Filmmaking

Adelie Productions, through its principal Director, Lloyd Spencer Davis, has been involved with making natural history and wildlife documentaries for two decades.

Films directed by Lloyd through Adelie Productions include:

Eating Like A Gannet
Eating like a Gannet
Made in association with NHNZ and Ecology Division DSIR, this film documents the change in the wolrd's only mainland colony of gannets at Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand, and relates the increasing numbers of gannets over 40 years to changes in their food supply brought about by overfishing. In essence, overfishing has removed many of the top fish predators from the ecosystem, allowing numbers of the smaller fish on which they and the gannets prey to increase unabated, thereby providing a bonanza for the gannets.

The film is distinguished by its beautiful lighting and initmate look into the lives of gannets. Written and directed by Lloyd.

Under Galapagos
The idea behind this film, directed, produced and co-written by Lloyd, is to examine how Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution may have been affected had he had an aqualung and been able to explore underwater around the Galapagos Islands. Made in association with NHNZ and PBS, the film entailed spending nearly three weeks on a yacht around the Galapagos Islands. Combining stunning underwater sequences with a beautiful score, it shows how differences in animals above the waterline and similarities in those below, while at first glance contradictory, both provide evidence for evolution by natural selection.

Meet The Real Penguins
Meet the Real Penguins
A major romp through the world of penguins (in fact, marketed in USA under the title The World of Penguins), this film directed by Lloyd and for which he was also senior scriptwriter has proved a big hit, winning 12 international awards to date. These include the Abu Prize for Best Documentary at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, Hong Kong; the Prix Special du Jury at the Festival de L'Oiseau, Abbeville, France; and the Special Prize of the Jury, 1st International Science Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary.