Icon Films and Natural History Film Unit Botswana have been commissioned to produce a documentary about the life of Africa\u2019s Hippopotamus for BBC Two in the U.K. and PBS station WNET in the U.S.<\/p>\n
The hour-long Hippos: A Life Aquatic<\/em> will utilize specialist camera technology and filming techniques to reveal the underwater secrets of the world\u2019s third largest land mammal. The doc was shot by Brad Bestelink and his team at Natural History Film Unit Botswana in the flood waters of Botswana\u2019s Okavango Delta.<\/p>\n Hippos: A Life Aquatic<\/em> is distributed outside the U.K. and U.S. by BBC Studios.<\/p>\n Icon Films\u2019 managing director and co-founder, Laura Marshall, said: \u201cBBC\u2019s Natural World and WNET\u2019s NATURE are great partners to bring this complex and incredibly difficult to film story to the screen. Brad\u2019s technical and creative skills allow this intimate story to be told in exquisite detail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Icon Films and Natural History Film Unit Botswana have been commissioned to produce a documentary about the life of Africa\u2019s Hippopotamus for BBC Two in the U.K. and PBS station WNET in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":11725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[699,1713,3220,146,3221],"class_list":["post-11724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-two","tag-icon-films","tag-natural-history-film-unit-botswana","tag-pbs","tag-wnet","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n