Having spent a greater part of my professional life filming abroad - in recent years the monks of Angkor Wat in Cambodia; the plight of the Asian elephant in Thailand; and the story of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunis, aka ‘Banker to the Poor’, in Bangladesh - it was still an unexpected surprise and an honour to be asked to produce a series of short films for CCN about the rain forests of the Philippines. I had been to the Philippines before, some twenty years ago on the peaceful island of Boracay shooting for a travel company, but to be asked to film on the island of Mindanao, the largest, most southernly and allegedly most ‘dangerous’ island in the Philippines was something quite different altogether...
Please click on thumbnails below to see the videos for Carbon Central Networks and the original TV pilot for 'Splash of Colour':
