Michael Sanderson
Michael Sanderson | |
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 Michael Sanderson in Guatemala 2013. | |
| Born | March 20, 1983 |
| Other names | Michael J. Sanderson |
| Occupation(s) | Wildlife Filmmaker and Cameraman |
| Website | www |
Michael Sanderson (born 20 March 1983) is a British-Dutch wildlife filmmaker. Starting his career in Bristol on the award-winning BBC series Smalltalk Diaries (2008), he went on to produce a film about Wolves in Chernobyl for ORF/NDR/PBS/BBC. Here, he pioneered using The Red One (camera), for EFP/wildlife productions as well as being one the first to build and use multi rotor video drones for new aerial perspectives. He was one of the first filmmakers that filmed wildlife in 4K in 2008.
Michael’s cinematography can be found in, De Nieuwe Wildernis, which was number one in the Dutch box office and is still the biggest Dutch nature film for cinema ever. Michael has filmed extensively in Latin America for Planet Earth II and BBC Natural World. Michael produced, filmed and edited an NHK Japan wildlife film called The Paternal Bond: Barbary Macaques, which was about the Barbary Macaque in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains. For the follow-up of De Nieuwe Wildernis, Holland: Natuur in de Delta, Michael filmed the closing sequences and the specialist macro using lenses he built himself.
Over the last 13 years, Michael has consistently returned to Guatemala to develop and film Return of the Spider Monkeys (2016) broadcast on Nat Geo WILD and Arte, which follows the life of an orphaned spider monkey called Infinity after she is released back into the jungle of Guatemala. For this film, Michael learned how to climb into the canopy alongside the spider monkeys of the Mayan jungle to film their intimate lives from a perspective never seen before.