NHU AFRICA commissions and
produces
approximately 100 hours per
annum of natural history and wildlife documentary series and one-off
specials. Please see the list below of productions currently
available for acquisition.
In the south east of the African continent south of Kilimanjaro lies
the highest mountain range, the Maloti-Drakensberg or Dragon Mountains!
Like the giant beast after which it is named, this impressive wall of
basalt stretches its scaly spine out over 300kms, soaring at times to
heights of 3 000 metres and levelling off
into the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. As formidable as these mountains
may seem, they have become a living landscape with the energy of people
from the past and present interacting with mythical creatures,
supernatural beings and nature. This is a haunted landscape in which
the secular and sacred meet and meld; one in which every waterfall,
pool and rock is imbued with value and intent. As a result, those who
walk on these mountains are reminded of a primordial world; when
continents were molded from a huge land mass with Africa at its core.
This film explores a whole new dimension of geological and
paleontological wonders; the viewer is taken into the mists of time to
a period of marshy swamplands. A period followed by a long stretch of
drought culminating into volcanic activity.
An entrancing documentary of emotive viewing which transports viewers
to fossilized remnants of Massospondylus and its un-hatched eggs that
contain the oldest dinosaur embryos in the world; a tangible testimony
to a tragedy that happened to dinosaur species whose life on earth
still raises scepticism.
