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2011 jackson hole
​wildlife film festival

The 2011 Festival competition included 510 films from more than 30 countries entering 800 categories—a record number of submissions competing for 22 special category awards. Nearly 100 judges from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa participated in the preliminary selections. The 2011 award winners were selected by a distinguished panel in Jackson Hole preceding the five-day industry conference held in Grand Teton Park at the Jackson Lake Lodge, and announced at the Festival Awards Gala on Thursday, October 6th.

2011 Winners

2011 Festival Guide

2011 Film Guide

Grand Teton Award

Sponsored by Panasonic Solutions
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WINNER
Broken Tail
Crossing the Line Films & Nature for WNET New York Public Media
Entry # 11072

Special Jury Awards

Sponsored by Aerial Filmworks
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African Cats
Disneynature Productions, Owen Newman & Sophie Darlington, Principal Camera; Simon Werry, Aerial Camera; Simon King Specialist Camera
Entry #11068
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The Story of Everything
Darlow Smithson Productions, Susan Winslow, Ben Bowie, John Smithson, Pete Farrer, Mark Sherwood, Leila Nicotera, Iain Riddick, Dinos Sofos, Jovan Ajder, Rada Danilovic, Phitz Hearne, Ben Harding & Nick Kershaw, Sheridan Tongue
Entry #11371
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Worm Hunters
Gulliver Media Australia, 
Pty, Ltd
Entry #11070

Best Animal Behavior Program

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WINNER
LIFE: Reptiles And Amphibians
BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery Channel, SKAI Open University, & BBC Worldwide 
Entry #11398
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Wings of Life
Disneynature & Blacklight Films, Bliss, Music
Entry #11079
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Leopard Queen
Aquavision Productions
Entry #11452

Best Conservation Program

Sponsored by Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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WINNER
Broken Tail
Crossing the Line Films & Nature for WNET New York Public Media 
Entry #11072
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Project Manta
Kaufmann Productions Pty, Ltd., WDR & ARTE in Association with National Geographic Channel & Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Entry #11010
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Powering The Future:
Leading The Charge

Discovery Studios for 
Discovery Channel
Entry #11370
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Snake Man (L'Homme Aux Serpents)
Reco Films & TS Productions
Entry #11474

Best People & Nature Program

Sponsored by the Nature Conservancy
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WINNER
Human Planet - Rivers: Friend And Foe
BBC Wales, BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery Channel, & BBC Worldwide 
Entry #11159
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There Once Was An Island: Te Henua E Nnoho
On the Level Productions
Entry #11344
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Lion Warriors
Original Godal Productions for National Geographic Channel
Entry #11007

Best Science & Nature Program

Sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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WINNER
Decoding Immortality
December Films, Pemberton Films, & Smithsonian Networks
Entry #11356
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Amazing Plants
Von Matthey Films, Smithsonian Networks, & Parthenon Entertainment
Entry #11329
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Worm Hunters
Gulliver Media Australia, 
Pty, Ltd
Entry #11070

Best Wildlife Habitat Program

Sponsored by FootageBank HD
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WINNER
Radioactive Wolves
EPO Film for ORF/Universum, NDR & Nature for WNET New York Public Media
Entry #11190
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Madagascar: Island Of Marvels
BBC Natural History Unit, Animal Planet & BBC Worldwide
Entry #11332
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Wild Hungary: A Water Wonderland
Azara Film in association with NDR Naturfilm Studio Hamburg DocLights
Entry #11180

Best Earth Sciences Program

Sponsored by Marco Polo
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WINNER
Sea Rex 3D: Journey To A Prehistoric World
N3D Land Productions & Mantello Brothers Productions
Entry #11125
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Haiti's Killer Quake: Why It Happened
Pioneer Productions & Discovery Channel
Entry #11369
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Icelandic Volcanoes: Who Is Next?
Saint Thomas Productions
Entry #11150
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Into Iceland's Volcano
Scandinature Films USA, Profilm & National Geographic Channels
Entry #11468

Conservation Hero

Sponsored by Disneynature
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WINNER
Elsa: The Lioness That 
Changed The World

