Impala Pictures

Impala Pictures is a production company based in Bristol, UK headed up by documentary film-maker Patrick Morris.

It specializes in independent co-productions about wildlife and the environment for film and television, bringing together the very best talent in the industry to make films of distinction to the highest editorial standards.

Recent co-productions include the award-winning Canada: Surviving the Wild North with Brian Leith Productions and River Road Films for PBS Nature and Terra Mater Factual Studios, and a series of presenter-led films for the prime-time BBC One Show.

Impala Pictures is currently co-developing several new projects with Brian Leith Productions in the UK and with Wild Pacific Media in Australia, supported by Screen Australia’s 2023/4 Enterprise Business program.

Patrick is also an executive producer on the Brian Leith Productions global environmental series The Future of Nature for PBS, BBC and Arte, in production, and a producer and writer on Le cinquième rêve’s feature length documentary War of the Flowers. He was also assistant writer on the animated feature film Ozi: Voice of the Forest, coming to cinemas this autumn, and helped field direct and write a new Disneynature film in production.

Prior to this Patrick was an executive producer, series producer and producer/director on many landmark natural history series including China’s Wild Empire, The Age of Nature, Kalahari: Land of Secret Alliances, Mexico: Earth’s Festival of Life, Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise, Wild West, Yellowstone, Life, British Isles: A Natural History, Wild Europe and Wild Africa for broadcasters such as BBC, National Geographic, Discovery and France Télévisions. He also produced and wrote over a dozen wildlife specials such as Dune, Hokkaido: Garden of the Gods, People of the Sea, Africa’s Paradise of Thorns, The Lions Share, Wings over the Serengeti and Islands in the African Sky.

Patrick’s films have received the highest accolades in the industry, twice winning Best of Festival at Jackson Wild and three times Best Limited Series and many other Wildscreen, Royal Television Society, IWFF, BAFTA and EMMY awards and nominations.

He also won a Peabody from the University of Georgia with the festival director describing his film Galapagos: Born of Fire as ‘a stunning blend of visuals, music and narration … one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen’.