At Passion Planet, David Allen masterminds a film department focusing on natural history, science and specialist factual output across both landmark television and theatrical release feature documentaries. With five Emmys and 12 Wildscreen Pandas to his name, David is recognized as one of the leading independent producer/directors in his field. His production for BBC, My Life as a Turkey, was described by The Times as “probably the best documentary of the year” and won Wildscreen’s coveted “Best of Festival” Golden Panda. More recent productions include the landmark series Earth: A New Wild and H20: The Molecule that Made Us, each winning consecutive year Wildscreen’s Best Series award. Recently David produced Emmy award-winning The Serengeti Rules, The Octopus in My House, and My Garden of a Thousand Bees, chosen to open the 40th anniversary year of PBS series Nature and also won the Golden Panda in 2022. At Passion, David has just completed a new Evolution series for PBS and a drama documentary on the bestselling book Wilding by Isabella Tree, which was the biggest grossing documentary in the cinema in the UK in 2024.

Martin Dohrn is an award-winning filmmaker who has been producing specialist landmark natural history films for over 30 years. Martin’s credits extend to director, producer, cinematographer, and writer, but today he is more focused on camerawork and storytelling. During this time, he has devised game-changing techniques in low-light and macro filming, allowing audiences remarkable new insights into the natural world. Leading the field with his range of world-renowned tech, he developed a Colour Starlight Camera, delivering color footage from some of the darkest locations on Earth, and Frankencam – micro-motion control for filming small things in the wild. Martin’s ground-breaking films include Mara Nights for BBC, BAFTA nominated Killer Ants for BBC / Discovery, Night of the Lion for National Geographic and BAFTA nominated David Attenborough’s Light on Earth for Terra Mater Factual Studios, CuriosityStream and BBC. The National Geographic film Great Migrations earned him an Emmy for craft cinematography, adding to the multiple awards for his innovative children’s series Smalltalk Diaries. Martin’s latest film, My Garden of a Thousand Bees was yet another venture into new territory, as wild bees needed a whole new range of techniques and lenses to bring them within range of the average viewer. This film, made with David Allen and Gaby Bastyra at Passion Pictures, sees him acting as a sort of presenter as well, and has won prizes in many film festival categories around the world, including a Golden Panda at Wildscreen and the 2022 AAAS Kavli award for science journalism. THE BIRDS, made with the same team as My Garden of a Thousand Bees, is a subject that has long been a dream of his – but that a busy career has kept from him.