Huw began his career at Partridge Films, one of the leading independent natural history film companies of the 1990s. After three years with Partridge, he went on to work with Mike Birkhead Associates, where he made two BBC Natural World films in the US. In 1995, he joined the BBC Natural History Unit, working on long-running series such as Big Cat Diary and Wildlife on One, as well as some of the Unit’s most celebrated landmark productions including Land of the Tiger, Andes to Amazon and Sir David Attenborough’s The Life of Mammals.
In 2003, Huw became part of the Planet Earth team under Alastair Fothergill, producing three episodes for the hugely successful and multi-award-winning series. Following Planet Earth, he was appointed Series Producer of South Pacific, a six-part landmark series for BBC Two.
In 2009, Huw joined Silverback Films, where he served as Series Producer on Deadly Islands and North America, Discovery Channel’s first fully funded blue-chip natural history series. He was also Series Producer on the award-winning The Hunt for BBC One, which explored the complex relationship between predator and prey.
Huw later produced the Jungles episode of Our Planet, Netflix’s first natural history landmark series, before going on to produce and direct Dancing with the Birds, a feature documentary exploring the extraordinary courtship displays of birds-of-paradise and bowerbirds.
He then served as Series Producer on A Perfect Planet for BBC One, as well as Producer/Director of the opening Volcanoes episode, before returning as Series Producer on Our Planet II.
Most recently, Huw was Producer and Director of the Emmy Award-winning Secret Lives of Orangutans for Netflix, the world’s first feature-length documentary dedicated to wild orangutans, following a multi-generational family deep in the rainforest of Sumatra. He was also Series Producer on Secrets of the Bees, National Geographic’s 2-part documentary exploring the remarkable intelligence, communication and social complexity of bees, and the critical role they play in ecosystems around the world.
Huw continues to create ambitious wildlife films for global audiences, combining cinematic storytelling with cutting-edge natural history filmmaking.
