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In Memory of Chris Hartley 1959 - 2009.
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Mike Carling
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WILDERNESS ST KILDA
Director/Producer: CRAIG HUNTER / ISHBEL HALL
Description:
IWC / BBC
Presenters Kate Humble, Steve Backshall & Dan Snow explore the natural and social history of this remote island.
Filming also included Sea-Kayaking and Rock-Climbing sequences and a cosiderable amount of Boat-to-Boat work on the open sea.
 
AUSTIN STEVENS ADVENTURES - GRIZZLIES
Director/Producer: JOSEPH MAXWELL
Description:
TIGRESS / DISCOVERY CHANNEL
Presenter Austin Stevens gets up close and personal with Grizzly bears in the temperate rainforest of Canada's British Columbia. Filming also included Helicopter Aerial work.
 
ULTIMATE ROCK CLIMB
Director/Producer: PAUL COPELAND / AMELIA HAHN
Description:
DARLOW-SMITHSON / BBC TV
Presenter Julia Bradbury and extreme sportsman Tim Emmett attempt three classic British rock-climbing routes.
Filming involved a cosiderable amout of exposed working at height.
 
GENIUS: HUMAN FOOTPRINT
Director/Producer: NICK WATTS
Description:
TOUCH / CHANNEL FOUR
Using science and art to illustrate the huge impact each and every human being has on the planet in an average lifetime.
(Nominated by Channel Four for RTS Craft Awards 2007 - Best Photography Factual.)
(Shortlisted - Prix Italia 2007)
(Winner - Banff Film & TV Festival 2008 - Best Environmental Film
 
PROTESTANT REVOLUTION
Director/Producer: JOSEPH MAXWELL
Description:
IWC/ BBC/ HISTORY CHANNEL.
Historian Tristram Hunt uncovers how Protestantism has shaped the seemingly secular worlds of modern art, literature, science and commerce.
 
THE REAL DAD’S ARMY
Director/Producer: JOSEPH MAXWELL / JANE CAMERON
Description:
DIVERSE /CHANNEL FOUR
Presented by Francis Prior.The history of the Home Defence Units and the little known secret army of Auxilliers set up to fight the ‘expected’ German invasion.
 
GOING TO EXTREMES – NEPAL
Director/Producer: WILL ANDERSON
Description:
KEO FILMS / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
[Including filming technical climbing sequences at >300 ft of wild-honey collectors on the cliffs of the Gurung region and filming ice-climbing sequences at >17 000ft on the glaciers of the Langtang Himal area] Finalist - Kendal Mountain Film Festival 2006
 
SPITFIRE ACE
Director/Producer: NICK WATTS
Description:
RDF / CHANNEL FOUR / DISCOVERY

(Incl. Aerial Filming)

Critically acclaimed series on the famous WWII fighter.

 
SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL – KENYAN SAVANNAH
Director/Producer: ROBERT EAGLE
Description:
DARLOW-SMITHSON / DISCOVERY

How to survive in the hostile African Savannah.
Filming also included Fixed-Wing Aerial shooting as well as some natural history work with Rhino, Elephant and Buffalo.
 
WOMEN OF THE TRIBE - NAMIBIA
Director/Producer: JOSEPH MAXWELL
Description:
DIVERSE BRISTOL / BBC
A housewife from Lancashire spends four weeks living amongst the Himba people of northern Namibia.
 
EVERESTS’ LAST SECRET
Director/Producer: ROBERT EAGLE
Description:
CHANNL FOUR /EAGLE FILMS (In production)
(Incl. Filming at >22 000ft on the North Col)
Following a US led expedition as they search for Sandy Irvines’ body and attempt recovery of the expedition camera which perhaps holds the answer to the question : ‘Did Mallory and Irvine summit Everest in 1924?’
 
WILD WEATHER - COLD
Director/Producer: ALEX MORENGO
Description:
BBC TV [Ice-climbing & Skiing sequences]
Ice-climbing and skiing with ski-patrol in Chamonix, as they pre-empt avalanches with controlled explosions.
 
