Author: Brandon Navratil
Brandon Navratil – WLC Member Blog Series
Hello everyone! My name is Brandon Navratil and I am a wildlife filmmaker, naturalist, and guide based in the Yellowstone area. I have been pursuing my dreams of working in nature, capturing beautiful imagery, and making inspirational change since I ...
From Flint: Voices of a Poisoned City- a Film Review
From Flint is a 24-minute film about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Water crisis is typically a term we here related to undeveloped countries and arid regions of the world. But here in the U.S. a city is undergoing ...
The Islands and the Whales: A Film Review
The Faroe Islands sit between Scotland and Iceland in the North Atlantic. The Faroese people are decendents of Vikings. They are an autonomous country within Denmark, however, they are not Danish and speak the closest surviving example of the Viking ...
Preserving One Square Inch of Silence- A Film Review
Water is softly cascading through pebbles, mist rises in the early hours from the treetops, with moss and lichen of all types of green covering the forest. Serenity. What is one thing many of us overlook when connecting with nature? ...
Sea of Life- A Film Review and Call to Action!
Sea of Life- Written, Directed and Produced by Julia Barnes “The ocean produces most of the oxygen in the air we breathe. It’s home to 80% of all life on Earth. And it is in big trouble." - Julia Barnes ...
Sticky- Animation for Conservation, a Film Review
Sticky By animator Jilli Rose For nearly 80 years the Dryococelus australis, commonly known as the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect and tree lobster, was thought to be extinct. Lord Howe Island was the historic home range for the insect ...
Bright Spots- Connecting Youth and Conservation Science, a Review
A Review by Brandon Navratil Bright Spots is an effort from filmmaker Jilli Rose in answering the question of how to encourage kids to get involved with conservation science and the natural world. Populations around the planet with privileges such ...
The Ivory Game: A Film Review
A review by Brandon Navratil The Ivory Game is a full-length documentary produced by Red Bull’s Terra Mater Film Studios and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions, in association with Malaika Pictures and Appian Way. As a Netflix original ...
Gray Area: Wolves of the Southwest, a review
Written by Brandon Navratil In Executive Producer Alan Lacy’s first film, “Gray Area: Wolves of the Southwest” explores the plight of a species the world almost lost forever. Along with Director Dean Cannon and TLP Media, the 50-minute feature tells ...