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DEEP SEA (43’), HD

By presenting exciting new projects worldwide, this film offers insight into recent deep sea research. It shows, that there is still a lot to be discovered on planet earth. Finally, it recognizes that the unknown world of the ocean affects life on this entire planet in ways we never knew before.
It offers new and invaluable insights concerning both the origin and the future of life on earth.


ZDF/ARTE (2008)
by Tim Förderer and Annette Scheurich
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
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THE MYTH OF WOLVES (43’)
Part of the series Mythos Tier (Animal Myths), HD

The wolve today, in history and mythology.

MDR/ARTE 2007
by Marcel Steuermann and Annette Scheurich
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
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THE MYTH OF SHEEP (43’)
Part of the series Mythos Tier (Animal Myths), HD

The sheep today, in history and mythology.

MDR/ARTE 2007
by Rosie Koch and Annette Scheurich
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
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THE MYTH OF CATS (43’)
Part of the series Mythos Tier (Animal Myths), HD

The cat today, in history and mythology.

MDR/ARTE 2007
by Annette Scheurich
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
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MADAGASCAR – Between Magic and Reality (43’), HD
and film for fairs, in-flight videos and trailer

Madagascar is a country of marvels. Fantastic landscapes, bizarre flora and fauna, and people infused with a deep cultural and spiritual love for nature, which is shaped by animal legends, myths, taboos and ancestor worship. Add to that the characteristically good temper of the inhabitants and it is little wonder that more and more ecotourists and independent travelers are being drawn to that fascinating island.

WWF, KFW, Angap 2006
by Annette Scheurich
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
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BIKINI-ATOLL – Paradise Restricted (43’), HD

The islands of Bikini rose from the sea many million years ago, and in the course of time survived countless natural catastrophes. But what does it look like today, 50 years after the destruction wrought by nuclear testing?

ARTE/ZDF, Context TV, 2006
by Annette Scheurich and Marcel Steuermann
Camera: Klaus Scheurich, UW: Jan Hinrich Hoffmann, Lawrence Wahba


"Best Film about water", Green Vision Festival 2007 in St. Petersburg

 
 
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THE MYTH OF HORSES – All the World's Happiness... (43’)
Part of the series Mythos Tier (Animal Myths), HD

The horse today, in history and mythology.

MDR/ARTE 2006
by Annette Scheurich and Rosie Koch
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
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THE MYTH OF EAGLES - Gift of Heaven (43’)
Part of the series Mythos Tier (Animal Myths), HD

The eagle today, in history and mythology.

MDR/ARTE 2006
by Herbert Ostwald
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
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THE MYTH OF BEARS - Teddy's Bigger Brothers (43’)
Part of the series Mythos Tier (Animal Myths), HD

The bear today, in history and mythology.

MDR/ARTE 2006
by Herbert Ostwald
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
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ADDICTED TO FLIGHT (52'), HD

World champion hang-glider Angelo d´Arrigo (†) wants to set a new world first. He is preparing for a flight over the tallest mountain in the Americas, mount Aconcagua, without supplementary oxygen or a motor. The film attends this unprecedented event, from its very inception until the moment Angelo makes his final aerial ascent.

DocLab, National Geographic Channel (2006)
by Marco Visalberghi and Andrea Brambilla
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
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SQUIDS – Hunting for the White Gold (52’), HD

Spectacular underwater recordings of the hidden and largely unknown life of these delicate sea dwellers.

ARTE (2005)
by Owen Prümm and Annette Scheurich
Camera: Owen Prümm

Nomination at the ROSHD Interantional Film Festival 2005, Tehran, Iran

 
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CONDORMAN (3 x 5’), HD

Three short films about a man and his passion: Angelo d´Arrigo (†) pilot, scientist and world-record breaker in hang-gliding facing his last successful challange to learn to fly like a condor.

Part 1: Angelo and his passion for flying
Part 2: Angelo and the condor
Part 3: Obsessed on flying

SWR, DocLab (2005)
by Annette Scheurich
Camera: Klaus Scheurich


   

FLYING FOX – Wings of the Night (52’), HD

The exciting, amusing and shocking natural history of the flying fox, seen from a modern Aboriginal Australian’s point of view.

Australia/Germany ZDF (2004)
Author and producer Annette Scheurich, Director and camera Phil Lomas, Co-producer Larry Zetlin.

First Prize: The best Film in category "Man and Nature", 5. Matsalu Loodusfilmide Festival 2007, Lihula, ESTONIA
Nomination at the Wildlife Asia Film Festival 2007, Singapore
Nomination at the International Television Festival on Urban Ecology 2005, Spain

 
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THE WHITE DIAMOND (87’), HD / Super 16

A film about the daring adventure of exploring the rainforest canopy with a novel flying device – the Jungle Airship.
The Marco-Polo-Film team joins Werner Herzog for an adventurous expedition through the Guyanan primeval forests, where the cameraman rises above the tree tops with a new type of helium-powered two-seat airship - THE WHITE DIAMOND – and delivers stunning scenes from the peaks of the pristine forest, never filmed before.