KILIMANJARO – SOAP MOUNTAIN
Director/Producer: KATYA NELHAMS-WRIGHT
Description:
RDF / CHANNEL 5 - 50mins [Incl. Filming sequences at >19 000ft]
Following the efforts of a team as they climb Africas’ highest mountain.
 
BOMBER CREW
Director/Producer: ROB COLDSTREAM
Description:
RDF/ CHANNEL FOUR)
(Incl. Aerial Filming) 4x60mins
Series on WW2 Bomber crews and their training.
 
SECRETS OF THE IRAQ WAR
Director/Producer: ED HARRIMAN
Description:
FILMS OF RECORD / ITV 60mins
In Baghdad just weeks after US tanks took the Iraqi capital. The story of CIA trained Arab spies and their role in the Iraq conflict.
 
FIGHTING THE WAR
Director/Producer: NEIL GRANT / ROBI DUTTA
Description:
BBC TV 6x60mins
Nomination- RTS Craft Awards 2003
Category: Best Cinematography – Factual
2 months embedded with British Forces during the fighting. Unique historic footage: the first ever film of a nuclear submarine on active duty. HMS Splendid unleashes Tomahawk Cruise Missiles into the heart of Baghdad.
 
REAL LIFE: COMMANDO
Director/Producer: DAVID WISE
Description:
LWT / ITV [Incl. Aerial and Underwater filming]

The Royal Marines claim to have the hardest military training in the world. With only half the recruits now making it through the 30 week course, do the instructors need to rethink their approach?
 
REAL LIFE - SIZE MATTERS
Director/Producer: DAVID WISE / ZAC BEATTIE
Description:
RDF / ITV
A shortman who wants to change the world, a short woman who wants to change her legs and a short boy who jus won't grow...
 
REAL LIFE: A GOOD NIGHT OUT
Director/Producer: NICHOLAS O’DWYER
Description:
CENTURY FILMS / ITV
“An intriguing snapshot of life in a Yorkshire town…conveyed through some exceptional camerawork” TIME OUT (Nominated by ITV for- RTS Awards 2000 in Best Single Documentary category)
 
LIVING PROOF: THE FACEMAKERS
Director/Producer: KATIE BAILIFF
Description:
CENTURY FILMS / BBC TV
Plastic surgeons and Nuero surgeons carry out facial/cranial reconstruction in Indonesia and the USA.
Winner - US Circle of Excellence Media Awards 2001 - Category: Medical Documentary.
Finalist - New York Film & TV Awards 2001 - Category: Humanitarian Documentary
 
AFRICAN ER
Director/Producer: ROBBI DUTTA
Description:
BBC
Mercy Ship surgeons perform ‘medical miracles’ in Freetown. As Sierra Leone attempts to recover from the ravages of civil war.
 
MARADONNA – KICKING THE HABIT
Director/Producer: MIKE HEWETT
Description:
DOUBLE BAND FILMS / CHANNEL FOUR
An examination of Diego Maradonna’s fall from grace.
 
GEORGE BEST’S BODY
Director/Producer: DIARMUID LAVERY
Description:
DOUBLE BAND FILMS / CHANNEL FOUR
Biographical X-ray of the famous footballer.
 
TOUGHEST JOB IN BRITAIN
Director/Producer: MIKE MONTGOMERY
Description:
BBC TV - 4x40mins [Filming technical climbing sequences at >400ft also shooting in temperatures >40 Centigrade in the Oman desert]
 
TERRIBLE TASTES OF GREAT DICTATORS
Director/Producer: CHARLIE SMITH
Description:
SHINE Ltd / SKY ONE
Profiles of Sadam Hussein, Kim Yong-il, Idi Amin, Mao, Pol Pot and Hitler
 
DISPATCHES: SUPERMARKET SECRETS
Director/Producer: MIKE BRENAN
Description:
TWENTY TWENTY / CHANNEL FOUR
The influence the major supermarkets have on what our farmers grow and ultimately our diets.
 
