Fred Kaufman

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    • Member Type(s): Expert
    • Title:Executive Producer, Nature series
    • Organization:THIRTEEN
    • Area of Expertise:Wildlife Film Making
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    My Expertise

      Area(s) of expertise: Wildlife Film Making
      Summary of expertise:
      Three-time Emmy Award-winner Fred Kaufman has been executive producer of the PBS series, Nature since 1991 and has worked on the series since its premiere in 1982. Many of Nature's most memorable presentations have been produced under Kaufman's stewardship, including the acclaimed three-part miniseries Deep Jungle (2005); the landmark eight-part AFRICA (2001); the mini-series, Inside the Animal Mind (2000); and the two hour special Dogs That Changed The World (2007). In 2006, Kaufman won a George Foster Peabody Award for The Queen of Trees - a stunning high-definition portrait of the relationship between the tiny fig wasp and the giant fig tree. In 2008, Kaufman won a second Peabody Award for Silence of the Bees which looked at the global crises of the disappearing honeybees. In 2002, he created and executive produced an urban wildlife series for kids called Wild TV. And in 1994, he executive produced a series of wildlife specials featuring celebrities called In the Wild.

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