NDR-Naturfilm , Germany; NHK, Japan; BBC, U.K.; Supported by MDM (2004)
Author and director Werner Herzog.
Camera: Henning Brümmer, Klaus Scheurich


Voted “Best Documentary of the Year 2005” by the New York Times Critics, New York, USA

cph:dox – main award at the Copenhagen Filmfestival, Denmark
"Filled with BREATHTAKING IMAGES."

"One of the greatest and most original of documentary filmmakers."
(J. Hoberman, The New York Times)

"AN INEXPRESSIBLY BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING FILM!" Do whatever you must to see (it). It's an indescribable, haunting human story of airships, disasters, and the mysteries of the Guyanese jungle. No one else in nonfiction filmmaking is doing what Herzog is doing, and no one could." (Andrew O'Hehir, Salon)

"A SUPERB maker of documentaries." (Time Out New York)

"Herzog is at the top of his game!" (DOX Magazine)



 
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THE PET AND THE BEAST – 100 Years of Natural History Perception (52’), HD

Germany , Arte, ARD regional programmes (2004)
Author and director Gerhard Thiel

Award for the Best Use of Footage in a Science or Natural History Production, Focal International Awards 2006, London, UK
Special Award of the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Special Jury Award, (International Wildlife Film Festival) NATURALE 2005, Kusel, Germany
Nomination at Nanook Filmfestival 2005, Palermo, Italy
Nomination at International Wildlife Film Festival Missoula 2005, Montana, USA

 

 
 

WILD EUROPEANS ( 4 x 28’), HD
Four portraits of European landscapes and their natural inhabitants.

1) The Cold North
2) The Hot South
3) Nature Without Bounds
4) The Wild East

VOX, sponsored by the European Union (2004)
Director Annette Scheurich, author Tim Förderer, camera Markus Zeugin

 
 

FANTASTIC CREATURES (12 x 5’), HD
Twelve 5 minute portraits of animals for WDR /Tier hoch Vier, Germany (2004)

Author Tim Förderer, Camera David Hannan

Awards: Best Children Series - Grades K.-5, International Wildlife Film Festival Missoula, Montana 2005, USA
Major Award for best cinematography, ROSHD International Film Festival 2005, Tehran, Iran
Nomination at the 3 rd WAGA Brothers International Festival of Nature Films 2004, Warsaw, Poland

 
 

FANTASTIC CREATURES - The Sea Horse (5’), HD

The world of the sea horse.

GERMANY/AUSTRALIA (2003)
Author Tim Förderer, Camera David Hannan

Official Selection San Francisco Ocean Film Festival 2005, USA
Nomination at medimed 2004, Sitges, SPAIN
Nomination at the Festival International du Film Animalier 2004, Albert, FRANCE
Nomination at 3 rd WAGA Brothers International Festival of Nature Films 2004, Warsaw, POLAND
Nomination at FRAPNA 18 th International Nature & Environment Film Festival, Grenoble, FRANCE
Diploma of Honour at ROSHD International Film Festival 2003, Tehran, IRAN
Nomination at the International Festival of Professional Films, TV and Videoprogrammes EKOTOPFILM 2003, Bratislava, SLOWAK REPUBLIC
Nomination at Living Europe 2003, The Nature and Science Film Festival, Sundsvall, SWEDEN
Nomination at 2 nd WAGA Brothers International Festival of Nature Films 2003, Warsaw, POLAND

 
 
 

A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH (28’)

A report on beaver management in Bavaria.

GERMANY (Arte 2001)
Director Herbert Oswald, Camera Roland Gockel

Nomination at the Internationales Berg & Abenteuer Filmfestival, 2001, Graz, AUSTRIA
Nomination at the International Festival of Professional Films, TV and Videoprogrammes EKOTOPFILM, 2001, Bratislava, SLOWAK REPUBLIC
Merit Award for Conservation Message at the International Wildlife Filmfestival Missoula 2002, Montana, USA

 
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STRANGLER FIGS - The Deadly Grasp (28', 43’)

Trees as conquerors, dramatic events in another dimension of time.

AUSTRALIA (NDR Naturfilm 2000)
Camera Klaus Scheurich

Nomination at the Festival International du Film Animalier 2001, Albert, FRANCE
Merit Award International Wildlife Film Festival Missoula, Montana 2001, USA
Nomination at the Japan Wildlife Festival 2001, Toyama, JAPAN
Nomination at FRAPNA 16th International Nature & Environment Film Festival, Grenoble, FRANCE
Nomination at the Internationales Berg & Abenteuer Filmfestival, 2001, Graz, AUSTRIA
The Golden Book Award, Roshd International Film Festival 2001, Tehran, IRAN
Nomination at Naturvision 2002, Neuschönau, GERMANY
Nomination at the 2 nd WAGA Brothers International Festival of Nature Films 2003, Warsaw, POLAND

 
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THE MONKEY ALLIANCE (43’)

An extraordinary society of primates.

