Florian Fussstetter

Role: DoP, Director, Editor

Co-produced and directed with Duncan Moore

Drone: Luke Gent

A short documentary about Björn Persson, a visionary fine art wildlife photographer, on a captivating journey to capture the essence of animals and embark on a quest to find Mfalme (The King in Swahili) - a giant white rhino. Experience the soul-stirring beauty of nature as Björn's lens seeks to reveal the untold stories of these majestic, ancient and living souls.

Role: Director of Photography, Editor

Production Company: Dreamcatcher Expedition Films

Producer/Director: Michael Booth

The Pole to Pole Electric Vehicle Expedition is not a race. It is a mindful, epic journey of discovery, learning and hope as husband and wife team, Chris and Julie Ramsey aim to become the first people in history to drive a vehicle from a Magnetic North Pole location to the geographical South Pole in Antarctica. Powered by the kindness of strangers and at times, renewable energy where they can find it along the way.

Already as part of the expedition, the couple have become the first people in history to drive their electric car to a Magnetic North Pole location deep into the Arctic Ocean. They are currently still on the expedition travelling through the America's and heading into Antarctica for the last leg in December 2023.

This is a trailer for what they hope can become a documentary of their expedition. Please share far and wide, and if you are a production company or commissioner, please head to www.poletopoleev.com and reach out if you are interested in discussing documentary options.

Role: VR Cinematographer

Produced and directed by: Michael Booth

Production Company: https://www.go-dreamcatcher.com

Narrated by Ian Redmond, Engagi showcases the important work that UNEP, UN GRASP, and local partners carry out in Uganda and Rwanda to protect endangered mountain gorillas under the Vanishing Treasures programme. The VR360 film is currently available to experience at the lower concourse of the UN Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya during UNEA6.

Executive Producer of UNEP’s award winning short doc series RESTORE, which captures the world’s most inspiring initiatives to revive the planet.

Role: Executive Producer

Role: Director/DoP/Editor

Role: Executive Producer, Concept

This video shows young entrepreneur Ankit Agarwal who turns flower waste from temples in India into innovative products.

Role: Director/Camera/Editor

Photographer/Writer: Georgina Smith

Client: UN Environment Programme Global HQ

In India, Shiva is the god of destruction. His job is to destroy the universe to re-create it. Every morning, Hindu temple bells ring out across the mist. The sound mingles with chanting, as groups of people gather to offer orange and pink flowers, milk and incense. 

But in the same way that metal can be melted down and cast into a beautiful statue, Shiva’s strength lies not in destruction but in the creation of something new. Where there is disruption there is renewal, and worshippers pray for opportunity and positive change. 

This is what entrepreneur and Young Champion of the Earth finalist Ankit Agarwal contemplated one day, when he hit upon an idea. Looking out onto the River Ganges—the lifeline for more than 400 million people which provides 40 per cent of India’s population with water—he realized a paradox. 

The Ganges river has deep religious significance for Hindus. Millions bathe in its waters, believing they wash away sins. It is also highly polluted. 

“As I was thinking about this, a temple truck dumped flowers right in front of me. Then it struck me: this is something I’ve seen all my life. I didn’t think of flowers as pollution. I started studying the life-cycle of flowers and was amazed,” says Agarwal. 

View the full story at: https://web.unep.org/environmentassembly/es/node/42153

This is the official curtain raiser video for World Environment Day 2019 hosted by China with the theme BeatAirPollution.

Role: Director/Editor

Client: UN Environment Programme Global HQ

Role: Director, Producer, DoP, Editor

Role: Director of Photography

The PSA

Role: Executive Producer/Concept Development

Participants: Billie Eilish, Bill Nye, Jane Goodall, Alec Baldwin, Karry Wang, Paul Nicklen and many more.

Production Company: All Of Us Films

This World Environment Day we were inviting the world to tell us why it’s time for nature.

With one million animal and plant species threatened by extinction, this PSA drives awarenesses on the the interconnectedness of nature and humans.

Icons such as Billie Eilish, Bill Nye, Jane Goodall and Alec Baldwin lent us their voices for a global call to action #ForNature.

The Campaign:

Role: Multimedia Lead

The WED - 2020 campaign Time for Nature was focusing on the topics biodiversity and nature. As the multimedia lead I was part of the core campaign team and in charge of all multimedia products. Our videos were watched by 25 million people across our digital platforms in more than 13 languages and got picked up by magazines such as AdWeek and B&T, public transport networks across the globe and major media outlets such as France24, tapping into their weekly audience of 80 million people.

