Altitude Media Group has launched a new division, Altitude Factual, led by the veteran natural-history and factual programming executive Paul Sowerbutts.<\/p>\n
The former managing director of Channel 4 international and diverse productions will now serve as managing director of Altitude Factual. Sowerbutts brings with him a wealth of experience on projects such as Touching the Void<\/em> and Bear Grylls: Man vs Wild<\/em>. He is also currently executive producing Otto Bell\u2019s forthcoming feature The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sowerbutts is joined by Jeremy Bradshaw (In the Wild<\/em>, Saving Planet Earth<\/em>), founder of Tigress Productions, as head of natural history.<\/p>\n Altitude Factual will create long-running television series and feature-length documentaries focusing on the natural and human worlds, with strong family appeal.<\/p>\n The launch of Altitude Factual follows 30WEST\u2019s investment in Altitude Media Group and the studio\u2019s production partnership with L.A.-based Soluble Fish Productions.<\/p>\n Sowerbutts said, \u201cOur joint experience covers the whole world of natural history and factual programming and film-making and we are thrilled to launch Altitude Factual with a focus on series where animals and humans interconnect, as well as developing more feature documentaries and specials where we have been previously successful. Jeremy and I have hit the ground running and have already traveled to Africa and Asia to meet some amazing people for a number of incredible projects already in development.\u201d<\/p>\n Will Clarke, chairman and co-CEO of Altitude Film Entertainment, said, \u201cWe\u2019re very excited to continue to grow Altitude with the launch of Altitude Factual, expanding into a new area for the company with universal evergreen popularity. Paul and Jeremy are hugely respected and experienced in the field of natural history television and film, and there is a strong demand from global platforms and broadcasters for this type of programming that we\u2019re excited to engage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Altitude Media Group has launched a new division, Altitude Factual, led by the veteran natural-history and factual programming executive Paul Sowerbutts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":14213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4769,4770,4771],"class_list":["post-14212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-altitude-factual","tag-altitude-media-group","tag-paul-sowerbutts","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n