovative approaches to wildlife trade challenges. He was the leader of phase 1 of WWF’s Wildlife Crime Technology project – the recipient of a $5 million Google Global Impact Award Grant. He is the TRAFFIC leader globally of the joint WWF and TRAFFIC Wildlife Crime Initiative. Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking.He has led TRAFFIC’s black market investigations internationally in dozens of countries and has directly supported strong enforcement action, including some of the largest seizures, major arrests and prosecutions internationally. Most recently he was selected for the Advisory Council to the U.S. Crawford Allan Senior Director, Wildlife ConservationĬrawford Allan is an international expert on wildlife trafficking and trade, with 24 years’ experience in wildlife conservation, policy and regulation.