SERIES PRODUCER, PRODUCER-DIRECTOR & WRITER
NDA - Humble Bee Films for Sky Nature & Blue Ant Media, delivers late 2025
Series Producer of , 3x 1-hour magical blue-chip natural-history series.
SHARK VS ROSS EDGLEY - Big Wave Productions for National Geographic on Disney+ - TX June 2024
Director of 1x 1-hour adventure wildlife show - Ultra athlete and shark advocate, Ross Edglely goes head-to-head against four of the ocean’s most formidable sharks in one of the world’s MOST unique shark-sport science challenge.
ISLANDS: NATURE’S WILD LABORATORIES - Wall to Wall Media for Sky Nature, Fremantle & Discovery Asia
Executive/Series Producer of 6x 1-hour blue-chip natural history on what skills and adaptations wildlife needs to deploy to survive the climate and geological challenges of six very different islands from the Arctic to the Tropics - Baffin Island, Borneo, K’Gari, Okavango Islands, Sri Lanka & Vancouver Island.
GROWING UP ANIMAL - Wall to Wall Media for National Geographic on Disney+
Executive/Series Producer of 6x 1-hour blue-chip natural history episodes on the challenges for animal mothers and their new babies through pregnancy and the first milestones of life with specialist in-utero filming of hyper-realistic models.
ANIMAL BABIES - FIRST YEAR ON EARTH - BBC Natural History Unit, PBS & BBC Worldwide
Series Producer of 3x 1-hour wildlife documentary series on the first and most hazardous year in the lives of six baby animals - Mountain Gorilla, Savanna Elephant, Spotted Hyena, Southern Sea Otter, Toque Macaque and Arctic Fox, filming in Uganda, Kenya, USA, Sri Lanka and Iceland.
Executive Producer: Jo Shinner.
EXPEDITION MUNGO - Blast! Films for Animal Planet
Producer/Director of the first 2 episodes (shot in Peru and Argentina), of a new 6x 1-hour adventure series fronted by action cameraman Paul "Mungo" Mungeam, trying to uncover the real culprits behind unexplained attacks in remote and challenging locations.
Edit Producer of the last episode shot in Namibia.
SAVAGE KINGDOM - Icon Films and NHFU Botswana for National Geographic Wild
- BEST SERIES FINALIST - JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL 2017 -
Series Producer of 6x 1-hour on a ground-breaking new wildlife series focussing on rival predator clans in northern Botswana - two lion prides, leopard, hyena and wild dogs. Shot on Red multi-caners.
Worked closely with Hans Zimmer's/Extreme Music's 'Bleeding Fingers Music Shop' to score the entire series.
RIVER MONSTERS – Seasons 4, 5, 6 & 7, Icon Films for Animal Planet & ITV Global
Writer and Director of 6 episodes (including 3 feature-length) of the hit television series with Jeremy Wade. Filmed on location in Australia, Africa, North America, South America and Europe. Additional dramatic reconstructions shot in the UK, including an underwater dive shoot featuring a sunken Amazon riverboat escape.
The 2-hour special 'Prehistoric Terror', a co-production with Discovery Canada, used 3D CGI created by Digital Dimension in Montréal, to recreate extinct prehistoric river monsters.
The 2-hour special 'Amazon Apocalypse' achieved the highest season open figures for any series ever.
The 2-hour special ‘Legend of Loch Ness’ achieved the highest viewing figures for all RM series to date.
Executive Producer on "Invisible Killers" Special, directed by Vicky Hinners
WHITLEY AWARDS FOR NATURE – Writer and Director of 20th anniversary film, presented by Sir David Attenborough and featuring an interview with the charity’s Patron, HRH the Princess Royal
Winners' Profile films narrated by Hugh Bonneville.
THE ONE SHOW – Season 5, Icon Films for the BBC
Series Producer heading up a team of Directors producing 68 VT inserts for the BBC 1 primetime series; genres included British social history & archaeology, science & technology and natural history.
DESERT SEAS/SEAS OF CHANGE, Icon Films for National Geographic & Saudi Aramco
One of a team of Directors working on an unprecedented 1-hour underwater documentary filmed in the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf waters of Saudi Arabia.
THE ONE SHOW – Seasons 1-3, Icon Films for the BBC
Director and Series Producer of more than 50 VT inserts for the BBC 1 primetime show.
ARKive, Director and Producer of ARKive’s new promo introduced by Sir David Attenborough,
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STREET MONKEYS, Icon Films for National Geographic
Edit Producer for 2x 1 hours on troops of Vervet Monkeys living in the midst of an exclusive housing estate in South Africa.
SKY MONSTERS, Icon Films for Five
Reversioning Producer for 1x 90 minute National Geographic Pterosaur special.
HELMUT KOHL - GERMAN GIANT, Parthenon Entertainment
Reversioning Producer for 1x 1 hour on Germany’s controversial Chancellor.
EVEREST - BEYOND THE LIMIT - 12 SHORTS, Tigress Productions for Discovery Europe
Edit Producer of 12 short films on the 2006 Everest expedition,
PLANET WILD, Parthenon Entertainment for Animal Planet
Script Editor and Reversioning Producer for 7x 30 minute wildlife series.
