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Who is Earth-Touch?
Earth-Touch is a wildlife documentary company. Our passion is to put people back in touch with nature, and so encourage us all to take better care of our natural heritage.
Over the last two years, Earth-Touch has pioneered a rapid filming and production cycle using dedicated crews in the field equipped with high-definition (HD) cameras and satellites. This state-of-the-art technology enables wildlife to be filmed, packaged and broadcast to global audiences within 48 hours of it being shot. From these daily feeds Earth-Touch currently produces the following broadcast programmes:
Over the last two years
Earth-Touch has pioneered a rapid filming and production cycle using dedicated crews in the field, High Definition cameras and satellites. Thus enabling wildlife to be filmed, packaged and broadcast to global audiences within 48 hours of it being shot. From these daily feeds, Earth-Touch currently produces the following broadcast programming:
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Wild touch
Half-hour Wild Touch programmes for South Africa’s SABC2, five days a week, using content shot within the last 48 hours.
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Channel ten
A daily, five-minute filler for Channel 10 in Australia, seven days a week.
A half-hour highlights package for Australia’s Channel 10, which repeats more or less twice a day during the week.
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M-net HD
For the upmarket pay channel M-Net in South Africa, two weekly 57-minute shows on the station’s new, dedicated HD channel: an Earth-Touch weekly highlights package showcasing footage shot during that week, and a compilation of some of the best footage from Earth-Touch’s extensive archive. Both are broadcast during prime time, the first from 6pm to 7pm on Sunday night, and the second from 7.30pm to 8.30pm on Tuesday night.
In addition, Earth-Touch provides 100 minutes of filler material to M-Net every two to three weeks. Each filler is five minutes long, and is broadcast randomly on the HD channel.
In the New Media space, Earth-Touch 'narrowcasts' in a number of ways:
- All of the daily crew feeds are available on www.earth-touch.com, which currently hosts over 1000 individual clips, with roughly three new clips being added daily.
- The same clips are available for viewing and download on a number of new media distribution platforms, including VUZE and YouTube.
- Every week a highlights package is made available via RSS through Apples iTunes, Miro and the Earth-touch site. The HD version of this feed currently has around 6000 subscribers, who collectively have downloaded over 100 000 individual podcasts, primarily in the United States.
With five crews around the southern African region constantly in the field streaming High Definition footage back to the production facility in Durban, Earth-Touch has also built up an extensive HD archive of animal behaviour in Southern Africa, arguably one of the biggest of its kind in existence.
Feel free to contact us for more information:
7 Poland Street, London, W1F 8PU, United Kingdom
37 7th Street, Corner 4th Avenue, Linden, Johannesburg, 2195, South Africa
4 Sunbury Crescent, Sunbury Park, La Lucia Ridge, 4051, South Africa
PO Box 2454, Saxonwold, 2132
Tel: +27 (0)31 582 0800
Life on Earth is not a documentary
At any moment in time, a complex cycle of natural wonder is playing out somewhere on this planet: while a butterfly flits about in the Amazon, a lion roars in the African night, a great white shark moves silently through the Indian Ocean, a polar bear hunts in an icy landscape.
Earth-Touch strives to capture the best of this activity every day – quickly, simply, and in the highest quality possible, and to relay it to audiences worldwide, within 48 hours of it being filmed whenever possible. Our video clips are only lightly edited and we never script storylines. We strive to convey the truth and beauty of life on Earth, and to put people in touch with our natural heritage.
We are committed to respecting the environment and to scrupulously avoid harming or disturbing our subjects or their habitats.
Earth-Touch puts people in touch with the Earth, now.
Earth-Touch’s mission is to celebrate the beauty of nature and to reflect what happens in the natural world truthfully and instantaneously. We are committed to respecting the environment and to scrupulously avoid harming or disturbing our subjects or their habitats.