The anti-rhino poaching documentary, Saving Rhino Phila, produced by South African company Triosphere for NHU Africa, has won the Wildscreen Panda Award in the Nature Conservancy Environment & Conservation Award.
Panda Award winners were announced at the close of the Wildscreen Festival last week in Bristol, UK. Wildscreen is widely considered to be the top wildlife and environmental film festival in the world and the Pandas are often referred to as the “Green Oscars’.
Saving Rhino Phila’s credits include: Oloff Bergh (executive producer); Kira Ivanoff (producer); Richard Slater-Jones (director); Michael Cleary (DOP); and Kathy Pienaar (editor). NHU Africa’s Vyv Simson was commissioning editor. Actor David James played the head villain in the film’s extensive dramatic reconstructions of rhino poaching.
Here is the list of Panda Award winners:
Animal Behaviour Award
Jungle Book Bear
Films @ 59 Sound Award
Frozen Planet – To the Ends of the Earth
Earth Sciences Award
How to Grow a Planet – Life from Light
Panasonic Cinematography Award
Frozen Planet – Winter
Theatrical Award
African Cats
Music Award
Last Lions
Short Film Award
Secret Life of Plankton
Campaign Award
TRUST Alaska
Script Award
How to Boil a Frog
Disneynature Innovation Award
Hippo: Nature’s Wild Feast
3D Award
Flying Monsters
BBC Newcomer Award
Water Brothers – Valley of the Damned
The Nature Conservancy Environment & Conservation Award
Saving Rhino Phila
Editing Award
The Green Universe
Discovery People and Nature Award
My Life as a Turkey
Presenter-led Award
How to Grow a Planet: Life from Light
Award to promote filmmakers from developing countries
Ganga – Ribbon of Life
UWE Popular Broadcast Award
Meet the Sloths
Series Award
Joint winners – Frozen Planet & Human Planet
Jury’s Special Prize
Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers
New Media Award
Kinect Nat Geo TV – America the Wild
Children’s Choice Award
Super Smart Animals: Episode 1
WWF Golden Panda Award
My Life as a Turkey
Outstanding Achievement Award
Alastair Fothergill
For more information visit www.wildscreenfestival.org
