Just completed an amazing week shooting in Bahia Los Angeles with Dokument Films and actor Brady Smith. Filming sharks and especially Whale Sharks is something I have had the pleasure of doing several times this year. Working on pilot stories and meeting new people is another great pleasure of working in the TV and Film industry. However this experience was all together different……….
I had the pleasure of being invited by Dokument Films to shoot both topside and underwater for a TV Pilot about Brady´s adventures with Sharks, Shark scientists and various Shark Conservation advocates around the World. Dokument Films even interviewed me!
I am a huge Advocate for Shark conservation and never quite realised how much all my work with Adoptashark and the beautiful but painful story behind Iemanya Oceanica meant to me.
It is strange as a film maker and lighting cameraman to be behind the camera and have the emotion of an interview and your attachment to it bring tears to your eyes. I blame Rachel Graham for making me cry and Laleh for just being Laleh!
The finished version of this pilot is a tribute to some very conservation minded people. I want to dedicate my small contribution to the inspiration that is Laleh at Iemanya…Without the love and affection of Laleh and her family, my shark conservation antics would be gracing another non-profit and I would simply not be happy with that. Laleh…thank you xxx
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About Luke Inman
Originally from Great Britain, Luke is an award winning Lighting Cameraman, Photographer and Adventurer. Luke is passionate about Shark Conservation and about being underwater!
He has filmed above and below land for the BBC, The BBC Natural History Unit, National Geographic, Lucas Films, Castle Rock Entertainment, The Monterey Bay Aquarium, Warner Music, Discovery and Animal Planet.
He has photographed diverse subjects for various publications, commissions, editorial and advertising from living legends like golfer Gary Player to mystical archeologically sites deep underwater.
Luke is a very accomplished Scuba Diver. He has been a PADI Course Director for over a decade; he was one of the youngest Master Instructors to ever have been invited to become an Instructor Trainer.
Luke has been diving and teaching technical scuba and rebreather for 14 years. Luke was part of the original dive team to start using military grade rebreather equipment to tag pelagic hammerhead sharks for conservation and research. It was these expeditions that led to the successful creation of www.adoptashark.com and to collaboration with UC Davis in California and the National Park Service to come up with a structured outline for using rebreathers in scientific research.
Luke has been a consultant for both PADI and IANTD Central America regarding training issues for Scuba diving. Luke has worked as a trouble-shooter and fixer for various productions and expeditions in North and Central America, pulling off some amazing victories against Latin American bureaucracy and preventing many a Producers and Editors heart failure.
After graduating from the University of the West of England (Business & Marketing) Luke attended the London International Film School. Luke has settled in La Paz, Mexico and now holds both British and Mexican Nationalities.
Luke´s favourite part of his day is walking his dogs.
