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Karin Slater’s deep interest in nature has led her to document the lives of interesting people and wilderness areas across the globe over the last 30 years of working as a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer.
She’s raised two leopards and lived with a lioness, cheetahs and tigers while making wildlife documentaries.
Her films have screened at Sundance, Berlinale, Hot Docs, Museum of Modern Art in New York and she has won numerous awards including the Trailblazer Award for innovative and creative work in the field of documentaries at Mipdoc, Cannes 2008 and at the New York Film and Television Awards in 2016.
She has been commissioned by National Geographic, Animal Planet, BBC and Al Jazeera. She’s also a published photographer and teacher of documentary film. She has also been honoured as a lifetime member of the Academy and judge of the Oscars.
Independent Producer / Director / Cinematographer working on a variety of Local & International Documentaries (* see Directed Documentary List) for Discovery Channel, HBO, BBC, BOS, SABC, Animal Planet, Disney Documentaries have been selected to be screened at Sundance, Berlinale, Hot Docs, MOMA New York and numerous International Film Festivals
Started production company Durga Shakti Films / In De Light
Worked on Wildlife & Cultural Documentaries for LONDOLOZI PRODUCTIONS as: Producer / Director / Cinematographer / Editor / Researcher Sound Recordist / Stills Photographer / Animal Handler
Started a production company, OUT OF A SUITCASE, making adventure documentaries for National Geographic
Worked as a freelance Camerawoman
Worked as Camerawoman / Editor for Prestige Video Productions – Israel
Camerawoman / Editor for TV commercials, documentaries and educational
programmes for CTV, Namibia
Invited as a lifetime member of The Academy and judge of the Oscars
Sisters of the Wilderness, eligible for an Oscar Award after winning the
Best SA Documentary Award at Durban International Film Festival 2018.
Also won Best Feature Documentary Award at the International Innovative Film Festival, Switzerland 2019, Audience Award at VSAFF, Vancouver and had a special screening at Wildscreen, Bristol, 2018
Kenya’s Water Women nominated for the New York Film & Television Award in the Best Social Documentary Award
MIPDOC Trailblazer 2008 Award, Cannes
(One in five documentary filmmakers selected from around the world for doing innovative and creative work in the field of documentaries)
Best South African Documentary 50 Years! Of Love?
Apollo Film Festival 2008
Documentary Directors ‘Post Grad’ – Binger Institute (Amsterdam) / SABC
The Meaning of the Buffalo – Sundance Film Festival, MoMA, Berlinale
Kodak Cinematographers workshop
4 Avanti Awards for Direction, Script, Music and Narration on Animal Powers
National Diploma in Television Production – Technikon Natal
Awarded Best Student Director 1989
Additional subjects : Photography, Music
The Lion Queen
90’ / 2021 / Disney / Plimsoll Productions
Sisters of the Wilderness
90’ / 2018 / One Nature London / In De light
Chimp Man of Mahale
29’ / 2019 / In De Light / CGTN
Defender of the Sacred Sites
2019 / In De Light / CGTN
The Unlikely Birdman
29’ / 2019 / Fireworx / CGTN
Climbing the Ladder
35’ / 2016 / Big World Cinema /Just Films
Brazil: One in Three
24’ / 2015 / Big World Cinema /Al Jazeera
Kenya’s Water Women
24’ / 2015 / Big World Cinema/ Al Jazeera
Table for Two
10’ / 2014 / In De Light / Encounters Film Lab
The Grass is the Blanket
26’ / 2013 / In De Light / Steps
An intersection
26’ / 2011 / In De Light / Steps
India : Live and Let Live
26’ / 2009 / Durga Shakti Films /African Rennaissance
Through Different Eyes
26’ / 2009 / Durga Shakti Films /African Rennaissance
Laxmi’s Blessings
26’ / 2008 / Durga Shakti Films /African Rennaissance
50 Years! Of Love?
86’/52’ 2008 / Durga Shakti Films
10 Trillion Cells in Flux
3’ / 2007 / Durga Shakti Films / Encounters Film Lab
Buddha in Zululand
30’ / 2006 / Durga Shakti Films / BOS
Finding Grace
5’ / 2006 / Durga Shakti Films / BBC
Prenessa & the Dolphins
24’ / 2006 / Durga Shakti Films / Mafisa Media
Riemvasmaak
24’ / 2006 / Durga Shakti Films / Mafisa Media
From Nkoko…with Love
48’ / 2005 / Durga Shakti Films
Meaning of the Buffalo
61’ / 2004 / Durga Shakti Films / Mafisa Media
Roads to Restitution
52’ / 2003 / Durga Shakti Films / Mafisa Media / IUCN
The Hidden Landscape
10’ / 2002 / Durga Shakti Films
Amagugu
40’ / 2002 / Mafisa Media /IUCN
Scars
26’ / 2002 / Durga Shakti Films
Animal Powers
52’ / 2001 / Londolozi Productions / National Geographic
The Tracker
52’ / 2000 / Londolozi Productions / National Geographic
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