Celebrating the World Wildlife Day 2021

World Wildlife Day will be celebrated in 2021 under the theme “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet“, as a way to highlight the central role of forests, forest species and ecosystems services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally, and particularly of Indigenous and local communities with historic ties to …

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Planet Earth 2 Jungles – FINALIST for World Wildlife Day Showcase

BBC’s Planet Earth 2 Jungles Episode, producedby Emma Napper, has been nominated in the category “LIVING FORESTS:Long Form” for the 2021 World Wildlife Day Film Showcase: Forest. In this episode there are two sequences that Michael Sanderson ofAteles Films filmed: spider monkeys in Guatemala jungles and river dolphins inBrazil. In this episode is also broadcast …

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Spider Monkey for Sale and Jackson Wild

Exciting news for our short Spider Monkey for Sale and the Jackson Wild! Jackson Wild On Tour shares the best wildlife, nature and science films from the Jackson Wild Summit Awards and from the World Wildlife Day Film Showcase with a larger audience, connecting more people to the natural world through media. The Jackson Wild is expanding screenings …

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Official Selection at Arouca Film Festival – Portugal

 We are very happy to announce that our short Spider Monkey for Sale was official selected for the Arouca Film Festival in the category of fiction.   UPDATE: Spider Monkey for Sale was the screening that opened the Arouca Film Festival on 10th September at 21h15.     For this festival, the judge selected 58 …

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Ateles Films as Pre-selectors at Wildscreen Festival 2020

We proudly share that Ana Luísa Santos and Michael Sanderson from Ateles Films were part of the pre-selection panel for the first ever Official Selection for the Wildscreen Festival 2020. This year and due to the current  COVID-19 pandemic situation, Wildscreen will be a virtual event which will include everything that the international industry expects:  …

Nomination in Green Screen International Wildlife Film Eckernforde

It is with great honour that we share that our short movie Spider Monkey for Sale is nominated for the Audience Award – Best Short Film category in the International Wildlife Film Festival GREEN SCREEN. This festival will take place in the town Eckernförde, in Germany in September 2020. The International Wildlife Film Festival GREEN …

Primates – New BBC series

The BBC new series PRIMATES will premiere tomorrow April, 26th 2020 in BBC1 in UK. The three part series takes viewers around the world for an intimate look at how monkeys, apes and lemurs have adapted to survive. We are also very excited to finally see in this series a few monkeys that for us …

Ateles Films on the German TV Show Wunderschön again!!!

Ateles Films will feature as a guest on the TV show Wunderschön again in 2020! In the episode of this week,   Wunderschön! Romantisches Holland – Zwischen Tulpenpracht und Königskrone,   Ateles Films was invited to talk about the Dutch culture and traditions, to cycle through the dunes and film wildlife and celebrate the Kings Night …