Mike Slee is a British writer, director and producer with over 50 TV, Giant Screen films and cinema projects to his credit. After graduating in Visual Communications (B.A.1st Hons) Mike trained (made tea!) on David Attenborough’s Life on Earth and Living Planet at the BBC. After a spell directing music videos, Mike partnered with the UK indie Principal Media as Creative Director and, for over 20 years, Mike produced and directed more than 50 hours of prime-time factual programming filmed in 30 countries on every continent. Mike co-wrote and directed the Giant Screen IMAX® ghost story Legend of Loch Lomond, Discovery’s Giant Screen/IMAX® feature Wildfire Feel the Heat and the multi-award winning Giant Screen IMAX® release set in Borneo.
Mike was Series Director on Discovery’s Atlas 4D, as well as writing, producing and directing the National Geographic “Explorer” Shackleton’s Whisky, and for Off the Fence/Eco-Planet the feature: Colombia: Wild Magic. Mike directed CGI science adventures Journey to the Centre of the Planet and Journey to the Bottom of the Sea for BBC1, and for National Geographic: Drain the Ocean WWII, as well as Robots 3D in IMAX®. For Smithsonian/eOne he co-devised and directed Mummies Alive!, for History Channel, the counter-factual feature: The Great Martian War, and for BBC Earth the giant screen feature doc Wild Africa 3D. Mike also co-wrote, produced and directed SK Film’s acclaimed Flight of the Butterflies 3D, winning a clean sweep at the 2013 Giant Screen Cinema Awards.
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