Mick Kaczorowski

Mick Kaczorowski became a Senior Executive Producer at Animal Planet in August, 2005. As Senior Executive Producer Kaczorowski over sees a variety of programs and series and programs including Animal Planet's multi award winning and Emmy prime time series Meerkat Manor which has become a pop and cultural phenomenon in the US and around the world. Kaczorowski was the Executive Producer of the Feature film version of the film, which was originally shot simultaneously while making the series in the Kalahari, South Africa. Meerkat Manor: The Story begins released by the Weinstein Co., premiered at the Tribeca film festival in 2008 and received its US broadcast premiere on Animal Planet in May of 2008. In addition to directing Stochard Channing's narration for season 4 of Meerkat Manor, Kaczorowski has worked with Sean Astin on three previous season's of Meerkat Manor. In addition Kaczorowski is working on a series, Extrodinary Animals directing William Shatner, Stray to Hay with Matt Sharp productions, A heightened CGI animation based series with Base Productions "Perfect Beast". Kaczorowski also executive produces all the Natural World co-productions with the BBC, the makers of Planet Earth.

Kaczorowski supervises and manages all phases of production and production and provides editorial direction for over 100 different programs a year. Some of these include "into the Lions Den, with Dave Salmoni", Rogue Nature predator vs Prey, The Making of Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins and the Science of Meerkat Manor. He has also been nominated for an Emmy for the original Animal Planet series "Buggin with Ruund which premiered on Animal Planet in 2005.

He joined Amimal Planet in July 2004 and was named Editoral Director for Animal Planet. Mick Kaczorowski was named executive producer and managing editor for the Discovery Channel in 2001. In 2002, he began overseeing production in the areas of daytime and fringe programming, serving as executive producer of It's Christopher Lowell and helped create the 2003 daytime series Rally Round the House and Double Agents. Over the past few years, Kaczorowski has supervised Land of the Mammoth, and the Emmy Award winning shows Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, (narrated by Stochard Channing). He provided editorial guidance to 40 hours of additional programming including Body Detective, Planet Storm, Terror on the Tracks, Beyond Human Limits and the series Storm Warning and Into the Death Zone.

In Kaczorowski's 23-year career in television and film, he has produced, edited and written films for the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Explorer, PBS and the U.S. Department of Energy. One of his previous projects with Discovery Channel Pictures was the 40-minute IMAX film, Wildfire: Feel The Heat. Kaczorowski also wrote, produced and directed a motion-simulator ride for Discovery's Themed Entertainment division, that translated the aerial fire-fighting adventure into a state-of-the-art theatrical experience. Kaczorowski and the team of filmmakers trained to become certified firefighters to actually film on the front lines of forest fires in the US and Australia.

Kaczorowski joined the Discovery Channel in 1994 as senior producer of Discovery Productions, responsible for the editorial content and daily production and post production of Discovery's quarterly specials and natural-history television productions. Projects have included: Discovery Channel's first Emmy Award-winning special Carrier: Fortress at Sea, Choppers on Patrol, Nile: River of Gods, Ultimate Athlete, Flight Over the Equator, Forbidden City: The Great Within, Galapagos: The World That Darwin Never Saw, and Discovery Pictures' first theatrical release, The Leopard Son, narrated by Sir John Gielgud.

In 1985, Kaczorowski helped launch National Geographic Explorer. For the next eight years, he ran his own media production company, CRASHZOOM, for which he produced and edited films for the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Explorer and PBS. He has been nominated for two Emmy awards for Best Achievement in Editing. Kaczorowski began his career working with film director Robert Altman in New York City on the films, Streamers, OC and Stiggs, & Secret Honor.

Mick Kaczorowski is and experienced world traveler and adventurer. He is a photographer, and artist and even has attended Elephant Mahaut school in Chang Mai Thialand. Kaczorowski earned a Bachelor' of Arts degree in film and psychology from the University of Michigan.