STEVE NICHOLLS is an award-winning television documentary producer and director. With a B.Sc. in Zoology and a Ph.D in Entomology from the University of Bristol, he worked in academic research before joining the BBC in 1984. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London.
While with the BBC's Natural History Unit, he produced programs in the series Land of the Eagle (BBC2 and WNET), Lifesense (BBC1 and A&E) and programs for the strand 'The Natural World' including For Queen and Colony, Ytene The Ancient Forest and Impossible Journeys; he also produced They Came From the Sea, Shadow of the Hare and White Birds of Winter for BBC1's 'Wildlife on One' strand.
He was the series producer of the hugely successful series Alien Empire for the BBC and WNET. He then left the BBC to set up Burning Gold Productions in 1995.
Subsequently, he worked with Partridge Films as series producer of Forces of the Wild for WNET and Canal+ and also produced The Company of Ravens and Earthtrek with Partridge for WNET, and the Emmy nominated Swarms for Discovery. He was the Second Unit director for the feature film Angels and Insects and was the director of Limits of Perception for AV Dokumenta.
As co-founder of Burning Gold Productions Ltd (and company director), he produced Claws, Nightstalker, Animal Devil and First Flight and he was the series director on the international CGI series The Future is Wild. He also directed Poisoned with AV Dokumenta and Appalachia The Endless Forest for Burning Gold. He directed Reindeer Girls, about Sami reindeer-herders in Lapland for the BBC's Natural World strand and Time Limits, a visualisation of different time scales with AV Dokumenta for ORF, Austria.
He produced Drain the Ocean and Light the Ocean for National Geographic US, O2 for ORF Austria, and was Executive Producer on Chimpcam for the BBC 'The Natural World'
More recently he has produced and directed a 2 part series Plants Behaving Badly, for Terra Mater along with Unnatural Selection, a film looking at how humanity has affected the course of evolution. He was also series producer on Britain's Treasure Islands, following presenter Stewart McPherson as he visits all of the UK Overseas Territories
He is an award winning wildlife stills photographer.
In addition, he wrote Paradise Land, an environmental history of North America, published by University of Chicago Press in USA, Canada and UK in 2009.
He is also vice-chair of the Avon Wildlife Trust, one of a national network of 47 regional conservation trusts.
He is currently working on a film on the history of North American buffalo for Smithsonian Networks and writing and photographing a book on British wildflowers
While with the BBC's Natural History Unit, he produced programs in the series Land of the Eagle (BBC2 and WNET), Lifesense (BBC1 and A&E) and programs for the strand 'The Natural World' including For Queen and Colony, Ytene The Ancient Forest and Impossible Journeys; he also produced They Came From the Sea, Shadow of the Hare and White Birds of Winter for BBC1's 'Wildlife on One' strand.
He was the series producer of the hugely successful series Alien Empire for the BBC and WNET. He then left the BBC to set up Burning Gold Productions in 1995.
Subsequently, he worked with Partridge Films as series producer of Forces of the Wild for WNET and Canal+ and also produced The Company of Ravens and Earthtrek with Partridge for WNET, and the Emmy nominated Swarms for Discovery. He was the Second Unit director for the feature film Angels and Insects and was the director of Limits of Perception for AV Dokumenta.
As co-founder of Burning Gold Productions Ltd (and company director), he produced Claws, Nightstalker, Animal Devil and First Flight and he was the series director on the international CGI series The Future is Wild. He also directed Poisoned with AV Dokumenta and Appalachia The Endless Forest for Burning Gold. He directed Reindeer Girls, about Sami reindeer-herders in Lapland for the BBC's Natural World strand and Time Limits, a visualisation of different time scales with AV Dokumenta for ORF, Austria.
He produced Drain the Ocean and Light the Ocean for National Geographic US, O2 for ORF Austria, and was Executive Producer on Chimpcam for the BBC 'The Natural World'
More recently he has produced and directed a 2 part series Plants Behaving Badly, for Terra Mater along with Unnatural Selection, a film looking at how humanity has affected the course of evolution. He was also series producer on Britain's Treasure Islands, following presenter Stewart McPherson as he visits all of the UK Overseas Territories
He is an award winning wildlife stills photographer.
In addition, he wrote Paradise Land, an environmental history of North America, published by University of Chicago Press in USA, Canada and UK in 2009.
He is also vice-chair of the Avon Wildlife Trust, one of a national network of 47 regional conservation trusts.
He is currently working on a film on the history of North American buffalo for Smithsonian Networks and writing and photographing a book on British wildflowers