Delta Willis

This is my history (and most of it is history) but I am hoping some of it might repeat itself.

1972-78: Director of Programs & Press,  Survival Anglia Ltd.  New York 

Established US office for British television producer. Promotion for award-winning Survival TV series. All phases of program development, post production, plus media events. Served as the U.S. representative for Executive producer Aubrey (now Lord) Buxton to the New York Zoological Society, National Geographic Society, and World Wildlife Fund. Worked with filmmakers Alan Root, Des & Jen Bartlett, Al Giddings, mostly on promotion, sometimes post-production.

1979- Present
Film/ Expeditions

• ABC-TV Organized film shoot in New Zealand for The American Sportsman 

• WWF/London Zoological Society Expedition to establish nature reserve in Niger

• CBS-TV Unit publicist for The Last Giraffe filmed in Kenya

• Movies for Television, treatment of  The Lunatic Express, with John Heminway

• Consultant - U.S. Sales for Oxford Scientific Films Ltd.. 1981/82 

• Consultant -WNET-TV Nature 1983

• TV Series Treatments, for Sandra Carter Productions 1996

• Travel Video -East Africa Safaris for Park East Tours 1999

I received a BA in Journalism, and then studied video post production at The New School, New York. My first big job was with the broadcast division of  J. Walter Thompson Company, then the world�s largest ad agency, where I was selected as the first U.S. employee of  Survival Anglia Ltd., whose documentaries received Peabody, Christopher and Emmy Awards for excellence in television, and Oscar nomination for best documentary.  Programs included the Survival series syndicated to 90 countries and hour network specials such as Alan Root�s Year of the Wildebeest, Secrets of the African Baobab, Mysterious Castles of Clay;  and Des & Jen Bartlett�s Flight of the Snow Geese. My work included all aspects of promotion, marketing, sales, post-production, writing word to picture (for the opening of a film by Al Giddings,) and editing commercials into the broadcast print in coordination with the major networks.

In 1978 I resigned to travel, and in addition to a film project for ABC-TV in New Zealand, worked as a still photographer on a World Wildlife Fund/London Zoological Society expedition to Niger. In 1983 I worked on brief project as a consultant to WNET-Channel 13�s Nature series per George Page�s office for the potential establishment of a natural history unit. I also worked on promoting the exceptional skills of the biologists/filmmakers at Oxford Scientific Films. They invented their own gear for capturing the natural world from a new perspective, and they are still excelling in filmmaking today. My most recent project was an 18 minute video on travel in Africa, narrated by Jack Hanna of Animal Adventures, which I produced for an amazingly low budget.