Jeremy Bristow Go back to People
Jeremy Bristow has recently left the BBC after spending 21 years there, including a decade of programme making for the Natural History Unit as a Producer/Director. This has involved covering many important environmental issues, including the programme Jane Goodall: Beauty and the Beasts, which looks at to pioneering work of Jane Goodall who has observed chimp behaviour in a remote forest in Africa since 1960. The BBC Earth website includes a clip from Jeremy’s outstanding and at times harrowing programme, Ape Hunters, examining the illegal slaughter of gorillas, chimps and other primates in the forests of the Congo basin.
Ape Hunters was a tough film to make but I learnt a great deal in the process. Although we succeeded in linking the hunting of primates, including chimps and gorillas, directly to the activities of the European timber companies, I discovered the situation in Central Africa to be far more complicated. The pre-conceptions that I and my team started out with were seriously challenged - which is just how it should be. The film takes the audience along the same learning curve that we went through, winning eight International Awards.
