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Alastair Fothergill studied zoology and joined the BBC Natural
History Unit in 1983, working on The Really Wild Show, Wildlife on
One and David Attenborough's The Trials of Life. He was appointed
head of the Unit in 1992, and during his tenure he produced
Attenborough's award-winning series Life in the Freezer. He was
awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and
Award in 1996.
In June 1998, he stood down as head of the Natural History Unit to
concentrate on his work as series producer, initially on the
multi-award-winning The Blue Planet,. In 2006 he completed his next
major series Planet Earth, which won the Cinema for Peace Clean
Energy Award at the Cinema for Peace Gala Berlin in 2008. He was
executive producer of Frozen Planet (2011) and The Hunt (2015). He
has also presented several television programmes, including The
Abyss.
In 2008, he signed a multi-picture deal with newly formed
Disneynature. In 2012 he left the BBC to co-found Silverback Films,
which makes landmark natural history series for various clients
including Netflix and the BBC.
In 2016, Alastair was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society
for his work in natural history programming. He was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019
Birthday Honours for services to film.
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