HITLER’S LOST SOLDIER, Parthenon Entertainment
Reversioning Producer for 1x 1 hour on German POW on the run in the USA for 40 years,
LIVING EDENS, Parthenon Entertainment for National Geographic.
Reversioning Producer for 13x 1 hour blue chip specials.
NODDY, Chorion plc. Voice Director for console & CD-ROM games for VTech, Mindscape & Leapfrog
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, Granada Bristol for ITV. Producer of title sequence
NODDY, Chorion plc. Voice Director for DVD & CD-ROM games, Mindscape & Lexibook
A.T.O.M., Jetix Europe Ltd. Director for 3 minute promo for new children’s animated series.
NODDY, Voice Director for console & CD-ROM games, Bright Things & Mindscape
THIS MODEL LIFE, Granada Factual North for Channel Four. Title sequence Producer
TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE, Flip Flop Films for Channel 4.
Co-Producer/Director for 4x 3 minute films on ageing performers. Finalist at Brief Encounters 2004
NODDY, Chorion plc. Casting Director to find new voice talent for the role of Noddy.
CAMERA CRACK-UPS, Flip Flop Films for Fox Kids. Director of 100x 2 minute animations.
TEREZIN - The Town Hitler Gave to the Jews, Flip Flop Films for Granada.
Producer and Writer for 14 minute taster.
ABDI'S STORY, Peartree Films. Producer and Writer for 1x 1 hour. Finalist at Missoula 2002
WATERS OF LIFE, Partridge Films for ITEL. Edit Producer and Writer. 3x 1 hours on marine wildlife
FESTIVALS
SHEPTON MALLET DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL – Festival joint programmer, panel chair and judge
WILDSCREEN INDIA, 2008 & 2010 Presenting television storytelling workshops in Indian and Sri Lankan cities in an outreach project of the Wildscreen Festival; produced in conjunction with the British Council.
WILDSCREEN, International Wildlife Film Festival staged biennially in Bristol. Worked as a key member of Core Content Team and was responsible for technical and presentational aspects of the Festival including writing and producing the live Awards Ceremony in 2004, 2006 & 2008, presented in front of 650 guests, and creating dramatic audio-visual opening and closing sequences.
SCRIPT WRITER/EDITOR
UNTAMED EUROPE, Script Editor for 3 of 4x 1 hour on European wildlife, Parthenon Entertainment
THE LOST GODS, Script Editor for 1x 90 minutes on ancient civilizations, Parthenon Entertainment
THE BIG SWELL, Script Editor for 1x 1 hour, Swell Pictures for Tapestry International
JULES' MOST DANGEROUS, Writer for 2x 1 hour, Partridge Films for Discovery
BOTSWANA'S WILD KINGDOMS, Writer for 3x 1 hour, Partridge Films for ITEL
BARRACUDA!, Script Editor for 1x 1 hour, Partridge Films for Discovery
RIVER WOLVES - THE GIANT OTTERS OF PERU, Writer for1x 1 hour, Partridge for Channel 4
A TIGER'S TALE, Script Editor for 1x 1 hour, Partridge for BBC NHU/WNET NatureTHE OTTERS OF YELLOWSTONE, Script Editor for 1x 1 hour, Partridge for BBC NHU/WNET
EDUCATION & TRAINING
2018 Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, MOOC, University of Pennsylvania
2018 First Aid on Remote Locations, Lazarus Training, BBC Wood Norton
2017 Starting to Write Poetry, residential writing course on poetry, Arvon
2016 Remote Trauma Refresher Course, Remote Trauma, London
2015 Jump Right In, residential writing course on overlap between fiction, non-fiction & poetry, Arvon
2014 Remote Trauma Course, 1st Option, Bristol
2011 Safe Management of Productions, 1st Option, Bristol
2010 Cross-Platform Storytelling, Indie Training Fund, London
2004 Workstation Assessment & Manual Handling - Granada Health & Safety, Bristol
2003 Determining Competence – HS10, Granada Health & Safety, London
2001 Producer’s Foundation, BBC Training and Development, London
2000 NVQ Unit X3, Health and Safety – Assessing and Managing Risks, BBC
1998 Writing Commentary, NSCTP, Beaconsfield
1997 Internet as a research tool, UWE, Bristol
1996 Production Managers’ Course, NSCTP, Beaconsfield
1998 – 2001 Bristol School of Shiatsu
Diploma in Shiatsu
1985 - 1988 University of Exeter
BA (Hons) Drama in the School of English: 2:1
1983 - 1985 Reading Grammar School, Reading, Berkshire
GCE 'A' levels: Art, Biology, Chemistry, Maths
GCE 'O' level: Art
1978 - 1983 Hampton School, Hampton, Middlesex
GCE A/O level: Maths
Ten GCE 'O' levels (including Maths & English)
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full Name: Dominic William James Weston
Date of Birth: 5 June 1967
Nationality: British
Marital Status: Married
Driver: Full, clean driving licence
Interests: Writing, Running, Cooking
REFEREES
Jeremy Dear & Jo Shinner