Our Work
Primal Earth Films is a premier production company with more than two decades of experience in crafting compelling, cinematic factual programming. Delivering over 150 hours of acclaimed natural history and documentary content for leading US and European broadcasters, we combine world-class storytelling with technical excellence.
Our experienced team provides comprehensive production services, including high-end gear rentals and strategic co-productions. We support fellow filmmakers and production partners in securing optimal resources and realizing ambitious visions with uncompromising quality and efficiency.
Through close collaboration with our multi-Emmy® Award-winning European partners and an extensive international network of production companies, Primal Earth Films consistently delivers premium, globally resonant programming that meets the highest standards of major streaming platforms and broadcasters.
Rainforest Rewild
Story Surge Films / Bamboo Doc
ARTE / Discovery and other.
Line Producer / Development
Rainforest Rewild is a cinematic 2 x 52-minute wildlife series set in the rainforests of Central America, where jaguars, monkeys, macaws, peccaries, frogs and turtles are doing something extraordinary: rebuilding the forest themselves. Through rare, never-before-filmed behavior, the series reveals how animals restore fragmented habitats, reconnect ecosystems, and become the true conservation heroes of the rainforest.
Cutting the Line
Story Surge Films
Discovery Channel +
Line Producer / Development
Cutting the Line follows Naude and Katja Dreyer as their spontaneous seal rescues on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast grow into a full-time fight against ocean plastic. Raw, urgent and deeply human, it is the story of one family confronting a global crisis, one entangled animal at a time.
Oslo - The Wild Heart of Norway
Terra Mater Studios / Story Surge Films
Line Producer / Associate Producer
The Wild Heart of Norway is a cinematic documentary set entirely in Oslo, Norway’s capital. Yet it is not a film about people. It’s about the animals — wolves, foxes, badgers, moose, peregrine falcons, salmon, mink, and beavers — that thrive in the seams of city life.
Life on Our Planet
Netflix
Gear Rental / Support
Awards
Emmy® Winner
Royal Television Society West of England Awards
The story of life's epic, 4 billion-year journey on Earth, told through its rolling dynasties, its underdogs and the cataclysmic events that reshaped it.
Planet Earth 3
BBC / Emmy® Nominee
Gear Rental / Support
Awards
Emmy® Winner
Royal Television Society West of England Awards
Royal Television Society,UK
Shanghai International TV Festival
HMMA Award
Discover amazing landscapes, the most amazing fights of animals on our planet, from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans, from the darkest caves to the hottest deserts with new technology.
A Real Bugs Life
Disney PLUS
Gear Rental / Support
Awards
Wildscreen Festival - Panda Award
Kidscreen Award
Green Screen international Wildlife Festival - Winner
Adventure into nine different micro bug worlds around the globe, where the forces of nature play out on a miniature scale and where tiny creatures rely on powers and extraordinary alliances to make it through each day.
The Wild Sides
BBC America & Terra Matter
There are two sides to every story - one wild tale told from different perspectives in each episode.
Cinematographer / Gear Rental / Support
Amsterdam De Wilde Stad
EMS Films / Cinematic Release
Cinematography
Awards
Goude Film Award
Matsalu Nature Festival - Winner
The city Amsterdam from the unique perspective of the many wild animals and plants that inhabit it. Seen through the eyes of the adventurous urban cat, Abatutu.
Holland Natuur in de Delta
EMS Films / Cinematic Release
Cinematography
Awards
Goude Kalf
Goude Film Award
Netherlands Film Festival - Audience Award Winner
This is the second instalment of a trilogy of Dutch nature pics for the entire family. Helped by impressive visual techniques, the film zooms in on extraordinary and colourful fauna that after years, sometimes even centuries, has returned to our delta. The white-tailed eagle, the beaver, the hare, the stickleback and the scarce large blue; numerous unique species occupy their place again. A rediscovery of the Netherlands, at a time when the creative forces of nature are fully utilised again.
Superbirds - The Secret Life of Tits
AltyaFilms
Cinematography / Gear Rental
Awards
Green Screen Naturfilmfestival - Winner - Best Story
Matsalu Nature Film Festival - Winner - Special Price
Tits are intelligent, adaptable and sometimes cheeky. They are among our best-known and most popular domestic birds. Whether in the garden, in the forest or in the city, they can be found everywhere, chirping their song from the trees. We seem to know them very well – and can’t imagine a world without tits. But what do we really know about these common birds? Much of their life remains hidden from us. Do they have everyday problems, neighborhood disputes and jealousy dramas? It's time we take a closer look at the lives of our feathered friends, because no two tits are alike!
Cecil The Legacy of a King
Lion Mountain Media / National Geographic Channels
Cinematography
Awards
ITFFA - Gold Award for best Doc and TV
Hwange’s lions are rumored to be some of the biggest wild lions on the planet. One magnificent beast was destined to become one of Africa’s most famous animals. He was known as Cecil. While his demise at the hand of hunters was splashed across the media, sparking fury in all who heard his tale, Cecil’s story before he was posthumously iconized is worthy of celebrating.
Battleground - Rhino Wars
Lion Mountain Media / Animal Planet
Cameraman
A war is raging just outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Each year, nearly 700 rhinos fall prey to poachers over the commercial demand for rhino horns, an exotic commodity more valuable than gold. With park rangers being murdered trying to protect the wildlife, former U.S. Special Operatives go on the front lines to help defeat the poachers before the rhinos become extinct.
African Wild 3D
Lion Mountain Media / 3Net
Stereographer
African Wild is a 3D nature documentary eight episode series produced for the 3Net 3D channel (Partnership between Discovery, Sony and IMAX). It followed African wildlife, showcasing the survival strategies of predators and prey in 3D.