Impala Pictures

Impala Pictures is a 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.

Impala Pictures is currently embarking on an exciting new co-development partnership with Sydney-based Wild Pacific Media, supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise Funding, to develop a slate of ambitious new projects for the international market.

As well as this Patrick is a series director and writer on ZED’s China’s Wild Empire II and co-writer on Le cinquième rêve’s feature length documentary War of the Flowers.

Prior to this Impala Pictures co-produced the award-winning Canada: Surviving the Wild North for PBS Nature and Terra Mater Factual Studios. Patrick was also an executive producer on Brian Leith Productions’ global environmental series The Future of Nature for PBS, BBC Studios and ARTE, and directed a major shoot for a new Disneynature film in production.

Patrick been making award-winning wildlife and environmental films for more than thirty years and has built a strong reputation for powerful storytelling and excellence in film craft. He was an executive producer, series producer and producer/director and writer on 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 including BBC, National Geographic, PBS, ARTE, Discovery and France Télévisions. He also wrote and directed the theatrical film Enchanted Kingdom and giant screen Wild Africa 3D for BBC Earth Films, and 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, as well as a host of other Wildscreen, Royal Television Society, IWFF, BAFTA and EMMY awards and nominations.

He was also awarded 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’.