Dale Hancock www.dalehancock.co.zaDale is an international award winning wildlife film maker and photographer working for over 29 years in Africa and across the globe.In 1993, while still studying film, Dale joined the inimitable team of Richard Goss and Kim Wolhuter on the award winning, 83 minute documentary, Beauty and the Beasts, for Natio... Read More

Dale Hancock www.dalehancock.co.zaDale is an international award winning wildlife film maker and photographer working for over 29 years in Africa and across the globe.In 1993, while still studying film, Dale joined the inimitable team of Richard Goss and Kim Wolhuter on the award winning, 83 minute documentary, Beauty and the Beasts, for National Geographic Explorer. This paved the way for nearly a decade of quality blue-chip products with Wolhuter, making content for both Survival Anglia in the UK and National Geographic Explorer. During these years Dale fulfilled many roles, as Second Camera, Sound Recordist, Picture Editor, Sound Editor and Director-in-Post for most of the titles they produced. Their last partnership together, Stalking Leopards, won Dale his first Emmy in 2003 as Sound recordist and Sound Design, as well as an Emmy nomination for Lighting Design for the same film. In 2022 Dale won the Cinematography Emmy for his work on Penguin Town.In 1997 and 2000 Dale also won categories at the coveted Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition run by the BBC Wildlife Magazine and the Natural History Museum of London. These were both images from a 2 year documentary filmed in Etosha, Namibia, (Blackjack: High Stateks) of "Jackal Stretching" (Dusk to Dawn category), and the graphic image of a Scops Owl resting against the tread of a vehicle tyre (Urban and Garden category).Dale is also author and photographer of a detailed book about leopards.Apart from Dale's vast experience as a bluechip natural history film maker, he has also worked extensively on many presenter or character driven programmes.Dale now is an experienced cameraman and editor of all styles of factual Natural History programming, with over 50 National Geographic, Animal Planet, Smithsonian, Survival and BBC and Netflix titles to his credit.Whilst still working extensively in Africa, Dale also now travels to exotic locations by choice. Read Less