David Hannan Media Legacy
A Living Legacy
David Hannan, founder of the Ocean Ark Alliance, is an acclaimed multi-Emmy award-winning underwater film-maker, explorer, artist, educator and conservationist. David’s startlingly beautiful cinematography of the marine world is featured in many of the world’s most successful natural history documentaries, feature films and digital media exhibitions, including David’s own productions Coral Sea Dreaming, Antarctica Dreaming, Undersea Edens, Rob Stewart’s Sharkwater and Revolution, Yann Bertrand’s Planet Ocean, National Geographic’s Great Migrations and Secret Life of Predators, BBC’s Blue Planet, Lynette Wallsworth’s Coral Re-Kindling Venus, the Capacitor Group’s Okeanos and Twinstar Film’s 3D feature film for Disney Aldabra.
Over thousands of dives, David has amassed one of the world’s largest and most coveted tropical marine footage libraries, as well as an extensive archive of Antarctic subjects on HD.
The Ocean Ark Alliance has established the David Hannan Media Legacy initiative for ongoing archiving, indexing and hosting of David’s media collection and life’s work. Over the years, many marine-related campaigns have had support and input from Dave Hannan’s extensive digital media collection.
As a Founding Director of Ocean Ark Alliance, David’s vision is to develop and expand an ongoing legacy of accessible media materials, and in turn, merge it with the greater media collection now gathering under the umbrella of Ocean Ark Alliance. A prototype “Online Footage Resource” has been established here and sample footage clips can be seen here
Ocean Ark Alliance recognises that human beings cannot survive without healthy oceans, and that in a rapidly changing biosphere, saving the oceans is the same as saving ourselves.
Meanwhile, the imperative to explore and document still living reefs, especially throughout The Coral Triangle, continues to motivate many more determined dive hours filming tropical marine life in all its amazing diversity.
For more information on this initiative contact:
David Hannan – Managing Director, Global Educational Endowments
d.hannan@oceanarkalliance.org.au
Above: … Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, The Coral Triangle, Ningaloo, Temperate Southern Waters, Antarctica’s White Wilderness, Portraits, Behaviours, Patterns, The Unexpected .. filmed by Emmy Award winning David Hannan, Plankton Productions …
