Green Planet: Company profile

Company profile

THE E.A.B. GROUP OF COMPANIES:

THE E.A.B. GROUP is a group of multi-media companies which focuses on the production of nature and environmental, and educational subjects in the form of feature films, documentaries, books, videos, CD-roms, DVD's and internet concepts. It is made up of The EAB Television and Film Production Company (TPC) and Nature Conservation Films World Wide (NCFWW).

The E.A.B. Television and Film Production Company (TPC) is the production company for all film and video productions within the E.A.B. group. TPC has produced 26 episodes of Medical Centre Mouse and 13 episodes of A Trip through DNA. This was followed by another educational, 40-part soap series on CD-ROM called Nieuwe Buren (New Neighbours), an aid to facilitate foreigners with the Dutch language.

Nature Conservation Films is the facility house that provides services in East Africa for filmproduction companies and concentrates exclusively on the production of wildlife programs and features. The crew consists of both Europeans and Tanzanians. The operation consists of one office in Arusha, Tanzania, two mobile film camps, a rolling stock of 10 Land Rover vans, and its own technical crew.

Moreover, as the company has obtained an exclusive arrangement to film in Tanzania. It enjoys complete access and has become an integral part of the conservation community. Through this arrangement, the company possesses a unique position in the world of wildlife filmmaking. Nature Conservation Films World Wide is proud to be closely associated with the 8-times EMMY Award-winning cinematographer, the late Hugo Baron van Lawick. With van Lawick Nature Conservation Films WW made The Leopard Son, and Serengeti Symphony which was five years in the making. The African King, a 77' feature, was released in 2002. In this documentary we follow a male lion on a journey of life and death and discover the harsh lessons he must learn to become the leader of his own pride. The African King is the last film Hugo van Lawick participated in.

As well as working with van Lawick, Nature Conservation Films World Wide produced Big Cats, Africa: Paradise of Thorns, commissioned by National Geographic Television and nominated for the finals at the Wildlife Film Festival Wildscreen in the UK, My backyard, the Serengeti, Serengeti Stories, The Waiting Game, The Cheetah Family, The Golden Dog, A Lioness' Tale, Playing in Savage Paradise, Tarangire, The Gates of Hell for National Geographic Television, Chimpanzees, Return to the Forest and Life in Ebb and Flow, Mountains of Eden for National Geographic US and Footprints on the Water for Animal Planet and ZDF.

Nature Conservation Films World Wide is the production and distribution company responsible for the production, distribution and sales of programs of the E.A.B.-group and third parties.

PEOPLE BEHIND THE COMPANY
Evert van den Bos:
President NCF WW & President TPC Evert van den Bos studied Law and specialized in Copyright and Media Laws. Thereafter, he studied business administration. He was policy adviser to the chairman of the AVRO for four years, after which he managed the daily operations for the same company.

In 1990, Evert founded Movies TV, a subsidiary company of Movies Film Productions. This company went on to become the strongest independent television distributor in the Benelux. In March 1993, PolyGram bought Movies Film Productions and its affiliates. Evert then ventured into forming his own company, The Television and Film Production Company.

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