Palaeo Pictures
Taking the audience to the research
Bringing the stories of the past to the audience of the future
Palaeo Pictures is a new deal in documentary making. Our documentaries are made by the palaeontologists doing the research. We fund the research and make the documentaries. We can take the audience into the field, get them in the dirt of the excavations and following all aspects of the research that brings ancient worlds back to life.
Read our first blog which details the journey that Palaeo Pictures will be presenting to the world. And our second blog explains how we fund the research while making the documentaries.
Our Team
Between them, Palaeo Pictures founders Paul and Dan have a combined 26+ years of experience in video and media production with the ABC.
Paul spent 14 Years as a presenter and producer, mostly on the Catalyst program and is a former Director of the Royal Institution of Australia and is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in Palaeontology at Flinders University.
Dan worked with the International Division for 12 years as a multi-platform producer.
James is an expert illustrator of extinct creatures and all things natural history.
Associate Professor
‘Palaeo Paul’ Willis
Presenter and Producer
I’m a palaeontologist by training specialising in crocodiles but also with research interests in dinosaurs, marine reptiles and lots of other areas of palaeontology.
While at the ABC I was trained for single-person reporting including camera and sound operation as well as video editing.
Dan Taylor
Creative Director
I have over 20 years experience working for organisations such as the ABC, Australia Network, RiAus and The Investigator Science Centre. I posses a wide range of skills including producing, photography, camera operation, audio production, music composition and editing through to user experience, interactive and graphic design, web development and marketing.
James McKinnon
Illustrator
I have worked as an illustrator, mainly of prehistoric and contemporary
fauna for over twenty-five years. I have been commissioned to illustrate
books for many diverse publishing houses, including National Geographic,
the publishing arm of The Smithsonian Institution, Australian Geographic
and Newton science magazine under the guidance of some of the world’s
most esteemed scientists, including Mike Archer, Michael Brett-Surman
and Paul Willis, who acted as a consultant for my illustrations of
Dinosaurs while under commission for Weldon Owen Publishing.