WHEN LOUIS MET THE HAMILTONS
Director/Producer: WILL YAP
Description:
BBC TV 60mins
Nomination – BAFTA 2002 Category: Best Documentary
 
TALES FROM ROME
Director/Producer: PAUL TUCKER
Description:
IWC GLASGOW / BBC TV 60mins.
Kirsty Wark and Simon Davis visit Rome
 
MY CHILDHOOD - ANTHONY WORRAL THOMPSON

MY CHILDHOOD – KIM MARSH

Director/Producer: KATHRYN ROSS
Description:
ENDOMOL SCOTLAND / BBC
 
EXTRAORDINARY ANIMALS - GENIUS PARROT
Director/Producer: WILLIAM HICKLIN
Description:
BLINK / CHANNEL FIVE
A bird that can perform tasks previously thought to be exclusive to humans, great apes and monkeys.
 
HOW WE BUILT BRITAIN - GEORGIAN PERIOD
Director/Producer: NIGEL WALK
Description:
BBC
David Dimbleby presents a series of films on how the British landscape has been shaped and changed over the centuries.
Nomination - RTS 2007 - Best Arts Documentary
 
CUTTING EDGE - MOVING ON UP
Director/Producer: RIETA OORD
Description:
With estate agents making an unprecedented fortune - what about the clients who are caught up in the 'nighmare'?
 
CUTTING EDGE - THE DEAD BODY SQUAD
Director/Producer: ZAC BEATTIE
Description:
Following a team of specialist cleaners as they clean up after suicides 'unreported deaths' and scenes of crime.
 
ONE LIFE - OLD DRIVERS
Director/Producer: NICK BETTS
Description:
A gentle look at some of the more mature motorists on Londons roads.
 
EVERYMAN - SINGLE GIRLS
Director/Producer: DANIELLA VOLKER
Description:
Unmarried women argue that spinsterhood means freedom and financial independence; not being miserably left on the shelf.
 
FAKING IT – BALLROOM DANCER
Director/Producer: JONATHAN SMITH
Description:
RDF / CHANNEL FOUR Winner – BAFTA 2003 - Category: Best Features Programmes
Winner – Montreux Television Festival 2003 - Category: Rose D’Or
Winner – Indie Television Awards 2003 - Category: Best Factual Programmes
 
FAKING IT – STUDIO DIRECTOR
Director/Producer: PADDY WIVELL
Description:
RDF / CHANNEL FOUR 60mins
 
FAKING IT USA - COWBOY
Director/Producer: ROZ PONDER
Description:
RDF / CHANNEL FOUR
 
FAKING IT USA - SOMMELIER
Director/Producer: EMILY FIELD
Description:
RDF / CHANNEL FOUR
 
IDEAS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD - ISLAM
Director/Producer: JANE CAMERON
Description:
Presented by former president of Pakistan; Benazir Bhuto.
 
IDEAS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD - TERRORISM
Director/Producer: JANE CAMERON
Description:
Presented by the former Archbishop of Canterbury's Special Envoy; Terry Waite.
 
ARTWORKS: EDWYNN COLLINS
Director/Producer: PAUL TUCKER
Description:
BBC
Exclusive access to the singer/songwriter on the road to recovery from a stroke. Following him through therapy and back to the recording studio as he completes the solo album 'Home Again'
 
ART ROCKS - GEORGE CLINTON
Director/Producer: DAVID HART / JOE HART
Description:
Profile of the funk legend.
 
ANGELA'S DYING WISH
Director/Producer: NICK WATTS
Description:
Following the last months of a cancer sufferer.
Winner - RTS South Awards 2006. Best Factual Film
 
BODY DOUBLES
Director/Producer: ROWAN DEACON
Description:
PROSPECT PICTURES / BBC
 
DANGERMEN - WIND TURBINE CONSTRUCTION
Director/Producer: JESS ORR
Description:
FIREFLY / CHANNEL FIVE
Following a gang of construction workers, as they build one of the largest wind farms, in a remote part of Montana.
 
THE REAL CHERIE BLAIR
Director/Producer: HILARY ROSEN
Description:
LION TV / BBC
Fiona Bruce gets a behind the scenes look at the life of the Prime Ministers' wife.
 