Brian Leith Productions, BBC
& Nature for WNET New York Public Media
Entry #11270
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Africa's Lost Eden
National Geographic Television
Entry #11375
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Braving Iraq
Aqua Vita Films, Nature for WNET New York Public Media & BBC
Entry #11384
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The Man Who Stopped 
The Desert

1080 Films
Entry #11048

Best Children's Program

Sponsored by Teton Science Schools
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WINNER
The Riddle Solvers: The Shark Riddle
Sisbro Studios & The Save Our Seas Foundation
Entry #11139
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My Pantanal
Panthera
Entry #11017
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Turtle Vision
nWave Pictures Distribution
Entry #11339

Best Limited Series

Sponsored by Terra Mater Factual Studios
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WINNER
Human Planet
BBC, Discovery Channel, France Televisions and BBC Worldwide
Entry #11274
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Life Force
NHK, NHNZ, France Televisions,
Animal Planet and
Science Channels 
Entry #11242
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Life
BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery Channel, Open University, SKAI & BBC Worldwide
Entry #11405

Best 3D Program

Sponsored by GoPro
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WINNER
Flying Monsters 3D
National Geographic and Atlantic Entertainment for 
SKY 3D 
Entry #11470
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Born To Be Wild 3D
Animal Orphans 3D Ltd & Warner Bros. Pictures 
Entry #11411
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Meerkats 3D
Oxford Scientific Films in association with Principal Large Format for National Geographic
Channels and SKY 3D
Entry #11407

Best Cultural Institution Media Installation

Sponsored by North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
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WINNER
Whales To Windmills: Inventions Inspired By The Sea
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Entry #11228
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Natural Selection Game
Denver Museum of Nature & Science 
Entry #11454
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Seeing Death Valley
Death Valley National Park and North Shore Productions
Entry #11456

Best Fulldome Program

Sponsored by Global Immersion
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WINNER
Life: A Cosmic Story
California Academy of Sciences
Entry #11283
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All We Are
Norrkopings Visualiseringscenter & Norrkoping
Entry #11363
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We Are Astronomers
NSC Creative
Entry #11311

Best Hosted or Presenter-Led Program

Sponsored by Animal Planet
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WINNER
Broken Tail
Crossing the Line Films & Nature for WNET New York Public Media
Entry #11072
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Into The Dragon's Lair
Foster Brothers Film for NHU Africa
Entry #11060
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Echo: An Unforgettable Elephant
Mike Birkhead Associates and Nature for WNET New York Public Media/BBC Natural World
Entry #11312

Marian Zunz Newcomer Award

Sponsored by the Discovery Channel
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WINNER
Helgoland:
Island In The Storm
Robert Morgenstern, Studio Hamburg DocLights Naturfilm
Entry #11210
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Albatrocity
Edward Saltau & Iain Frengley
Entry #11298
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Feeding The Problem
Danny Schmidt, ColorBURN Productions, LLC
Entry #11144
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A Wedged Tale
Adam Perou Hermans & Simon Cherriman, AT Films & iNSiGHT Ornithology
Entry #11040

Best Short Program

Sponsored by National Geographic
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WINNER
Finned
Mill Valley Film Group
Entry #11176
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Gloop
Gaby Bastyra & Joe Churchman
Entry #11167

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In The Wake Of Giants
Akua Films
Entry #11247


Best Short Shorts Program

Sponsored by Natural History New Zealand
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WINNER
UN International Year of Forests/Mensch Wald: Inspiration
Traffic Konzept + Film GmbH
Entry #11498
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Animal Beatbox
Damon Gameau, RGM Artists Group
Entry #11478
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Change For The Oceans
Free Range Studios for Monterey Bay Aquarium
Entry #11115
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Manatees Ecofact
Untamed Science & Save Our Seas Foundation
Entry #11200

Best Theatrical Program

Sponsored by Off the Fence Productions
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WINNER
The Last Lions
Wildlife Films and National Geographic, Susan Scott & Candice Odgers, Editors, Alex Wurman, Music
Entry #11042
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African Cats
Disneynature Productions
Entry #11068
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One Life
Magic Light Pictures & BBC Earth Films
Entry #11346

Best Interactive/New Media Program

Sponsored by ARKive
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WINNER
One Ocean Interactive 
Merit Motion Pictures & Tactica Interactive for CBC & The Nature of Things
Entry #11078
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Who Do You Think You 
Really Are?

