Beavers play a vital role in creating and maintaining healthy watersheds through their unique ability to engineer landscapes. By building dams across streams and rivers, beavers create ponds and wetlands that slow down water...
The future of ecosystems, species, and communities depends on the ability to communicate effectively. So how can conservation messages capture and hold the audience's attention in a world overflowing with information? Here are some...
Film festivals are vital to the independent film world. They provide filmmakers with opportunities for exposure, networking, and potentially securing distribution for their work. And, hey, who doesn't like to collect film festival Laurel...
I've been solely dedicated to full-time conservation filmmaking for just over a decade, and that got me thinking late last year: Am I still 'WorkCabin Creative'? Does that name best represent what I do...
Conservation issues, whether it’s habitat loss, species extinction, or climate change, are complex and cannot be reduced to short, fleeting clips. Documentary filmmaking allows me to dive deeper, exploring not just the challenges but the...
There's so much talk these days about the emergence of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its impact on various niches. So let me put on my hip waders and jump right into the weeds: Will...
Take a look at many conservation organizations' websites, social media feeds, and YouTube pages and you'll see a common missing ingredient: Winter themed storytelling content. When conservation organizations showcase their work with videos, they often...
The latest conservation filming work on a chilly November morning saw me in a hip waders in a coldwater stream to film and capture the stories of benthic monitoring. Filming in this environment is really...
This isn't something that many conservation organizations want to hear: social media timelines and newsfeeds are places where content goes to die a quick death. In 2025, every conservation organization in Canada, big and small,...
Stories left behind in the field aren't helping to grow and engage your supporters, donors, or funders. Sure, as a conservation filmmaker, I'm biased. But the above statement is a fact. I like to use birds...
