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 co-produced the award-winning special Canada: Surviving the Wild North for PBS Nature and Terra Mater Factual Studios, and a series of films for the BBC One Show. The company is now co-developing some exciting new projects with international partners.

Patrick is also series director and producer/director on ZED’s landmark series Wild Treasures of China and co-writer and consulting producer on Le cinquième rêve’s feature length documentary War of the Flowers.

Prior to this Patrick was an executive producer on the Brian Leith Productions’ global environmental series The Future of Nature for PBS, BBC Studios and Arte and a script consultant and field director on Silverback Films’ Disneynature feature Sea Lions of the Galapagos for Disney+.

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 the landmark series China’s Wild Empire, The Age of Nature, Kalahari: Land of Secret Alliances, Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise, Mexico: Earth’s Festival of Life, Wild West, Life, British Isles: A Natural History, Wild Europe and Wild Africa for clients including BBC, National Geographic, PBS, Arte, Discovery Channel, France Télévisions, Blue Ant Media, ORF and ZDF.

Patrick also wrote and directed the BBC Earth theatrical film Enchanted Kingdom and giant screen Wild Africa 3D, and has produced and written 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, Cheetahs: the Winning Streak, 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 four Wildscreen pandas, three Best of Festival awards at IWFF Missoula, and a host of other Royal Television Society, BAFTA and EMMY awards and nominations.

His work was also honoured with a Peabody award 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’.