Natural History Museum, BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Research & Development, TraceMedia, Shadow Industries, IVC, Melford Electronics Ltd., Pentagram, Cultural Innovation, & Wellcome Trust
Entry #11492
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Wild Kratts: 
Whale OF A Squid
Kratt Brothers Company Ltd. & 9 Story Entertainment Inc.
Entry #11451

Best Cinematography

Sponsored by FujiFilm Optical Devices
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WINNER
Life: Challenges of Life
BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery Channel, 
Open University, SKAI &
BBC Worldwide
Entry #11439
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African Cats
Disneynature Productions, Owen Newman & Sophie Darlington, Principal Camera; Simon Werry, Aerial Camera; Simon King Specialist Camera
Entry #11068
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Human Planet: Arctic, Life in the Deep Freeze 
BBC, Discovery Channel, France Televisions and FBBC Worldwide, Matt Norman, Doug Allan, and William Edwards, Cinematography, Nicholas Brown, Writing
Entry #11172
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My Life as a Turkey 
Passion Pictures, Nature for WNET New York Public Media 
& BBC
Entry #11389

Best Editing

Sponsored by Images of Nature, Thomas D. Mangelsen
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WINNER
The Last Lions
Wildlife Films and National Geographic, Susan Scott & Candice Odgers, Editors
Entry #11042
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My Life as a Turkey 
Passion Pictures, Nature for WNET New York Public Media & BBC, Darren Flaxstone, Editor 
Entry #11389
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The Trapper & The Amazon
Triosphere and Animal Planet, Katherine Pienaar, Editor
Entry #11307

Best Original Music Score

Sponsored by Sony Electronics
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WINNER
The Last Lions
Wildlife Films and National Geographic, Alex Wurman, Music 
Entry #11042
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Wings of Life
Disneynature & Blacklight Films 
Entry #11079
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Life on Fire: Pioneers 
of the Deep 

St. Thomas Productions, Jacky Hanouna, Music
Entry #11143

Best Sound

Sponsored by Dolby Laboratories
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WINNER
Serengeti
Studio Hamburg DocLights/NDR Naturfilm, Universum Film, & Intervista, Jörn Röver, Reinhard Radke
Sound Mix/Sound Design: Malte Bieler, Richard Borowski, 
Kai Storck, Carsten Richter
Entry #11001
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Forest Elephants: Rumbles in the Jungle
BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide & Animal Planet
Entry #11156
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Life: Plants
BBC, Discovery Channel, SKAI, Open University & BBC Worldwide, Life Production Team; Tim Owens, Sound Editor; Chris Domaille, Mixer
Entry #11406
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Life on Fire: 
Ash Runners
Saint Thomas Productions, Raphael Andrieu, Sound Editor; Florent Fournier-Sicre, Mixer
Entry #11119

Best Writing

Sponsored by ORF/Austrian Broadcasting
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WINNER
My Life as a Turkey
Passion Pictures, Nature for WNET New York Public Media & BBC, Joe Hutto & David Allen, Writing
Entry #11389
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Butterflies: A Very 
British Obsession

BBC Natural History Unit, 
BBC Worldwide, Simon Bell
Entry #11157
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Human Planet: Arctic, Life in the Deep Freeze
BBC, Discovery Channel, France Televisions and FBBC Worldwide, Nicholas Brown, Writing
Entry #11172
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Life on Fire: Pioneers 
of the Deep

