U-matic video programme for Oxfam Trust India
Co-Producer and Director
Periyar
23 minutes, 1986
16 mm documentary for Sanctuary Films.
Co-Producer and Director
Banking on Crocodiles
20 minutes, 1986
U-matic video programme on crocodile research and conservation.
Co-Producer and Director
Snakebite!
English and Hindi, 27 minutes, 1986
16 mm docudrama.
Co-Producer and Director
Awards: Best Professional Film - 9th Annual International Wildlife Films Festival, Missoula (1986)
Gold Medal - British Medical Association (1987)
Golden Eagle, USA (1987)
A Cooperative for Snake Catchers
English, 20 minutes, 1988
16 mm documentary on the Irula tribals in Tamil Nadu, India. For CAPART, Government of India.
Co-Producer and Director
Awards: Best Scientific Film - 35th National Film Festival, India (1988).
Seeds of Hope
Tamil, English, Hindi and Telugu, 23 minute, 1989
16 mm documentary on why and how to grow a forest nursery. For Swedish International Development Authority.
Co-Producer and Director
Award: Best Agricultural Film - 36th National Film Festival, India (1989).
Silent Valley
English, Malayalam and Tamil, 53 minute, 1991
16 mm documentary on one of India's last rain forests, saved from a hydel project. For Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).
Co-Producer and Director
Rat Wars
English 26 minutes, 1993
16 mm documentary on rats in India. For National Geographic Explorer.
Co-Producer
Treasured Islands
English, Hindi, 1994
An educational U-matic video film on island ecology. For the Centre for Island Ecology, Andamans.
Producer
Keralensis
3 min, 1995
An educational 'spot' on rainforest and wildlife.
Co-Producer and Additional Cameraman
Award: Best Spot - 1st International Video Film Festival, Trivandrum, (1995)
King Cobra
English, 53 minutes, 1996
Super 16 mm documentary on the natural history of the king cobra, the largest venomous snake in the world. For National Geographic Explorer.
Co-Producer
Awards: Nominated for Best Cinematography, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 1997
Best Photography Award, Progetto Natura 8th Stambecco d'Oro Nature Film Festival, Turin, 1997.
Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft-Cinematographers, 1998 News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
Emmy Award for Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement, 1998.
Nominated for Best Animal Behaviour, Wildscreen Film Festival 1998.
Spunky Monkey
43 minutes, 1997
Super 16 mm documentary on bonnet macaques that live in a town in south India for National Geographic Explorer.
Co-Producer
Croc Man
18 minutes, 1998
A DVC film on the Madras Crocodile Bank produced by National Geographic Explorer.
Presenter
Croc Crusader
25 minutes, 1999
A Digi-Beta film on the Madras Crocodile Bank produced by BBC.
Presenter
Thunder Dragon
53 minutes, 1999
Super 16 mm documentary on the natural history of water monitor lizards in Sri Lanka. For National Geographic Explorer.
Co-Producer and Underwater Cameraman
Snake Hunter
53 minutes, 2001
Super 16 mm documentary on the snakes of North America for National Geographic Explorer.
Presenter & Consultant
Awards: Golden Panda for Best Presenter-led program, Wildscreen, 2002
Nominated - Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, 2003
Snake Hunter - Costa Rica
53 minutes, 2001
Super 16 mm documentary on the snakes of Costa Rica for National Geographic Explorer.
Presenter & Consultant
Mugger Crocodiles of Sri Lanka
53 minutes, 2001
Super 16 mm documentary on the natural history of the mugger crocodiles in Sri Lanka. For National Geographic Explorer.
Co-Producer, Presenter and Underwater Cameraman
Croc Chronicles - Sri Lanka
26 minutes, 2002
A show on the burrowing behaviour of mugger crocodiles in Sri Lanka with Brady Barr. For National Geographic Channel.
Presenter & Consultant
Snake Wranglers - Rom Whitaker
26 minutes, 2002
A video documentary on the history of the Irula Snake Catchers' Cooperative Society. For National Geographic Channel.
Presenter & Consultant
Croc Chronicles - Papua New Guinea
26 minutes, 2003
A show on the New Guinea fresh water crocodiles with Brady Barr. For National Geographic Channel
Presenter & Consultant
The King Cobra and I
48 minutes, 2005
A video documentary on Rom Whitaker's work with the king cobra in the Western Ghats of southern India. Icon Films for BBC Natural World.
Presenter & Consultant
Supersize Crocs
52 minutes, 2006
Rom goes in search of giant crocodiles in Africa, America, Australia and India. A National Geographic Channel/WNET/Channel 5 film.
Presenter & Consultant
FEATURE FILMS
The Boy and the Crocodile
Tamil, Hindi and English, 105 minutes, 1989
16mm/35mm feature film set in a village and forest pond in south India for Children's Film Society of India.
Executive Producer & Director
Awards: Silver Elephant - 6th International Children's Film Festival, New Delhi (1989)
UNICEF Best Feature Film - International Centre for Films for Children and Young People (1989)