Role: Executive Producer (champions of the earth series), DoP (Nzambi Matee episode)

Role: Director/Camera/Editor

Rosemary Auloch, former player in the Kenyan football national team "Harambe Starlets" coaches young kids who are living around the Dandora Dumpsite. She teaches them how to use their skills in football and apply them in their daily lives.

Role: Director/Producer Kenya

DoP Kenya: Jim Bishop

1st AC Kenya: Onesmus Matheka Karanja

Production Company: FelaTV

Agency: Project Everyone

Client: Gates Foundation

Role: Director/Camera/Editor

GEO-6 is the world’s most comprehensive environmental report, covering a range of topics, issues and potential solutions. This video takes a look behind the scenes and shows what it takes to create such a report.

The Campaign:

Role: Multimedia Lead/Producer/Editor

The WED - 2020 campaign Time for Nature was focusing on the topics biodiversity and nature. As the multimedia lead I was part of the core campaign team and in charge of all multimedia products. Our videos were watched by 25 million people across our digital platforms in more than 13 languages and got picked up by magazines such as AdWeek and B&T, public transport networks across the globe and major media outlets such as France24, tapping into their weekly audience of 80 million people.

Role: Photographer/Director/Editor

The CITES Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) Programme is a site-based system designed to monitor trends in the illegal killing of elephants, build management capacity and provide information to help range States make appropriate management and enforcement decisions. But how do they get the right numbers?

This 6-part training series will equip rangers with the knowledge to examine elephant carcasses, to help tackling illegal wildlife trade.

Role: Producer/Director/Editor

Client: UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

As the world strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit climate change, it is crucial to track progress towards globally agreed climate goals. For a decade, UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report has compared where greenhouse gas emissions are heading against where they need to be, and highlighted the best ways to close the gap. Are we meeting goals of the Paris Climate Agreement?

Role: Director, Editor

Footage: Footage Films, UNEP Archive, My own footage

For Nikon Europe and Nikon Netherlands we produced a series of videos and photos “I am black and white”. The videos were focusing on the work of star photographer and Nikon Ambassador David Yarrow and dutch top model Kim Feenstra in Amboseli National Park Kenya to take pictures of “Tim” - the biggest tusker alive.

Role: Line Producer/Photographer

Director: Joris Noordenbos, Alison Porter

DoP: Youp Kruijsdijk

Agency: Made for Digital, Media HQ

Meet the UN Young Champion of the Earth from 2017, Mariama Mamane, who turns water hyacinth, an invasive species, into fertiliser, bio-gas and energy. Her pilot program prevents desertification, creates food security and converts a problem into a livelihood opportunity for people in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Role: Director/Camera/Editor

Photographer/Writer: Georgina Smith

Client: UN Environment Programme Global HQ

The sun fades fast on a small village surrounding the outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital city. Shadows fall in long dark lines across a neat row of houses. A group of school children race through the alleyways on their way home, clutching their school books.

Outside one of the houses, Mariama Mamane sits on the ground in the dust, huddled over a blue generator. The 29-year-old environmental engineer is attaching a large blue square bag containing biogas to a generator with a long tube.

The generator is stuck. With determination fixed on her face, she switches a series of tools between her hands as she tries to kick-start the machine branded “Jacigreen”—the name of her company founded in 2016. “It will work!” she says.

Jacigreen tackles the problem of invasive water hyacinth plants chocking the city’s water supply. Her invention cuts up water hyacinth, fermenting it into fertilizer and compost for farmers, called Jacigrow—available in bottles of 250 ml, 0.5 litres, 1 litre and 5 litres.

View the full story at:

https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/persistence-pays-powering-green-economy

For the Danish Ethical Trading Initiative (DIEH) I produced a series of videos highlighting female entrepreneurs in the coffee sector.

Role: Director/Producer/Editor

Agency: Media HQ

Client: Danish Ethical Trading Initiative (DIEH)

DoP: Wendy Kirorei

Every year, Goalkeepers presents the annual Global Goals Awards by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. These Awards tell the extraordinary stories of remarkable individuals taking action to bring the Global Goals to life and help achieve them by 2030. This film was produced for the Award Ceremony 2018 highlighting the work of Dysmus Kisilu and Solar Freeze.

Role: Director/Producer

Client: Project Everyone

Agencies: BlueSky Africa / Media HQ

DoP: Justin Wachira

Camera Asistant: Onesmus Matheka Karanja

Sound: Ali Abdallah