Mike Slee

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Michael John Slee BA Hons  born 23 August 1959 Windlesham Surrey is a British television documentary producerdirector filmmaker and writer Slee studied Art amp 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 Awardwinning 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 20part TLC series with Burke called Connections 2 By 1997 he was at the forefront of large screen IMAX film making codevising and directing Wildfire Feel the Heat for the Discovery Channel and The Legend of Loch Lomond for the Strathclyde European Partnership In 2003 he cowrote and directed BUGS 3D a 9 million IMAX 3D natural history drama narrated by Judi Dench The film was a semifinalist 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Slee licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia