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.
OUR LATEST PROJECTS
RACE TO ZERO
Focuses on the story of the scientists and engineers who are on a mission to test the safety and effectiveness of controversial yet potentially life-saving ocean-based climate solutions.
FATAL WATCH
Weaves the stories of four marine observers and investigators in Ghana, Fiji, Panama and the US, exposing the true cost of overfishing.
BEYOND PESTICIDES
One town in Florida decided to get serious about reducing the use of pesticides in their community — for the kids, the pets, for everyone. With the help of Beyond Pesticides, local advocates produced this short video as a pilot for other towns to follow suit and build support for the cause.
Elephant Impact Video
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
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
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.
A YEAR ON EARTH
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.
Emmy-nominated
CHASING THE THUNDER
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.
RISING SEAS
Audubon and Everwild Media collaborated on a series of videos about rising sea level and its impact on beaches and birds, to be used as engagement tools in discussions with local government leaders.
The Team
Katie Carpenter
Katie Carpenter is an award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in ocean conservation and climate change stories. She is currently producing “Fatal Watch” and “Race To Zero” on subjects related to global oceans. She also worked on “Ocean Warriors”, a six-hour series filmed for Animal Planet and “Chasing the Thunder”, a feature doc about illegal fishing. Back on land, Carpenter produced three docs in Africa, “Battle for the Elephants”, “Warlords of Ivory” and “Bones of Turkana” with Richard Leakey, which aired on PBS and the National Geographic Channel. Her feature doc “A Year on Earth” for Discovery Networks was nominated for an Emmy.
John Heminway
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.
JOSH COOK
John Maidman
Fiona Tande
ABBEY WENGER
Brady Valashinas
+ MORE to come
OUR WORK
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.
We filmed all over the world in all five oceans for OCEAN WARRIORS, a series about ocean conservation activists, created by Brick City TV for Vulcan and Discovery/Animal Planet.
We produced this film exploring the mysteries of human evolution, featuring the work of the Leakey family and other fossil hunters in northern, Kenya.
The Everglades Guardians are people who have dedicated their lives to protecting that swampy, magical place and all of its slimy, furry and feathered inhabitants in South Florida.
Everlands -- a bold initiative to try to identity and unify the most beautiful natural places on the planet. Bristol Bay, Alaska, is one of those -- and yet it is today under threat.
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.
