Dina Mufti Go back to People
Dina Mufti, Assistant Producer on Mountains, Researcher on Arctic for Human Planet.
Dina grew up dreaming of the mountains. But it's the people who live in them that have captured her imagination on Human Planet.
Practice came early. With a Bengali – English heritage she spent her childhood around colourful characters on her grandfather’s veranda, chewing sugar cane and conjuring up stories about his visitors.
From that veranda she planned her life as an explorer, starting with the Himalaya – just a stones throw from the steamy Bengali plains. She got side-tracked for a while becoming a scientist at Cambridge University, but never lost her love of unusual people. Whilst at Cambridge, some volcanologists spotted her eye for the dramatic and employed her to film them. Filming a volcanic eruption got her a job at the BBC. She has worked for BBC Radio 4 and across a range of arts, science and observational documentaries, earning her a BBC award for creativity.
Her passion for mountains and volcanoes has prepared her well for the extreme challenges of filming on the Human Planet Mountains team, but it has been the people she’s met who have touched her most .
From watching a young eagle hunter catch his first fox; to seeing a blind cataracts patient getting her eyesight back; and witnessing a Sky Burial in the High Himalaya – these have been the most extraordinary and rare human experiences of her life.
Dina grew up dreaming of the mountains. But it's the people who live in them that have captured her imagination on Human Planet.
Practice came early. With a Bengali – English heritage she spent her childhood around colourful characters on her grandfather’s veranda, chewing sugar cane and conjuring up stories about his visitors.
From that veranda she planned her life as an explorer, starting with the Himalaya – just a stones throw from the steamy Bengali plains. She got side-tracked for a while becoming a scientist at Cambridge University, but never lost her love of unusual people. Whilst at Cambridge, some volcanologists spotted her eye for the dramatic and employed her to film them. Filming a volcanic eruption got her a job at the BBC. She has worked for BBC Radio 4 and across a range of arts, science and observational documentaries, earning her a BBC award for creativity.
Her passion for mountains and volcanoes has prepared her well for the extreme challenges of filming on the Human Planet Mountains team, but it has been the people she’s met who have touched her most .
From watching a young eagle hunter catch his first fox; to seeing a blind cataracts patient getting her eyesight back; and witnessing a Sky Burial in the High Himalaya – these have been the most extraordinary and rare human experiences of her life.
