Mike Slee

Mike Slee
Mike Slee

Biography

Michael John Slee BA (Hons) (born 23 August 1959, Windlesham, Surrey) is a British television documentary producer/director, film-maker and writer.

Slee studied Art & Design at Kingston University, and graduated with a first class honours degree from the London College of Printing in Photography, Film and TV. He first achieved industry recognition for directing James Burke, in the 1989 ACE Award-winning PBS documentary series After the Warming. This prescient series dealt with the issue of global warming, using virtual reality computer simulations.

Slee then directed a 20-part TLC series with Burke, called Connections 2. By 1997 he was at the forefront of large screen IMAX film making, co-devising and directing Wildfire - Feel the Heat for the Discovery Channel, and The Legend of Loch Lomond for the Strathclyde European Partnership. In 2003 he co-wrote and directed BUGS 3D!, a $9 million IMAX 3D natural history drama, narrated by Judi Dench. The film was a semi-finalist at the 2004 Oscars, and was awarded the GSTA Lifelong Learning Honor in the same year.

Slee directed the 2005 British television programme, The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend. In 2008 he directed the feature film Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins, which was narrated by Whoopi Goldberg. Based on the ubiquitous Animal Planet television series, the film was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival.

Filmography

• The Kid (1986)
• After the Warming (1989)
• Connections 2 (1989)
• Wildfire: Feel the Heat (1999)
• The Legend of Loch Lomond (2001)
• Bugs (2003)^[1]
• Megastructures (2004)
• The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend (2005)
• Perfect Disaster: Ice Storm (2006)
• Voyages of Discovery (2006)
• Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins (2008)
• Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein (2008)
• Engineering Connections:Taipai Tower/Millau Viaduct/Wembley Stadium/Guggenheim Bilbao (2008/9)

References

1. ^ Mitchell, Elvis (2003-07-25), Bugs!, nytimes.com, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/movies/film-in-review-bugs.html, retrieved 2009-12-28 

External links

• Mike Slee at the Internet Movie Database
• Mike Slee's website

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