July 2024

Unconventional Cinematography Tech Captures Elusive Wildlife

“Wildlife science is a massively underfunded arena,” comments wildlife expert and biologist Forrest Galante. One way around this obstacle is to finance conservation work by selling filming rights to production companies like Galante’s Phantasticus Pictures, a major producer of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Shark Week documentaries and series. Phantasticus produced two specials for Shark Week 2024 — Alien Sharks: Ghosts of Japan and Sharks of the Dead Zone — using an ingenious combination of technologies which, in the past, have offered rare glimpses at some of the ocean’s most elusive animals....more