Geoff Deehan is a very experienced, award-winning producer and director with credits from most major broadcasters, both terrestrial and cable/satellite.  His main documentary interests include nature, science, medicine, and technology, and Geoff has also created films on archaeology and art, among others.  His most recent work includes writing, producing and directing four one-hour films for Sky One on the exotic people, places and animals of the Indonesian islands, as well as making a provocative film for Channel 4 about the radical use of the tools of advertising to understand suicide bombers.  Geoff is currently working on a major event for Channel 4, National Geographic, and ProSieben to reveal what actually happens when a jumbo jet crashes.  Previously, he worked at the BBC for 15 years, including eight as Head of Science programmes, Radio.  Following this, Geoff became Science and Medicine Consultant to Channel 4 and produced an environmental series for Granada.  He joined Union Pictures in 1990 as a main board director and Head of Factual Programmes, eventually returning to programme-making in 2003 as an independent producer making a wide range of drama, entertainment, and factual programmes for the international market.  Geoff has written two books, numerous articles, and reports for, among others, The Home Office.  His awards include the Sony Radio Award for best factual series, a BAFTA nomination, and the Royal Television Society award for Best Sports Documentary.

Amanda Feldon is an award-winning producer and director with more than 20 years of experience making documentaries and television programmes all over the world.  Her main interests are human rights, foreign current affairs, conservation and wildlife.  Credits in the latter category, include the multi award-winning series “Crime Scene Wild” for Animal Planet International and Discovery Channel and the award-winning documentary “Tiger Traffic” for the BBC.  Both projects focused on the illegal, international trade of endangered species and the series involved extensive secret filming and covered the illegal trade of tigers, leopards, bears, apes and bush meat, Tibetan antelope, shark fins and elephant ivory.  Amanda’s keen interest in animal welfare and conservation developed in the early 1990s firstly with short films for Channel Four about a British “horse whisperer” and Siberian tiger poaching in the Russian Far East.  This was followed by a series of films for National Geographic Channel entitled “Return to the Wild”, about rescued, orphaned bears in Russia, rehabilitated orangutans in Borneo and relocated elephants in Malaysia.  Later she produced and directed another documentary for National Geographic focusing on the rescue and rehabilitation of grey wolves in Russia as the final episode in the series “Out There”.  More recently she produced and directed a series of High Definition films about giant panda conservation in China for Animal Planet International and France 5 entitled “Pandamonium”, which has just won a Gold Medal at the New York Film and TV Festival.

David Gilbert is an Executive Producer who has produced high quality factual and factual entertainment programmes for more than 20 years. He is a leading executive television producer and has produced for The Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Channel Four, Channel 5 and BBC TV. Most recently, David produced a 20-part series for Channel 5’s flagship series “The Gadget Show”, a series which boasts the Channel’s largest audience of 2 million people per week in the UK, and 20 million viewers in the US. He has substantial expertise producing specialist factual programmes including the flagship “Megastructures” for National Geographic Channel and “Engineering Connections with Richard Hammond”, a six-part series for the Channel in partnership with the BBC. In 2006/7, David delivered a series of programmes for The Discovery Channel’s “Future Weapons”, one of the network’s most successful series which reached a global audience of 200 million viewers. He was also responsible for launching a new channel for SKY TV in 2000, which continues to run successfully today.

Mark Sharman is a cameraman based in the UK with expertise in the adventure, people and wildlife side of documentary filmmaking.  His career has taken him all over the world: to film wolves in Poland for the popular Five/National Geographic programme “The Wolfman”; wattled cranes in South Africa for the Animal Planet series “Baby Planet”; leopards and crocodiles in Sri Lanka for a forthcoming series for National Geographic Wild; the jungles of Gabon, where he spent 36 weeks filming for the Animal Planet series “Gorilla School”; following the Aspinall Foundation’s efforts to reintroduce three orphaned UK captive born gorillas back into the wild, which included filming on patrol with a team of Eco Guards, attaining anti-poaching sequences whilst being shot at.  He has worked with some of the UK’s top wildlife presenters including Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Steve Backshall, Chris Packham and most recently an underwater piece for the BBC One Show with Miranda Krestovnikoff (having gained full HSE diving qualifications in 2003).  Mark is a fitness enthusiast, spending down time from filming by mountain biking, SCUBA diving, running and swimming (a sport which he took to National level). 

Lisha Aquino Rooney began her media career interning at the Los Angeles Times after obtaining her BA in Communications.  She earned her chops in the industry for the next 15 years, both as a writer and in the public relations realm.  Lisha received her MFA from Central Saint Martins in 2006 and is a fine artist who creates paintings, photographs, videos and installations.  Lisha has participated in several group exhibitions in the UK, Europe and the US and had her first solo exhibition, All These Broken Hallelujahs, in California in 2008.  She received an Honorable Mention in the Berenice Abbot Prize for an Emerging Photographer and was twice selected for The Saatchi Gallery Photo of the Week.  Additionally, Lisha blogs on Oomphalos, her widely-followed website about wee ones and their grown-ups.