Heritage Cases

On the 7th of November I am proposing to launch an expedition to recover certain fossils. During the course of this recovery National Geographic Television and subsidiaries and associates of NGT including Nova wish to begin filming for two programmes to appear on international television during 2014. These two programmes will use the same Director and film crews to film at two locations in the Cradle – the site of Malapa and the UW 101 site. The films are intended as scientific documentaries. Both NGT and Nova are part of not for profit societies (the National Geographic Society and the Public Broadcasting Society) in the United States. The films will cover our work on human evolution, exploration and the recovery and analysis of early hominin fossils and other fauna. Filming will be intermittent and occur over relatively short visits with the exception of filming at UW 101 from the 7th to the 29th of November. We have landowner permission and the approval of the management authority to do this filming. The film crews at this point comprise a Director – Mr. Graham Townsley, two Directors of Photography (one a specialist caving photographer), the chief DP will be Mr. Willem van de Heever. An additional camera person and “fixer” will be my graduate student Ms. Rachelle Keeling. There will also be a sound person and perhaps a grip from time to time. At all times every member of the team will be either under the supervision of me or a senior scientist within my team, and at no times will they be alone on site.