Years active 1986–present Name Mike Slee | Role Television producer | |
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Occupation Film directorfilm producerscreenwriter Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science And Technology Programming Movies Flight of the Butterflies, Bugs!: A Rainforest Adventure, The Great Martian War 1913, Meerkat Manor: The Story Beg, Legend of Loch Lomond: I Similar People Richard Hammond, Kirsty Mitchell, John Bett | ||
Flight of the butterflies in 3d director mike slee talks about the film on bbc breakfast
Michael John Slee (born 23 August 1959) is a British film-maker, producer/director and writer.
Contents
- Flight of the butterflies in 3d director mike slee talks about the film on bbc breakfast
- 2013 Flight of the Butterflies Secrets of Filming at the Ontario Science Centre
- Life and career
- Filmography
- References
2013 Flight of the Butterflies -- Secrets of Filming at the Ontario Science Centre
Life and career
Born in Windlesham, Surrey, Slee studied Art & Design at Kingston University, and graduated with a first class honours degree from the London College of Printing in Photography, Film and TV. He first achieved industry recognition for directing James Burke, in the 1989 ACE Award-winning PBS documentary series After the Warming. This prescient series dealt with the issue of global warming, using virtual reality computer simulations.
Slee then directed a 20-part TLC series with Burke, called Connections 2. By 1997 he was at the forefront of large screen IMAX film making, co-devising and directing Wildfire – Feel the Heat for the Discovery Channel, and The Legend of Loch Lomond for the Strathclyde European Partnership. In 2003 he co-wrote and directed BUGS 3D!, a $9 million IMAX 3D natural history drama, narrated by Judi Dench. The film was a semi-finalist at the 2004 Oscars, and was awarded the GSTA Lifelong Learning Honor in the same year.
Slee directed the 2005 British television programme, The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend. In 2008 he directed the feature film Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins, which was narrated by Whoopi Goldberg. Based on the ubiquitous Animal Planet television series, the film was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2011 he began filming the IMAX 3D project Flight of the Butterflies. Covering Dr Fred Urquhart's nearly 40-year-long scientific investigation into the monarch butterfly. Principal filming of the one-year project was completed in early March 2012, The film had its world premiere on 24 September 2012, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Federal government of Mexico, through the Mexico Tourism Board and the Embassy of Mexico.