For decades Ammonite has been developing equipment to explore life in the ocean. This research could lead to a glimpse of the mysterious, 12-metre, 200kg giant squid. Lurking some 500 metres below sea level, these real-life krakens have never been filmed in their own environment. Equipped with radical night-vision cameras and a custom-built stealth rig, the crew lower the cameras and discover an astonishing array of curious creatures and super-sized sea serpents. Could one of them be the elusive giant squid?
Productions
Hunt For The Giant Squid
Night Stalkers
2010 – Nat Geo WILD
A series of four films using Ammonite’s arsenal of night-filming technology: the Starlight, infra-red and thermal cameras we set out to document the night activity of large predators in Kenya, Sri Lanka and Costa Rica.
Smalltalk Diaries
2006 – CBBC
Smalltalk Diaries is a series of ten short, humorous shows about the lives of minibeasts. It won awards internationally; for Innovation, Best Short Programme, Best Children’s Programming and, in 2008, Smalltalk Diaries won the Best Series Award at Wildscreen.
Jaguar Ambush
2010 – Nat Geo WILD
Ammonite has made several films in Costa Rica, this latest was our biggest challenge yet: the film tells the story of how we built a tower in the forest, rigged two 500m cables above the forest canopy and filmed the elusive wildlife that lives in this beautiful part of the world.
City of Ants
Nat Geo TV for Nat Geo Channel, 2010
Award for Scientific Content, USA. Award for Technical Achievement, Japan
Night of the Lion
Nat Geo WILD, 2010
Award for Technical Achievement, Japan
Norfolk Broads: The Fall and Rise of a Great Swamp
BBC, 2005
Award for Best Underwater Behaviour, Japan
In Search of Killer Ants
BBC Natural World, 2002
BAFTA nominated for Cinematography
Terminal Velocity
National Geographic, 2002
RTS Award for Outstanding Achievement
Creatures of the Black Lagoon
Survival Anglia, 1999
Balance of Power
Survival Anglia, 2000
A Leap in the Dark
BBC 1998
3 Monkeys
1997, BBC
Mara Nights
BBC, 1996
Crossroads of Nancite
BBC, 1995