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