Film/TV and Awards (Selection)
A RHINO'S LIFE
NDR, arte, ORF Universum, NHK, 2022
The shock of very first raindrops on a baby rhino's skin; horns, that may either be tender or inflict serious pain. Droughts, predators, mating acrobatics - a rhino's life is as full of surprises as it is rich with deep social bonds from the start. So is the close relationship between Malaika and her son Elias. For years, the two of them are inseparable. But Malaika is pregnant. When she f finally goes into labor, nothing is the same anymore.
By Rosie Koch und Roland Gockel
Camera: Roland Gockel
Winner Wildlife Award at Naturvision Film Festival
Winner "Bester Film Wildnis Natur" at Dt. Naturfilmpreis
Winner Best Wildlife at Green Film Festival San Francisco
Winner TELEVIZIA JOJ at IFF Ekotopfilm 2023
Winner Mangrove Leaf Award at SIFF 2023
Winner Wild Film at Mpumalanga Int Film Festival 23
Winner Special Mention MAFF Matsalu Nature FF 2023
Nominated at Greenscreen Int. Wildlife Film Festival
Nominated Festival International Namur 2023
Nominated at Lonely Wolf Int. Film Festival
Nominated at Festival Int. Meningoute 2023
Official Selection Wildlife Conservation Film Festival, NY
DORMOUSE DETECTIVES - A Science Mystery
BR, MDR, Arte 2022
Garden dormice are supposed to be at home all over Europe. But recently they have started to go missing. A disappearance so mysterious, that researchers and conservationists have hurried to form a special task force. Their investigation focuses on possible causes for the massive decline in the cute rodent’s numbers. Only if the Dormouse Detectives manage to solve this puzzling case in time, they may still be able to save the species.
By Rosie Koch und Roland Gockel
Camera: Roland Gockel
Winner Special Mention at Greenscreen 2023
Winner Best Mid Length Documentary INFF 2023
Nominated at Ökofilmtour 2024
Nominated at Naturvision Filmfestival 2023
Official Selection Mountainfilm Graz 2023
Official Selection Green Film Festival San Francisco 23
FOX AND THE CITY
A film by Roland Gockel and Rosie Koch
For NDR, rbb, and Arte
Cityfoxes and rural foxes in Germany live very separate lives. This documentary takes a close look at how they manage at all
and what challenges these animals face respectively.
Winner of the sh:z Audience Award at the GREEN SCREEN International Nature Film Festival in Eckernförde
Nominated at Darßer Naturfilmfestival
Official Selection at Wildlife Conservation Film Festival
CREEKWALKER - DER FLUSSLÄUFER VON KANADA (51’), HD
Arte, 360° GEO Reportage 2017
Stan Hutchings has been walking creeks for 40 years. No one knows the Great Bear Rainforest
as well as he does. His passion are salmon, the fish at the center of the costal ecosystem.
By Rosie Koch and Roland Gockel
Camera: Roland Gockel
Winner of the Audience Award at the Natural History Film Festival 2018
Nominated at Innsbruck Nature Film Festival 2018
Nominated at Vaasa International Film Festival Finland2018
Nominated at International Film Festival Ekofilm 2018
Official Selection at Greenscreen Wildlife Film Festival 2018
Official Selection at Naturvision 2018
Official Selection at Darßer Naturfilmfestival 2018
MAGICAL OMAN (2 x 51’), HD
ZDF/Arte 2017
A two-part series about the magic of the orient. Part one visits people and wildlife in mountains and deserts of Oman’s north. Part two follows the route of incense and leopards’ tracks to Salalah, a city that changes completely with the arrival of the monsoon.
By Rosie Koch and Roland Gockel
Camera: Roland Gockel
Winner of Best Travel and Tourism Film Feature at the NATOURALE 2018
Official Selection at Matsulu Film Festival 2018
Official Selection at Naturvision 2018
WHALE GUARDIANS (52’), HD
NDR and BR, 2016
Gil Island is a lonely island on the Canadian West Coast, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. Janie, a Canadian biologist and Hermann, former German sport student, live here, in the middle of nowhere, listening to whales, that live and forage between the islands.
