Dereck Joubert Welcomed as New ASC Member
The cinematographer's credits include Emmy award-winning work for Reflections on Elephants, Great Migrations and Eye of the Leopard.
Botswana-based
wildlife filmmaker Dereck Joubert, ASC was born in Johannesburg and earned a
degree in ecology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His early work as a
wildlife ranger in South African reserves sparked a lasting interest in lion
behavior, and he is also an author, conservationist and National Geographic
Explorer-at-Large.
His
older brother, artist and conservationist Keith Joubert, has been a lifelong
inspiration, and AC magazine and the 1980 American Cinematographer
Manual proved invaluable resources when he decided to try his hand at
filmmaking. With his wife, Beverly, he has co-produced more than 40 films for
National Geographic; he serves as writer and cinematographer, she as sound
recordist. In 2017, the couple survived a near-fatal Cape buffalo attack in
Botswana’s Okavango Delta.
His
credits include Okavango: River of Dream, Birth of a Pride: Lion
Conservation, The Last Lions, Big Cat Odyssey and Eye of
the Leopard.
He
won a Primetime Emmy for Reflections on Elephants and News &
Documentary Emmys (shared with several collaborators) for Great Migrations and
Eye of the Leopard.
Find
his website here and his Instagram
here.
View
the current ASC membership roster here.
