Dr. Paul Stewart

Multiple Primetime Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning Paul D. Stewart, is a Cinematographer & Producer specialising in science and wildlife for television and feature films. 

He is driven by a deep fascination and concern for all aspects of this Planet’s diversity, from fossils and archaeology, through wildlife and anthropology. 

After graduating in Zoology in 1987, Paul began his professional career as a tropical zoologist and explorer studying everything from cave crocodiles to cocoa beans. After a stint as field assistant with Partridge Films he worked as a principle series Researcher for the BBC, ultimately becoming a Producer for the BBC1 series The Velvet Claw in 1992.

In 1993 he returned with a scholarship to Oxford University and completed a Doctorate in Zoology at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit. Then in 1998 he joined the BBC’s Natural History Unit to train as its Bursary Wildlife Cameraman. In 2000 after being awarded a Churchill Expedition Leader Fellowship he went freelance.

During the last 25 years he has filmed for many of the BBC’s finest natural history series and features. His filmed sequences have won BAFTA TV moment of the year among other accolades. He has been a cinematographer on iconic series including: Blue Planet, Planet Earth (I & II), Dynasties, Life of Mammals, Life in Cold Blood, Galapagos, Yellowstone, and Life Story. 

Recent Feature productions have included Eden for Ron Howard and Sea Lions of the Galapagos for Disney. Series in production include Darren Aronofsky's “Sentient” and Ryan Reynolds' Underdogs. Tx’d series include Prehistoric Planet for Apple+, Our Planet for Netflix, Hostile Planet for Nat Geo and the Features, Elephant Eden and Born in China for Disney Nature.

At home his collection includes artefacts from every stage in the world’s history from an 8 billion years old meteorite to computer chips from NASA’s Apollo mission computers!