Wildlife films spy for us into the natural world and bring to the comfort of our armchairs beautiful, moving and breathtaking footage. But animals and nature are unpredictable. Behind their cameras, filmmakers face mishaps, experience fears, apprehensions but also big laughs. Theirs is a world of patience and danger. To find out about these intense moments, let’s turn the cameras on them.

Sharks cutting the cables of the cages protecting underwater cameramen; elephants charging at vehicles; leopards entering the cameramen’s hiding place; hippopotamuses driving zealous cameramen out of the water; male dugongs mistaking photographers for females of their own species to perform a vigorous love parade; cameramen drifting away on an iceberg these are a few of the sequences featured in this documentary.

In this extract, we see how these directors learn from each shoot, each encounter with the animal.


Documentary: Wildlife Filmmakers: Mishaps And Dangers
Directed by: Guillaume Poyet
Production: Saint Thomas Productions for Canal+

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