By Rosie Koch and Roland Gockel
Camera: Roland Gockel
Nominated for the German Natural History Film Award 2016
Official Selection at Greenscreen Wildlife Filmfestival 2016
PENGUIN CITY – SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND (51’), HD
NDR, Doclights 2015
South Georgia Island is Antarctica’s nursery. Hundreds of thousands of king penguins and
elephant seals as well as more than three million fur seals and their young are crowding the beaches and the abandoned whaling stations and ship wrecks.
By Roland Gockel and Rosie Koch
Camera: Roland Gockel
Nominated for German Natural History Award 2016
Nominated for Best Film in Meningoute, France 2016
Nominated for Best Film in Gödöllö, Ungarn 2016
Official Selection at Greenscreen Wildlife Film Festival 2016
TASMANIA – SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (51’), HD
Arte, 360° GEO Reportage, 2014
Only a miracle can save the legendary Tasmanian Devil from extinction at this point. More than 90% of them have been killed by a infectious cancer. Biologists, immunologists and veterinarians work together to find a vaccine before it is too late.
By Rosie Koch and Roland Gockel
Camera: Roland Gockel
Official Selection at GREENSCREEN Festival, Eckernförde 2015
Official Selection at Darßer Naturfilmfestival, Darß, 2013
WILD BERLIN (43’, 52’ and 2x43’) HD
RBB, ARTE, NDR Naturfilm, DOKfilm, 2013
The metropolis of Berlin is an urban jungle, providing a habitat for thousands of raccoons, foxes, bats, squirrels, hedgehogs and beavers – Berlin is wild in more ways than one.
By Rosie Koch and Roland Gockel
Camera: Roland Gockel
Winner of Best Script at Festival Nature Namure 2014
Winner of the Film Critics Guild of Russia Award at the Baikal International Film Festival 2013
Nominated for Best Camera at Naturvision Filmfestival 2013
Nominated for Best Film at Festival "L'Oiseau et la Nature” in Abbeville 2014
Nominated for “Best Film” at Wildlife Vaasa Festival, Finnland 2014
Nominated at Ökofilmtour, Potsdam, 2014
In the festival at GREENSCREEN Wildlife Film Festival, Eckernförde 2013
In the festival at Darßer Naturfilmfestival, Darß, 2013
HOANIB – THE SECRETS OF DESERT ELEFANTS (52’) HD
WDR, Blue Planet Film, 2013
Hot sand wherever you turn - the Namib is one of the most hostile deserts on earth. Some animals have developed unique ways to adapt. The biggest of them are desert elephants!
By Thomas Behrend and Rosie Koch
Camera: Roland Gockel
THE DOLPHIN LADY (48’), HD
NDR Naturfilm, 2011
The rough West Coast of Ireland, romantic and full of magical beauty is home to very special creatures: solitary dolphins. Wild bottlenose dolphins who's curiosity leads them to interact with seals, dogs and with humans (!) along the rugged Irish coast.
By Roland Gockel and Rosie Koch
Camera: Roland Gockel
Official Selection at GREENSCREEN Festival, Eckernförde 2012
Official Selection at Darßer Naturfilmfestival, Darß, 2012
MYTHOS ANIMALS (6 x 43’), HD
MDR/ARTE 2006/2007
A series about the relationships between humans and animals. Is our perception of animals influenced by myths, legends and fairytales?
By Rosie Koch and Annette Scheurich
Camera: Klaus Scheurich
MADAGASKAR - Zwischen Magie und Wirklichkeit (43’), HD
WWF, KFW, Angap 2006
Madagascar is a country of marvels. Fantastic landscapes, bizarre flora and fauna, and people infused with a deep cultural and spiritual love for nature, which is shaped by animal legends, myths, taboos and ancestor worship.
Directed by Annette Scheurich and Rosie Koch
Camera: Klaus Scheurich