Phil Agland

Phil Agland's new feature documentary, 'Baka: In Search of the Future', is due to resume filming in Cameroon early 2023. His series in China, 'The Cradle of Nature', a three part series on biodiversity, is in production in China 'China: Between Clouds and Dreams', broadcast in 2016 was the third in his trilogy of documentary series on China spanning the past 25 years. Phil initially made his name through a series of critically acclaimed natural history documentaries for C4, 'Fragile Earth', before moving to 'people' with his double BAFTA winning 'Baka: People of the Rainforest' and subsequently to China with his two multi-award-winning series on China, Beyond the Clouds (1994) and Shanghai Vice (1999). Phil's documentaries have won many prestigious awards including 4 Baftas, 3 Emmys, 2 Peabodys, The Royal Television Society, Wildscreen and Grierson Awards. Phil has written the screenplay 'White Wolf', a film in development for cinema to be filmed on location in China. Phil directed the movie 'The Woodlanders' which won Best Director and Best Film at the 1997 Shanghai Film Festival. Phil has lectured to many audiences around the World including BAFTA, The Royal Society of the Arts, The World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, Harvard and Oxford Universities and both the Beijing and Shanghai Film Festivals. In 2014, Phil was awarded an MBE by the Queen for his 'Services to Conservation in Africa and China' and in 2018 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Hull for 'services to film'.