English
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata. A Maori proverb that asks what is the most important thing in the world, and answers with “The people, the people, the people”. That’s what gets me up in the morning. The super-smart people I get to work with, learn from, lead and support. The stories I can tell about people and the world they live in. And the amazing audience that listens to our stories with wrapt attention and wants to know more. He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
Craig is an executive producer and writer of science and wildlife documentaries and factual television programs.
He has earned three U.S. Emmy Award nominations and two Gold Medals at the New York Film and Television Festival for his documentaries.
As a producer, director and writer he’s made over 500 hours of international factual and documentary television. He’s developed and sold an additional 350 hours of programming. As an executive producer and showrunner he has led more than 200 hours of successful productions for international broadcasters over the last ten years.
Craig has been producing international science and nature television since 1995, when he was a field director on Discovery Channel’s landmark series Beyond 2000. He has gone on to make films for Nat Geo, PBS, Love Nature, RTE, RTL, France 5, Arte, ZDF, NHK, CCTV, TVNZ and ABC Australia.
His credits include Big Pacific for PBS/Arte/NHK/CCTV, Emmy-nominated Saving Africa’s Giants with Yao Ming for Animal Planet/CCTV, Wild, Smart, and Deadly for National Geographic, and Planet Weird for Love Nature. He also produced and directed House from Hell, which the Big Brother format was based on, Treasure Island, Temptation Island, The Mole and Survivor.
After hours, he is a Station Officer and medical first responder for Fire Emergency New Zealand, where he leads teams at structure fires, motor vehicle crashes, and medical events.