Elementa Soundtrack released
ELEMENTA Soundtrack – Released today Boreal Taiga‘s ELEMENTA soundtrack has been released today on iTunes and Spotify. Listen now on Spotify” Listen now on iTunes:
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Richard Sidey and Aliscia Young document nature, together
Richard Sidey and Aliscia Young document nature, togetherWritten by Britt Mann | Published July 06, 2020 Richard Sidey, 37, and Aliscia Young, 33, are Wanaka-based documentary film-makers and photographers who met in 2010. Their work, which focuses on the natural world, takes them to some of the most remote and extreme terrains on earth. Richard’s […]
Read MoreThe KFC wins Best NZ Made Film
The KFC wins ‘Best NZ Made Film’ The KFC has won the Hiddleston-MacQueen Award for the best New Zealand film at the 2020 NZ Mountain Film and Book Festival. The KFC will have its world premiere as part of the festival in Wanaka and Queenstown, as well as online (due to Covid-19) at the end […]
Read MoreSilent Filmmaking in the Age of Lockdown
Silent Filmmaking in the age of LockdownAn interview with Lynn Freeman on Standing Room OnlyAired 31 May, 2020 on RNZ National Wanaka filmmaker Richard Sidey’ is offering us the chance to reconnect with the world’s wilderness areas, in his ambitious documentary spanning seven continents and filmed over 5 years. Elementa is the third in his trilogy called Speechless. There’s […]
Read MoreWānaka filmmaker to feature at first major online film festival
Wānaka filmmaker to feature at first major online film festival A short piece in today’s Wānaka Sun about Elementa and the 2020 Doc Edge Festival. Links: The Wānaka Sun | Elementa | Doc Edge Festival
Read MorePublished in The Guardian
A pretty picture for a not-so-pretty picture: My aerial image of Orona Island in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area of Kiribati was published in the Guardian today. Read the full article View more of my images from the South Pacific
Read MoreSpeechless | Great Bear Rainforest
Speechless | Great Bear Rainforest A new Speechless episode from Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest featuring encounters with Spirit Bears, known to the local Gitga’at First Nation at Moksgm’ol (the Ghost Bear). Read the full photo story here Video by Richard Sidey Produced by Galaxiid
Read MoreWild Antarctica
Wild Antarctica Presenting the fragile wilderness of Antarctica. ‘Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.’ – Albert Einstein. Wild Antarctica was filmed and produced in 4K by New Zealand cinematographers Aliscia Young and Richard Sidey during several short expeditions to the Antarctic Peninsula in early 2017. A special UAV permit was obtained […]
Read MoreSpirit Penguin
Spirit Penguin One of the rarest and most beautiful penguins of all! A mesmerising encounter with a ‘Spirit Penguin’ in Antarctica this week. This is a Gentoo Penguin with leucism, a condition in which there is partial loss of pigmentation resulting in white feathers, but not the eyes. Within Gentoo populations it has been documented […]
Read MoreThe Drake Passage
The Drake Passage Crossing the Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica – known as one of the wildest and most fearsome ocean crossings On this particular crossing in December 2016 our seas were an average 5-6m and the winds up to 70 knots, which meant plenty of albatross to observe skimming the waves, which […]
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