Through 2020 we’ve had much less travel and adventure than we’re used to here at Big Wave so our Health and Safety Advisor, Ken Law ( http://www.kenlawsafety.com/ ) suggested we took the opportunity to upgrade all our senior staff’s HSE qualifications and do the NCRQ Level 3, Safety for Managers Course. https://www.ncrq.org.uk/ Vanessa Tuson, […]
Posted on: September 1st, 2020
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Our MD, Sarah Cunliffe is one of the mentors on an exciting new initiative launched by National Geographic called the ‘Field Ready Program’. https://realscreen.com/2020/08/03/exclusive-nat-geo-unveils-inaugural-cohort-for-its-field-ready-program/ The program, in partnership with the National Geographic Society, looks to promote diversity and inclusion in global television production. The first class of the Field Ready Program has 10 filmmakers from across the globe […]
Posted on: September 1st, 2020
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Since lockdown the Big Wave team switched to working remotely with us all working from home. By chance, the majority of our shows were in pre-production, and post production so when we got the call from one of our broadcasters to cease all production, and bring our crews home, we came off relatively lightly. A […]
Posted on: June 30th, 2020
Read article »Sarah Cunliffe is the creative director of Big Wave Productions. She talks about the making of the #HelpOurKelp film. It was a beautiful sunny day in July when I first met Sean Ashworth from Sussex IFCA, the Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority. We’d arranged to meet for a coffee to talk about the rise […]
Posted on: October 1st, 2019
Read article »Vanessa Tuson returns to Big Wave as Head of Production. Vanessa has worked with many of the top documentary production companies over a career spanning 30 years, including Malone Gill, Touch Productions, October Films and Oxford Films where she stayed for 12 years and was Director of Factual Programmes. She previously worked with Big Wave […]
Posted on: September 30th, 2019
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This Summer, I set off to Cape Cod on my first shoot. An opportunity to work alongside top scientists and cameramen, and to see Director Nick Stringer in the field! So there I was mid-July, a year and a half after joining Big Wave, out on the Atlantic Ocean… surrounded by great white sharks!!! The […]
Posted on: September 27th, 2019
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After finishing my undergrad in Zoology from Trinity College Dublin I was extremely fortunate to get the opportunity to work as a researcher for a British production company that came over to Ireland to make a series of wildlife documentaries. This project finished up in January of this year, and following that I did some […]
Posted on: August 2nd, 2019
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Anyone who knows Big Wave will know we like blue sky challenges, and that we frequently take on high risk, aspirational projects with very little certainty of what the outcome will be. This was once again true for many of the shows we made in 2018, the most notable being SharkWrecked which saw two ex-military […]
Posted on: January 3rd, 2019
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Last summer the Big Wave team headed to Bimini Island, in the Bahamas, for the robot sub SharkCam’s 5th deploy. Here, Greg Skomal from the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries and Amy Kukulya and Roger Stokey from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) teamed up with the Bimini Shark Lab & Tristan Guttridge for more extraordinary shark […]
Posted on: January 3rd, 2019
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So this was quite a challenging stunt for us… we were recreating what happens when you get shipwrecked, and to do that, first we had to find a way to ‘shipwreck’ a boat without causing any environmental damage. Gas and fuel leaks are a common reason for boat explosions so the Big Wave team, led […]
Posted on: January 3rd, 2019
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SharkWrecked began with a bang and the explosion didn’t end there! The stunt certainly caught the eye of the media with features in the New York Times, interviews on Nightline +++
Posted on: January 2nd, 2019
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Big Wave’s latest production, Shark Croc Showdown, airs in the UK tonight @ 9pm on the Discovery Channel. Filmed on the remote beaches of the Australia’s Northern Territory, presenter Paul de Gelder and a team of scientists investigate reports of sharks and crocs clashing over nesting sea turtles.
Posted on: July 24th, 2017
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