St. Thomas Productions, Loyer & Jo Stewart Smith, Writing
Entry #11143

Special Consideration

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Koala Hospital
Global Briefing LLC, Susan Kelly, Damien Beebe: Additional Cinematography, Dave Hurley, John Freeburn, David Lourie: Additional Editing, Javier Navarette, Lucas Suarez, Amanda Gordon
Entry #11041
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Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice
John Downer Productions, BBC, BBC Worldwide, 
Animal Planet, Discovery, Philip Dalton, John Downer, Michael Richards, Paul Cowgill, Peter Davies, Anna Fuller, Stuart Napier & Imogen Pollard, David Tennant, Will Gregory
Entry #11315
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Bangladesh: A Climate Trap
Knight Center for International, Ami Vitale & Sanjeev Chatterjee, Michael Davie, Ashima Narain, Anshul Joshi & Jennifer Redfearn: Mediastorm, M. Sanjayan
Entry #11322
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The Story of Everything
Darlow Smithson Productions, Susan Winslow, Ben Bowie, John Smithson, Pete Farrer, Mark Sherwood, Leila Nicotera, Iain Riddick, Dinos Sofos, Jovan Ajder, Rada Danilovic, Phitz Hearne, Ben Harding & Nick Kershaw, Sheridan Tongue
Entry #11371

2011 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

Dr. Alan Rabinowitz—Conservation (sponsored by NHU Africa)
One of the world’s leading big cat experts, Dr. Alan Rabinowitz is currently the CEO of Panthera, a nonprofit organization devoted to saving the world’s wild cat species. Prior to co-founding Panthera with the organization’s Chairman, Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan, Rabinowitz served as the Executive Director of the Science and Exploration Division for the Wildlife Conservation Society for almost 30 years.

Dr. Rabinowitz has traveled the world on behalf of wildlife conservation. His work in Belize resulted in the world's first jaguar sanctuary; his work in Taiwan resulted in the establishment of this country's largest protected area and last piece of intact lowland forest; his work in Thailand generated the first field research on Indochinese tigers, Asiatic leopards, and leopard cats, in what was to become the region's first World Heritage Site; and his work in Myanmar has led to the creation of five new protected areas, including the country's first marine national park, first and largest Himalayan national park, and the world’s largest tiger reserve in the Hukaung Valley.

Dr. Rabinowitz has dedicated his life to surveying the world’s last wild places, with the goal of preserving wild habitats and securing homes, on a large scale, for some of the world’s most endangered mammals. His focus on cats is based on conserving top predators, which affect entire ecosystems. By saving cats, the impacts are far-reaching and conserve vast landscapes upon which many species depend, including humans. One of Dr. Rabinowitz's greatest achievements was the conceptualization and implementation of the Jaguar Corridor,  a series of biological and genetic corridors for jaguars across their entire range from Mexico to Argentina. Dr. Rabinowitz also initiated Panthera's Tiger Corridor Initiative, an effort to identify and protect the world's last remaining large interconnected tiger landscapes, with a primary focus on the remote and rugged Indo-Himalayan region of Asia.

Clark Bunting—Media (sponsored by Montana State University Science & Natural History Filmmaking Program)
For more than 25 years, Clark Bunting has been asking a lot of good questions…and turning the search for those answers into award-winning, unforgettable and standard-setting television. As one of the Discovery Founder John Hendricks’ first hires, Bunting has played a pivotal role in almost every facet of program development and production, breathing life into the Discovery brand with a signature mix of industry expertise and a genuine wonder and embrace of the world.  

As president and general manager of Discovery Channel and president of Science Channel, Bunting oversees the flagship network now reaching close to over 100 million subscribers in the U.S. Bunting continues to innovate the natural history genre with leadership and investment in new technologies. In his previous post as executive vice president and general manager for Discovery Channel, Bunting oversaw a number of trendsetting new series, including Mythbusters and Werner Herzog's Academy Award® nominated documentary Encounters at the End of the World.

In addition to all aspects of network programming, Bunting is closely involved with the network’s environmental advocacy and stewardship. As part of the original team that launched SHARK WEEK, Bunting has long recognized the imperative for the network to be part of real issues outside of this pop culture phenomenon. In 2010, Bunting, in partnership with The Ocean Conservancy, worked closely with Senator John Kerry (D-MA) to introduce legislation to further the crusade for shark conservation awareness. Bunting also serves on the board of the American Humane Society.

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