(Discovery Channel) and Into the Lion’s Den (a two-hour special for Animal Planet and Discovery Channel).

Anton’s earlier Producer/Director credits include Living With Tigers (a Discovery Channel Quest special), and Ambush in Paradise, Sense & Scentability, Savage Instinct, The Brotherhood, Ghosts of The Great Salt Lakes and Jamu: The Orphaned Leopard (all for National Geographic). For Jamu Anton spent a year on foot in the remote wilderness of Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, raising and filming an orphaned leopard cub.

Anton has worked with his Triosphere co-directors Dave Salmoni and Oloff Bergh for many years, and his credits as a Director are often matched by theirs as Presenter and Executive Producer.

Anton graduated from the Rigate School of Art in the United Kingdom, and became an acclaimed wildlife artist before he entered the film industry. His paintings of African wildlife hang in corporate and private collections around the world.

E-mail: anton@triosphere.co.za

Oloff Bergh manages the business side of Triosphere. He focuses on meshing all aspects of production towards the optimum result: delivery, on schedule and within budget, of programming of the very highest global standard.

Oloff has over 12 years’ executive management experience in international television production, and has Executive Produced more than 50 specials and series-episodes for the world’s leading broadcasters of factual programming. His Executive Producer credits include Escape to Chimp Eden, Rogue Nature, Predator versus Prey, Into the Lion’s Den, Living With Tigers, and many more.

Oloff’s particular expertise is in sourcing and negotiating broadcast contracts to finance projects, and then ensuring that all stipulations – together with the client’s expectations of quality and viewer appeal – are comfortably met.

Oloff also drives a continual process of creative programming development at Triosphere, and targets this to meet objectives set through his longstanding relationships with broadcasters of factual television.

Oloff has worked with his Triosphere co-directors Anton Truesdale and Dave Salmoni for many years, and his credits as an Executive Producer often match theirs as Director and Presenter.

Oloff graduated from the University of South Africa with a degree in Business Management and Industrial Psychology.

E-mail: oloff@triosphere.co.za

Dave Salmoni stars as Presenter of such highly rated Discovery Channel and Animal Planet series as Rogue Nature and After the Attack. Dave is also the central character and presenter in specials including Shark Tribe, Sharks: Are They Hunting Us?, Predator versus Prey and Into the Lion’s Den.

Dave is a graduate of the four-year Biology Honors Program at Laurentian University, Ontario, and maintains an academic as well as popularizing interest in the animals he works with. He’s also a respected big cat trainer in the humane modern mold. He entered the training profession after his university graduation, starting as an apprentice and working his way up to master. Several of the lions, tigers and jaguars that have appeared in major Hollywood films were guided safely by Dave through their routines.

Dave’s career as a Presenter took off through his expertise in handling tigers. Flown to Africa to assist with the tiger conservation project featured in the Discovery Channel Quest special Living With Tigers, Dave’s charisma shone through on camera, and drew unprecedented volumes of fan mail. Dave went on to feature in Animal Face-Off and Anatomy of a Tiger Bite, then graduated to presenting his own specials and series.

Dave has worked with his Triosphere co-directors Anton Truesdale and Oloff Bergh for many years, and his credits as a presenter often match theirs as Director and Executive Producer.

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