In 2010, an unassuming Dutchman attended one of our Wildeye Wildlife Filmmaking courses which my ex-Survival Anglia Producer wife and I conducted from out of our once roomy farmhouse. The roomy farmhouse is still roomy. It’s just not ours anymore. Cees van Kempen (Cees is pronounced ‘Case’) made a big effort to stay in touch with us after the course, leaving us with a few dangling ‘maybes’ on projects he was trying to get off the ground. Watching his 2007 self-produced Kingfisher film, it was very clear that Cees had a great artistic eye. What he needed was a gantry of support only a filmmaking company could really give him. What kept him close with us was his desire to make the films he wanted to make in the way he wanted to make them.

After many years and some wonderful projects, our relationship with him culminated in WOLF, an extraordinary film about the return of the wolf to the Netherlands. Have a look at the opening of the film...