Robert Brown
Robert Brown is recognised as one of the worlds outstanding Natural History cameramen; and was one of the founders of the highly acclaimed Television New Zealand Natural History Unit.
After
buying his first movie camera at the age of 10, he started filming. By
the age of 16 he had won numerous awards both in New Zealand and internationally.
In the 70s Robert joined Television New Zealand and
along with a journalist and sound recordist, gained hard won approval
from the New Zealand Wildlife Service to film a documentary about the
endangered Takahe (a flightless New Zealand Rail). The resounding success
of the film gave impetus to the idea, to create a film unit specialising
in natural history. In 1977, the TVNZ Natural History Unit was born with
Robert as cameraman. It was at this time his work was viewed by the head
of the BBC Natural History Unit and he was offered a bursary to train
with the unit in Bristol, United Kingdom. Robert was also awarded a Queen
Elizabeth 
the
Second Arts Council re-enforcing his potential.
As a result, Robert was invited to return to the BBC Natural History Unit each northern summer as he was now considered one of the worlds finest behavioural camera specialists.
In the 1980s his camera skills were acknowledged in
New Zealand when he won a Feltex Television Award for craft excellence.
At that stage Robert set up Wildfilm New Zealand, free-lance filming,
still working for Natural History New Zealand, National Geographic, Discovery
and extensively for the BBC, in particular Sir David Attenborough's "The
Trials of life", "The Living Planet" and "The Life
of Birds".
Robert continues his specialist work in all parts of the world and has
filmed extensively in the Arctic, Antarctic, Sub Antarctic, India, South
America, United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, throughout the Pacific
region including Australia and New Zealand.
Apart from his filming, Robert is also tutoring at the University of Otago masters course in natural history film making. course in natural history filmaking.