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Adrian Pennink has produced and directed more than 40 television documentaries and documentary series for British broadcasters and as co-productions with PBS, Discovery and NHK. His films have received prizes from among others, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Best Documentary Emmy for The Ascent of Money), the NCIFF Best Documentary Award (for the feature documentary Kissinger - distributed through Netflix US), the Royal Television Society, the Houston International Film Festival and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. He has directed six films for the BBC's flagship science series Horizon including two in the year it won a Bafta for Best Factual Series. He has been nominated twice for Grierson and Emmy Awards.
He has also been a UN elections observer in Mozambique.
Dewald Aukema co-founded, after completing filmschool, Aukema Gibson Films, a South African production company which produced more than 30 documentaries and dramas. He was also a co-founder of Free Filmmakers, an organisation dedicated to producing anti-apartheid films and providing previously disadvantaged people with an education in film production.
As a cinematographer he has photographed more than 300 documentaries, 6 TV drama series, many commercials and 18 theatrically released feature films/video art projects. Two documentary films he photographed were nominated for Oscars - Mandela and A Cry of Reason, three for Baftas and three for Emmys with two taking the top honor - The Ascent of Money and The Life and Times of Luchino Visconti which also won the Bafta. He has received many other awards for his cinematography on feature films.
