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Aug 1, 1998 · With almost 25 years under her belt at the ABC’s NHU, chasing marsupials in the dark and strong-arming financing from the rest of the world, Dione Gilmour has earned a reputation for her sharp...
- Valerie Taylor
- Annette Kellerman
- Tosca Looby
- Karina Holden
- Densey Clyne
- Bettina (Tina) Dalton
- Dione Gilmour
- Sue Flatman
Beginning her career as a professional spearfisher, Valerie Taylor has always appeared more at home in the ocean than on land. With her husband Ron by her side, Valerie began making stunning marine documentaries – educating and captivating the world with Australia’s vast marine life. Valerie and Ron focused the majority of their films on the captiv...
Annette Marie Sarah Kellermann was a woman of many talents – professional swimmer, vaudeville performer, Hollywood actress and, most importantly, tenacious feminist rebel – who was best known for her role as Esther Williams in the 1952 film Million Dollar Mermaid. Overcoming a disability in her legs that left her in steel braces as a child, Annette...
Enchanting her audiences with the recent release of the Magical Land of Oz, Tosca Looby is truly a woman with the Midas touch. After completing her master’s degree in international journalism, Tosca’s enduring passion for natural history eventually lead her to Partridge Films – a British company specialising in wildlife programs. Tosca found her wa...
A qualified conservational biologist, Karina Holden’s work took her to the Great Barrier Reef, the Simpson Desert and the tropics of Northern Australia, before she eventually joined the Natural History Unit of the ABC. Now armed with vast scientific knowledge and cinematic skill, Karina’s love of the wild and film took her to South East Asia, where...
Densey Clyne has been a TV presenter, producer, writer and photographer for more than 65 years, and is best known for her studies of spiders and insects. Densey has 30 books under her belt, has published various academic papers on the subject of invertebrates, and written numerous scripts for natural history documentaries. Densey has written, direc...
Before becoming the executive producer and principal of WildBear, Bettina Dalton was already a big name in the documentary filmmaking industry – occupying the role of managing director at the WildFury production company and as owner of the stock footage company Content Mint. The production businesses WildFury and Bearcage merged to become WildBear ...
Dione was the head of the ABC Natural History Unit for over three decades, producing stunning and insightful documentary films – including The Last Husky (1993), My Country (1994), Nature of Australia – Land of Flood and Fire (1988), andNature of Australia – A Separate Creation(1989). In many of the films she produced Dione took to complete cultura...
Finding her feet in a different kind of science, Sue Flatman graduated from an undergraduate degree in Occupational Therapy in 1967 and undertook postgraduate training in Gestalt therapy – a form of psychotherapy. In 1984, Sue joined Living Pictures – and after undertaking extensive training at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS...
Executive Producer. Producer. Director. Sort: Order: View: Australia - Eye of the Storm. 1999. Documentary. 4 x 50mins. Status: Completed. The ancient land mass of the Australian continent has been battered and buffeted by wind and water over the eons.
Dione Gilmour. In a production role: Nature of Australia – Land of Flood and Fire (1988) — producer. Nature of Australia – A Separate Creation (1989) — producer. The Last Husky (1993) — executive producer. My Country (1994) — executive producer. When the Lights Go Out: Cockroaches, a Domestic History (1994) — executive producer.
Dione Gilmour is known for National Geographic Explorer (1985), Out of the Ashes (2011) and Nature of Australia (1988).
- Producer, Director, Additional Crew
- Dione Gilmour
The first three episodes of the acclaimed nature series “A Separate Creation” tells the story of how the Australian marsupials rose from being primitive insect hunters in the primeval forests of the new vanished super continent of Gondwana, to become the dominant mammal group in Australia.
A visually stunning television series that shows the formation of Australia as an Island Continent and the evolution of our exotic flora and fauna. “A Separate Creation” looks at the development of Australian marsupials, in particular kangaroos.
