MFP WELCOMES OUR FIRST SCHOLARSHIP STUDENT
NOVEMBER 2023
🦎📚 Meet Herizo Randrianandrasana, MFP’s first Scholarship Student! We are very excited to welcome him to the team and for him to train with us over the next two months.
📢 🎥The scholarship’s focus is on training Malagasy nationals in wildlife and environmental filmmaking and photography. Its ultimate goal is to create awareness around conservation and help to empower a new generation of impactful Malagasy storytellers. 🌿🦎
🙏🙏🙏 Thanks to Wildscreen’s support, Herizo will receive a salary and the Aina Madagascar Film Fellowship will cover his travel and living expenses.
Herizo Randrianandrasana, shares his experience as a camera and storytelling trainee at Madagascar Film & Photography, highlighting the importance of Madagascar’s national parks and learning the craft of camera and filmmaking. After being supported through the Wildscreen Storytelling Internship Scheme in partnership with the Aina Madagascar Film Fellowship as MFP’s first Scholarship Student, he kept a diary throughout his 2-month internship, chronicling his journey with the company. You can read all about his adventures HERE!
Fantastic to see so much of Goff's footage feature in this fascinating production for #OurPlanetEarth 🌍, a @bbcearth BBC Studios Natural History Unit and Wellcome co-production for the BBC. This short film looks into how a small insect can help in the fight against famine.
MFP recently worked with WeAct to document the cookstove project they support in Madagascar. WeAct provides fuel efficient cookstoves to households that reduce the amount of firewood needed to cook. This in turn decreases deforestation and local emissions - and improves health, income and employment opportunities for local communities. Goff traveled with the WeAct crew to Fianarantsoa to photograph in the factories that make the cookstoves and the homes of local community members that are using the stoves.
We are very proud that our good friend Mamy Razafitsalama of Planet Madagascar has won a Whitley Fund for Nature award! The award recognises Mamy’s work to protect forests and help biodiversity and people in communities in NW Madagascar. We have worked with Mamy on multiple film projects over the years and have seen first hand the vital work that he and the team are doing.
We had a fantastic time working with the RISE Our World Heritage crew
and Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy. Vatosoa and Nicolas the presenter and founder of Rise took to the air for a unique perspective on the incredible biodiversity of Madagascar as well as some of the community based solutions that are helping to protect the environment.
Fantastic news! Eyes of the Orangutan is a finalist at nature film's equivalent to the Oscars: Jackson Wild.
Chris, MFP's co-founder was honoured to be selected as one of the Nomination Jury of experts in the Impact Category at the Wildscreen Panda Awards! "It was very inspiring to see so many incredible films striving to make a difference. Congratulations to the three outstanding nominees . It will be a very difficult task for the judges to pick a final winner." - Chris Scarffe
We are very excited to announce that the documentary Eyes Of The Orangutan that Madagascar Film & Photography’s co-founder Chris Scarffe worked on as a director, producer and camera operator has won another award. This time at the International Nature & Environmental Protection Festival 2022.
We are proud to announce that Eyes Of The Orangutan a Terra Mater Factual Studios / Chris Scarffe Film & Photography production has won two Silver Awards at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards. Chris Madagascar Film & Photography's co-founder worked on the production as a director, producer and camera operator.
Silver Award Winner: Environmental & Ecology Documentary
Silver Award Winner: Travel & Tourism Documentary
You could #WIN a beautiful canvas print of one of our best wildlife photographs by entering our competition. The contest is a way to celebrate the upcoming World Wildlife Day and to share with you some of our best images of the incredible and unique wildlife of Madagascar.