James Honeyborne

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James Honeyborne is the director of The Meerkats feature film and the producer and director of many award-winning BBC wildlife documentaries.

Honeyborne attended Ampleforth College and studied biology at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1992, working first for the commercial wing Wildvision and then on a number of live tv outside broadcasts from around the world.

He spent 5 years on attachment to John Downer Productions, co-directing the series Supernatural and Weird Nature (co-produced by Discovery Channel), before returning to the BBC to make Wildlife On One documentaries with David Attenborough and to work on the strand Natural World (co-produced by Animal Planet and National Geographic).

A keen scuba diver and photographer, he has also made a series of iconic documentaries with world champion freediver, Tanya Streeter.

In 2006 work began on The Meerkats (a BBC Films and The Weinstein Company co-production, in association with the BBC Natural History Unit), a documentary feature for theatrical release.

[edit] External link

• James Honeyborne at the Internet Movie Database
• Personal web page

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NAME	Honeyborne, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	Aug, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	London, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH