Impala Pictures

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

Patrick is an executive producer, writer and producer/director who has been making award-winning wildlife documentaries and theatrical films for more than thirty-five years. He has built a strong reputation for powerful storytelling and excellence in film craft, and his films have received the highest acclaim in the industry, including two Best of Festival awards at Jackson Wild.

Patrick is currently working on a landmark 4-part series Wild Treasures of China, a 90’ feature documentary War of the Flowers and a 5-part series yet to be announced. He is also a mentor and executive producer on a new project for NEWF in Africa.

As well as providing his services as a top creative, Impala Pictures collaborates on independent co-productions for international film and television. The company recently co-produced Canada: Surviving the Wild North for PBS and Terra Mater Factual Studios and has a new 50’ film heading into production later this year.

Prior to this Patrick was executive producer, series producer, director and writer on many ambitious series including The Future of Nature, Europe’s Wild Kingdoms, China’s Wild Empire, The Age of Nature, Wild Tales from the Farm, Kalahari: Land of Secret Alliances, 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, CCTV, ARTE, Discovery, France Télévisions, Blue Ant Media, ORF and ZDF.

Patrick wrote and directed the BBC 3D theatrical film Enchanted Kingdom and giant screen Wild Africa and was a consulting writer and field director on Disneynature’s Sea Lions of the Galapagos. He also produced and directed more than a dozen wildlife specials including Dune, Hokkaido: Garden of the Gods, Grizzly, People of the Sea, Africa’s Paradise of Thorns, The Lions Share, Wings over the Serengeti and Islands in the African Sky.

His work has been honoured with five Wildscreen Pandas, three Best Series awards at Jackson Wild, three Best of Festivals at IWFF and 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’.