Everwild Media is a gathering of passionate filmmakers committed to protecting the natural world. We work across North America, in Africa and Asia, anywhere an urgent conservation issue arises. Our documentary films and short videos expose environmental wrongdoing while showcasing stories of heroes protecting our precious planet.
With this documentary on elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade, we worked hard to make sure it was seen in the halls of power in hopes that laws forbidding the ivory trade would be forthcoming.
Protect Your Water is a campaign of video shorts designed to raise awareness about water quality issues in Florida; "SOS"-- "Save Our State" -- is an episode about conservationists battling impacts of red tide. www.protectyourwater.com
Everglades Guardians is a series of short video profiles of people making a difference in the Everglades restoration movement. Jerry Lorenz looks after the Roseate Spoonbills of Florida Bay.
Three high school students, eight countries, countless endangered species being studied by a conservation cavalry from all over the globe -- A Year On Earth, an unforgettable adventure on the coolest planet ever.
Chasing the Thunder is a high-seas road movie featuring nefarious poachers stealing Chilean Sea Bass (in reality: Patagonian Toothfish), on the run from two relentless Sea Shepherd vessels out to save the oceans.
We created this campaign spot for elephant conservationists in Botswana, who want to raise awareness about threats to elephants since the hunting ban there was lifted.
Film Producer and Writer Katie Carpenter has produced long-form documentaries and multi-part series on conservation, covering wildlife and habitats around the world. Her films have been honored at the Emmys and Cable Ace Awards, and recently won top honors at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Her films for National Geographic focused on elephants, dolphins, whales and evolution, and her series “Ocean Warriors” for Animal Planet featured conservation activists fighting to protect the world’s oceans.
John Heminway is an award-winning filmmaker and author who has produced and written more than two hundred documentaries on subjects as varied as wildlife conservation travel, brain science and evolution. He has won two Emmys, two Peabody Awards, and a duPont-Columbia Award. Most recently, he is known for his exposés of the illicit ivory trade, “Battle for the Elephants” and “Warlords of Ivory”, for National Geographic Channel and PBS. Heminway’s sixth book, In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2018, and he is currently is at work on a new production in Saudi Arabia, “Qiddiya.”
The Everwild Media team is comprised of producers and editors hailing from LA and Nairobi, Bozeman, Montana and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and South Florida. They research their campaign opportunities carefully to choose those with the most urgent need, covering wildlife and wild places closest to their hearts.
Everwild producers have recently produced long-form programs on African and US wildlife, series on the fate of the oceans and endangered species in Asia, short videos for campaigns on clean water and wildlife management, and profiles of conservation heroes worldwide.