Wildlife Filmmaker | Natural History Cinematographer
Andrew Manske Cinematography | Natural History Films | Archive
Emmy Award winning cinematographer Andrew Manske has over 25 years of filmmaking experience directing and producing natural history documentaries and wildlife films for the international market. Andrew is driven by his contagious passion for our natural world and specializes in capturing rare images of elusive and endangered wild animals of the Canadian north; in hopes of bringing awareness and a greater understanding of extremely volatile species, like wolverines, polar bears, woodland caribou, snowy owls and barren-ground wolves.
LONE WOLF HUNTS CARIBOU HERD
Director of Photography Andrew Manske has been filming barren-ground wolves, black bears & grizzlies hunt migrating caribou herds across North America for decades; zeroing in on key predator-prey scenarios. This is one of Andrew Manske’s Wolf Hunt scenes featured in Nat Geo Wild: Alaska’s Deadliest and Untamed Americas. (Footage ©Andrew Manske 00-1:42)
RAINFOREST WOLVES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Andrew Manske has spent many weeks over several years camped alone on a remote island off the coast of BC to film a unique pack of wolves that hunt spawning salmon and can survive annually off the fruits of the sea. One of Manske’s wolf sequences is featured here in Wild Canada – The Wild West. (Footage ©Andrew Manske 10:00 – 14:05)
Wolverine Madness! – CBC The National “You’ve Got to be a little bit crazy…”
“After weeks hunkered down in the snow hidden in a small camera hut, Andrew Manske’s patience finally pays off.” CBC/Radio-Canada : “Rare Wolverine Footage” story by Terry Reith, CBC – The National. (Original Footage ©Andrew Manske)
WAITING FOR A WOLVERINE
National Geographic Wild – “Filmmaker Andrew Manske has been waiting for days, hoping to get a glimpse of an elusive wolverine.” Wolverine: Ghost of the Northern Forest – 52min ©Andrew Manske, Compass Media Inc.
SNOWY OWL HUNT
National Geographic Television – Snowy owls hunt lemmings and meadow voles in this sequence; Andrew Manske filmed the snowy at 1:06+, featured in Nat Geo Wild: Alaska’s Grizzly Gauntlet streaming now on Disney+ (©A.Manske 1:06+)
Elusive Wolves of the Sea
Director of Photography Andrew Manske began filming coast wolves in British Columbia back in 2003 and captured some of the first images of wolves hunting spawning salmon. Ever since then he’s been ‘hooked’. Manske’s cinematography and his infamous wolf encounters are featured in the documentary “Secrets of the Coast Wolf” – originally aired on Discovery now streaming on Real Wild.