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Jasper Montana BSc (Honours) DipCreative Arts
Jasper Montana is a zoologist, marine biologist and scientific filmmaker currently based in Bristol, United Kingdom.
He is currently working on the BBC landmark television series Human Planet - an intimate yet epic portrayal of human life around the world - as the Technical Coordinator. To view the Human Planet blog, click here.
On location in Mongolia with Human Planet
Prior to this he was employed by Digital Dimensions in Queensland, Australia, where he filmed underwater and macro-sequences in the Coral Sea and Great Barrier reef, as well as co-directed, filmed and edited Wild Tasmania - a 50-minute conservation film about the Tasmania wedge-tailed eagle - for which he spent 3-months filming in the Tasmanian wilderness, including over 200 hours in a bird hide. To view the trailer, click here.
Brown Booby bird on Raine Island (Great Barrier Reef) and filming on the northwest coast of Tasmania.
Jasper has a first class honours degree in Zoology and a diploma in Creative Arts from The University of Melbourne. His dissertation investigated the anti-predator behaviour of sand-associated octopuses.
Yap, Micronesia, location for one of Human Planet’s shoots and doing a crane shot at a rural cattle station in northern Australia.
As a student, he was the recipient of a number of awards, including the 2008 ATOM Award for Best Tertiary Student Experimental Film for his film Theory of the Game, 2005 International Wildlife Film Festival Finalist Award and 2005 SCINEMA National Festival of Science and Film Best Tertiary Student Film for his film Remember the Tritons, and the 2003 ATOM Award for Best Secondary Student Film for Marine Parks: Managing our Oceans.
Filming with sharks: Richard Fitzpatrick of Digital Dimensions (foreground) and Jasper Montana, at Osprey Reef
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