Ivory Coast, ARD/NDR (1999)
Author Annette Scheurich, Director/Camera Klaus Scheurich

 
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THE YEAR OF THE HAMSTER (28’)

Survival in an industrial landscape.

GERMANY, ZDF (1999)
Author Annette Scheurich, Director/Camera Klaus Scheurich

Gold Medal Award, NATURALE 2000, Kaiserslautern, GERMANY
Crystal Eagle/European Award, European Film Festival Valvert, Bruxelles 2000, BELGIUM
The Vattenfall Environemental Award, Wildlife Europe 1999 Festival, Sundsvall, SWEDEN
Gold Medal Award, International Wildlife Film Festival NATURALE 2000, Kaiserslautern, GERMANY
Merit Award, International Wildlife Film Festival Missoula, Montana 2000, USA
Nomination at the Festival International du Film Animalier, Albert, FRANCE
Nomination at the Internationales Berg & Abenteuer Filmfestival Graz, AUSTRIA

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THE ENCHANTED FOREST OF THE PYGMY HIPPOPOTAMUS (52')

First pictures ever of the wild pygmy hippopotamus in its natural environment.S

IVORY COAST, ARD/NDR (1998)
Author Annette Scheurich, Director/Camera Klaus Scheurich

Merit Award, International Wildlife Film Festival Missoula, Montana 1999, USA
Bronze Medal Award, International Wildlife Festival NATURALE 1999, Bad Dürkheim, GERMANY

 
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KOALA DREAMS- Tales of the Old Growth Forest (52') (43’)

Nature as part of Dreamtime.

AUSTRALA, ARD/NDR International (1997)
Author Annette Scheurich, Director/Camera Klaus Scheurich

Merit Award, International Wildlife Film Festival Missoula, Montana 1998, USA

 
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KANGAROOS - First Time Leaving the Pouch (15')

How Kangaroos raise their young.

AUSTRALIA (ZDF 1996)
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

Silver Medal Award, NATURALE 1997, Bad Dürkheim, GERMANY

 
 
 

KOALAS – Eucalyptus Only, Please (15’)

Koala as food specialist.

AUSTRALIA (ZDF 1995)
Author Annette Scheurich, Director/Camera Klaus Scheurich

Honor's Award, BIOVISION 1996; Düsseldorf, GERMANY

 
 
 

SAVE THE WEST AFRICAN FORESTS

6 Documentaries on nature protection and sustainable use of the rain forests.

IVORY COAST (GTZ 1995)
Author Annette Scheurich, Director/Camera Klaus Scheurich

 
 
 

AMAZONIAN RIVER WOLVES (45’)

Spectacular journey into the realm of the giant otter.

The Manu National Park is one of the last retreats of the giant otter. It is two meters in length and used to be found all over the Amazonas region. The two zoologists Elke Staib and Christof Schenck spent three years studying the giant otters. This film, produced in 1992 under most difficult conditions, features the life of giant otters and the work of the two biologists.

PERU (1993)
Script and director: Christof Schenk, Elke Staib
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

Bronze Medal Award, International Wildlife Film Festival NATURALE 1996, Kusel, GERMANY
 
 

GIANT OTTER IN PERU (15')

Jungle lakes, habitat of the Giant Otter

PERU (ZDF 1993)
Author Annette Scheurich, Director/Camera Klaus Scheurich

Bronze Medal Award, International Wildlife Festival NATURALE 1996, Kusel , GERMANY

 
 
 

GORILLAS IN ZAIRE (12’)

Nature Conservation Program for the Eastern Lowland Gorilla.

ZAIRE (ZDF 1992)
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
 
 

TRANS AFRICA WITH KID AND CAMERA (4 x 45’)

Trans Africa, from Marocco cross-continent to CapeTown 1989-1991.

AFRICA (SWF, 1991)
Author Annette Scheurich, Director/Camera Klaus Scheurich

 
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THE SULTAN OF ZINDER

A traditional monarch and his entourage

NIGER, ZDF (1990)
Camera Klaus Scheurich

 
 
 

THE TREASURE OF THE SUGAR LAKE

The course of a year in a man-made biotope

GERMANY, ZDF (1988)
Camera Klaus Scheurich

 
 
 

MAURITIAN BLUE (43’)

Charming Island in the Indian Ocean

MAURITIUS (1987)
Camera Klaus Scheurich

 
 
 

VIENTOS BLANCOS (28’)

Para gliders risking their lives at the Aconcagua Mountain.

ARGENTINA, ZDF (1986)
Camera: Klaus Scheurich

 
 
 

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