RESTORATION VILLAGE - Additional Photography
Director/Producer: PAUL TUCKER
Description:
ENDEMOL / BBC
Presented by Griff Rhys-Jones.
 
DEMOLITION - Additional Photography
Director/Producer: BARNABY PEEL
Description:
OXFORD TV
Presented by Janet Street-Porter.
 
BATTLE FOR THE FALKLANDS - Additional Photography
Director/Producer: MIKE BECKHAM
Description:
Twentieth anniversary look at the battle in the south Atlantic.
 
ELGIN MARBLES - Additional Photography
Director/Producer: MIKE BECKHAM
Description:
CIRCUS PRODUCTIONS
 
SHIPMATES - Additional Photography
Director/Producer: CHRIS TERRILL
Description:
On board the Royal Navy's largest warship: HMS Ocean as the crew take part in the Trafalgar celebrations.
 
TOP GEAR
Director/Producer: Series 2006/07
Description:
 
WESTINN HOTELS - TV COMMERCIAL
Director/Producer: MARTIN LAING
Description:
TIME WARNER
 
NESSPRESSO - TV COMMERCIAL
Director/Producer: MARTIN LAING
Description:
TIME WARNER
 
AUDEMARS-PIQUET WATCHES - TV COMMERCIAL
Director/Producer: MARTIN LAING
Description:
TIME WARNER
 
RANGE ROVER - TV & CINEMA COMMERCIAL
Director/Producer: GERARD DE THAME
Description:
GDT FILMS.

2nd Unit DoP/Camera Operator on Base-Jumping sequences in Majlis Al Jinn cave in Oman.

Main Unit DoP: Michael Coulter
 
ALPHA PROJECT - CINEMA COMMERCIAL
Director/Producer: DAHLAN LASSALLE
Description:
THE MOB FILM COMPANY

2nd Unit DOP / Rock Climbing Sequences on Cenotaph Corner, Llanberis.

Main Unit DoP: August Jackobsen
 
YOUNGS SEAFOOD - TV COMMERCIAL
Director/Producer: GUS FILGATE.
Description:
2am FILMS

(Camera Operator).

DoP :Rob Peyton
 
CONFETTI - FEATURE FILM
Director/Producer: DEBBIE ISETT
Description:
BBC FILMS Feature

(Camera Operator)

DoP : Devald Akema


 
THE WILDEST DREAM - FEATURE FILM
Director/Producer: TOM POLLOCK
Description:
ALTITUDE FILMS

2nd Unit DoP/Operator on reconstruction climbing sequences.
The epic tale of Mallory and Irvine's ill-fated attempt on Everest in 1924.
Main Unit DoP: Chris Openshaw
 
I am an experienced DoP/Camera Operator working on a broad range of film and television productions. Shooting in over fifty countries covering Europe, Africa, Central and South-East Asia, North and South America, the Middle East and the South Pacific. I enjoy filming a broad range of subjects whether it be observational hand-held work or more controlled set-ups requiring carefully crafted lighting. I am also completely comfortable working in the more ‘extreme’ and sometimes hostile environments.




Before becoming a Lighting Cameraman, I worked my way up through the ‘grades’ as a clapper-loader then focus-puller on over one hundred 16mm/35mm film projects including commercials, film documentaries, TV dramas, feature films, pop promos and corporates.



Expert ALPINE SKIER. [Raced at national level as a teenager] Also proficient X-COUNTRY SKIER.

Experienced DIVER, WHITE-WATER CANOEIST and MOUNTAINEER (Alpine Club Member).

Experienced AERIALS Cameraman both FIXED WING & HELICOPTER work.

Risk Assessment in Hostile Environments Certificate [Category One]

Advanced Medicine for Remote Foreign Travel Certificate.

POLAR & HIGH ALTITUDE
Medic Course, Alta Norway.

SWIFT WATER RECUE Technician Certificate. [SRT Level One]

Industrial ROPE ACCESS / TECHNICAL CLIMBING Certificate [IRATA Level One]

Valid USA ‘I’ Work Visa.


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