Pierce Brosnan

Robert Schneider

Robert Schneider is the producer and principle investor in the Aldabra project.

Petr Keller

Petr Keller is the producer. He first considered the idea to film a movie about Aldabra atoll as far back as 2005. Keller has been active in audio-visual production for over fifteen years and founded successful company Starlite Pictures in 2000. During his career he has worked with many producers, directors and artists from around the world, including Guillermo Del Torro, Lawrence Gordon, Daniel Kleinman, will.i.am, and others. He has been working on Aldabra since 2005.

Steve L. Lichtag

Film producer and director Steve Lichtag was born in Czechoslovakia, but lived and worked in the USA from 1980 to 1990. His films focus primarily on wildlife and the marine world. Lichtag's films have won more than 60 international awards in 18 countries.

Don Hahn

Don Hahn is an American film producer who's credited with producing some of the most successful animated films in recent history, including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, the first animated film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was also Executive Producer of the Disneynature films Earth, Oceans, African Cats and Chimpanzee, all of which placed in the top five grossing nature movies of all time.

Kirk Wise

Kirk Wise is an American film director, animator and screenwriter best known for his work at Disney. Wise has directed such Disney movies as Beauty and the Beast, the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He also directed the English language translation of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

David Reynolds

David Reynolds began his writing career in 1993 as one of the original writers on NBC's'Late Night With Conan O'Brien'. In 1995 Dave took a job with Walt Disney Feature Animation and Pixar. For the next six years, he worked on almost every Disney or Pixar animated movie in production. Including the screenplay for 'The Emperor's New Groove' as well as co-writing 'Finding Nemo'. He was nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay for Finding Nemo as well as a BAFTA for New Groove.

Michael Havas

Michael Havas was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, but grew up in New Zealand. He has written, directed and produced over 50 films, many of which won international awards. Havas has worked with television networks such as the BBC, Channel 4, The Discovery Channel, ZDF, ARD, ARTE, MTV and ORF.

David Hannan

David Hannan's cinematography is featured in some of the world's most successful natural history feature films, television programs and series. These include the BBC's 'The Blue Planet', National Geographic 'The Shape of Life' and 'Great Migrations' series and David Suzuki's 'The Nature of Things'. David Hannan and Plankton Productions are currently releasing the '20th Anniversary Collectors Edition' of 'Coral Sea Dreaming - A Celebration of Reefs' with MLJ-Network.

William C. Parks

William C. Parks lives and works in Florida as a professional technical diver, oceanographer and expert on marine life. For more than 30 years, he has dedicated himself to the research and preservation of endangered marine species.

Ernst Pindur

Petr Kašpar

Petr Kaspar is a filmmaker and author of films on extreme sports. He moves with the camera along the ground, in the air and underwater. More than ten years participates in the implementation of expeditions athletes in extreme environments Himalayas, Africa and other locations around the world. Petr is since 2008 part of Twin Star Film. He is dedicated to the development of film technology. For 3D film projects Aldabra and Shark Odyssey he designed and has developed together with leading technology centers in the Czech Republic a unique underwater 3D camera systems and 3D RIG for film cameras RED EPIC.

Ondřej Hošek

Ondřej Hosek studied at the Film Academy subject of camera. His bachelors work was dedicated to theme of extreme documentary film directed by Steve Lichtag. Therefore he received an offer from Twin Star Film on cooperation and the cinematographer he worked on the set of the film SANDSTONE (directed by P. Kaspar) and after that followed the filming of Tibet - Last trip in Nepal, Tibet, India and Mongolia.

Vojtěch Nedvěd

Vojtěch Nedved graduated from film school, subject of editing and camera. His bachelors work was devoted to the topic of stereoscopy, where he is professionally engaged. Since 2009 he is a member of Team Twin Star Film for the position of director of photography and stereographer. In the Aldabra project he was a key member of the underwater team.

Miroslav Hrdý

Director and cinematographer of documentary films about water, insects and nature around us. Miroslav is dedicated to filming and photography since 1994.. For his documentary he won many awards at film festivals at home and abroad.

Jindřich Soukal

Jindrich Soukal, longtime diving instructor (issued over 700 certifications) and professional diver leads the underwater work logistics during filming. He has participated in and led many diving expeditions (South Africa, Mozambique, Galapagos, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.). Since 2005 he is a member of Team Twin Star Film, where in addition to the functions he holds the post of 3D underwater cameraman.

Radim Kotěšovec

Since 2003, Radim has participated on such films as Last hunters, Dance of the Blue Angels, Myth Called Shark, Prisoners of a White God, Bizarre World, Sandstone and many others for which he owns a number of international awards. For 10 years he has been Head of Acquisitions at the International Film Festival of Water, Sea & Ocean and for the fifth time he co-organise NAIFF film festival. Since 2013 Radim teaches film studies at the Department of Visual Anthropology in Faculty of Arts at the University of Pardubice.

Martin Švagr

Martin Paleček

Martin Paleček is for many years devoted to the visual post production of commercials, as well as feature films. In ACE post studio he implemented leading Czech film projects such as Bathory, Maj, Tobruk (The Best VFX, Los Angeles Movie Award) and also the first Czech 3D stereoscopic film V perine.

H.E. Rolph Payet

Sir James Mancham

Ambassador Maurice Loustau-Lalanne

Dr Frauke Fleischer-Dogley

Francis Roucou

Christophe Condé

Luboš Jirgl

Dennis Hansen, PhD

Michael Rutzen

Michael Rutzen is recognised as one of the world's leading experts on sharks and their conservation. He achieved international renown thanks to his television show “SHARKMAN”, which was recorded for The Discovery Channel. He has also worked as cameraman on many productions, including key programmes for National Geographic and BBC TV.