Nat Geo kangaroo doco wins in China
Wildbear Entertainment doco wins the Grand Prize International Gold Panda award in China.
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Big Red: The Kangaroo King, a feature documentary which screened on Nat Geo Wild has seen its producers, Wildbear Entertainment, awarded in China.
The doco took out the Grand Prize International Gold Panda award at the Sichuan TV festival in Chengdu, China, on Friday.
Bettina Dalton, the film’s director/producer said, “It is a great honour for The Kangaroo King to be recognised. The red kangaroo is an iconic Australian species that is superbly adapted to the Australian landscape. Reds are highly adaptable and versatile, and face great challenges with the changing face of arid Australia, and their life story is remarkable and little seen by suburban Australians, let alone the rest of the world.”
WildBear has produced several titles for the Chinese and Asian markets including The Story of Australia for CCTV9, A Tale of Two Cities for Beijing TV, and Forever Young for CCTV2 which reached an audience of 275 million. It recently won an ACT Exporter of the Year Award and is currently producing The War That Changed The World for CCTV10.
WildBear CEO Michael Tear noted; “This is a great honour and privilege for our work to be recognised. We value our relationship with China and are pleased that the judges recognise The Kangaroo King with such a prestigious award.”