Alastair Fothergill was educated at Harrow School and the Universities of St. Andrew’s and Durham.  He joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1983.  He has worked on a wide […]

Mark Linfield has had a prolific career, producing and directing many award-winning films, including The Battles of Braveheart, Orangutans: The High Society, The Temple Troop and The Life of Mammals […]

Lisa’s earliest memory of storytelling is of her brother reading to her when she was a toddler. She loved being transported into different worlds and living through another character’s experiences. […]

Shuling holds a degree in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University, Illinois. In 2006, she graduated as Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s most outstanding student, earning a diploma in Mass Communication. Shuling grew up […]

Kaitlin joined the Written on Water team after many early brainstorming sessions with Merri Lisa while Kaitlin worked as the Manager of Photographic Services at American University (AU). Kaitlin currently works for […]

Julia Ocker was born in Pforzheim, Germany, where she studied visual communication at the Hochschule Pforzheim, and later pursued animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. She has directed the shorts Kellerkind (12) (her graduate project), and Zebra (13).

Ted Wood is an editorial photographer and multimedia producer based in Boulder, CO. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, National Wildlife, The New York Times, Outside, The Nature […]

Sophie Lanfear is a producer at Silverback Films, where she has worked on such films as Our Planet and The Hunt. She was previously a researcher, producer, and director for the BBC’s vaunted Natural […]

Mariann Lewinsky Sträuli is a free researcher based in Zurich, Switzerland. Curatorial program series include: Views from the Ottoman Empire (2014), Emulsion Matters (2012), The Great Film Experiment 1900-1918 (2010), Il Cinema Ritrovato […]

Antonio Bigini (born 1980). After a degree in Communications Science at the University of Bologna, he worked as production assistant for Italian companies (minimum fax media, Studio Azzurro), before making […]