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Gavin Garrison (born March 14, 1987) is a director and reality television show producer who produced the long-running Discovery series "Whale Wars. [1] " Garrison, a graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts [2] [3] and UC Santa Barbara used his travels to become an author on adventure conservation. [4] His projects have taken him from his home in Los Angeles, CA to filming in China's remote Mongolian plains, the icy waters off the coast of Antarctica, [5] the Romanian highlands, and the jungles of Costa Rica.
Garrison got his start in Hollywood working as a production assistant on the set of the Fox television show "The OC". [6] " He then went on to work on other hit shows "Mad Men" and "Entourage" as a technical consultant. He has produced two seasons of the Emmy-nominated reality show "Whale Wars", [7] and he set up and runs the Hollywood-based commercial production company, Red Apple Production. [8] [9]
In 2015, he shot the first-ever recorded aerial footage of a Blue whale and her calf nursing near the coast of Antarctica. [10] The footage went on to spark a conversation about the role of drones [11] in modern conservation efforts [12] [13] and has become a topic in the world of unmanned aircraft. [14] A new term for the movement was coined in a November 2015 interview with Garrison as "Conservation 2.0. [15] ". Garrison now speaks on the topic worldwide. [16] He produced six episodes of "Whale Wars," which includes four major specials [6] and four documentary films. [6]
Gavin Garrison has written over a dozen articles on the use of unmanned aircraft for filmmaking [17] and conservation, [4] and has become a special contributor to drone publications like RotorDrone magazine. [18]