Marshall Corwin

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Marshall Corwin is a British television producer. He is Creative Director of Fresh Start Media [1] and the first Head of Content for the new global environmental streaming platform Ecoflix. [2] He has written and produced two flagship documentaries for the Channel: Free Billy about the campaign to free a captive elephant held for more than 30 years in LA Zoo, and Sanctuary: Elephant Nature Park highlighting the remarkable work of founder Lek Chailert, dubbed the 'elephant whisperer'.

Marshall has been the showrunner on Discovery's top global hit Gold Rush, [3] and he also developed and produced the BAFTA-winning CITV series Bear Grylls Survival School. [4]

Undercover documentaries he filmed and produced include two high-profile films for BBC Panorama: In the Shadow of the Stadiums documented widespread under-ago prostitution in the run up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, [5] and Educating North Korea gained unprecedented access to the secretive State. [6]

Marshall was Series Producer of all eight seasons of the ground-breaking BBC Children's Serious TV series [7] which he created: Serious Jungle (2002), Serious Desert (2003), Serious Arctic (2004), Serious Amazon (2005), Serious Andes (2006), Serious Ocean (2008), Serious Explorers: Livingstone (2010), and Serious Explorers: Raleigh (2011). The extreme adventure series has won fifteen major awards, including four BAFTAs and three Royal Television Society awards, and is seen in a hundred and fifty countries.

He is the author of a book to accompany the series: Extreme Survival: An Adventurer's Guide to the World's Most Dangerous Places (foreword by Bruce Parry). [8] In addition he has written several other children's factual books, and he co-authored Undercover, [9] documenting unprecedented secret filming in sub-standard Romanian and Turkish orphanages with the involvement of the Duchess of York and her daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.

He was Series Producer of the children's news programme Newsround , with responsibility for its short documentaries, Newsound Extra. He won an International Emmy for a Newsround Extra documentary War Child filmed in Mostar at the end of the Bosnian War. [10] [ circular reference ] He has also been a Senior Producer in BBC factual programmes, making shows such as Tomorrow's World, Megalab and the 1999 Total Eclipse.

Born in Leeds, Marshall read maths at Oxford University before becoming a Secondary maths teacher. He has also been a Radio 4 announcer and presenter. He lives in London with his partner and two children.

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References

  1. "Ecoflix".
  2. "Fresh Start Media".
  3. "GOLD rUSH". IMDb .
  4. "Bear Grylls Survival School". IMDb .
  5. "Brazil: In The Shadow of the Stadiums". IMDb .
  6. "Educating North Korea".
  7. "Marshall Corwin". The Royal Society.
  8. Corwin, Marshall (May 2010). Extreme Survival by Marshall Corwin. Skyhorse. ISBN   978-1616080006.
  9. Undercover by Chris Rogers and Marshall Corwin. ASIN   1850788588.
  10. "International Emmy".