Biography
Peter von Puttkamer has executive produced, written, directed, photographed & edited dozens of international award-winning documentaries, docudramas, reality TV series and specials worldwide over the last 40 years. His production company, Gryphon Productions Ltd. has created factual programming for Discovery Channel US, Animal Planet US, History Channel, BBC, CBC, National Geographic, Sony Pictures/Columbia Tri-Star, Discovery Channel Canada, ITV, TLC, PBS, etc. These programs, created by, directed/produced by Peter, have won more than 80 international awards.
Creatively, whether working on heart-felt personal stories, historical, crime, sociopolitical issues, scientific, ethnographic, wildlife, environmental or broad adventure-based entertainment documentaries, von Puttkamer is able to combine high quality filmmaking, cinematic expertise with great storytelling and viewer grabbing programming. Peter is a 4-time Emmy Judge and Jackson Wild Media Festival Judge. He has been featured 4 times (2006-2020) in the prestigious American Cinematographer (Hollywood) Magazine- Journal of the ASC- American Society of Cinematographers. In 2020, he was recognized by Fujifilm Corporation on their 2020 Testimonial Series Poster and in social media worldwide. Peter was just named a Fellow of the prestigious Explorer's Club in New York. Recently Peter has been Directing and Exec producing a number of new films as the Head of Creative Content for a new streamer - Ecoflix. And has Produced/Directed Feature Documentary programs for the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
