Biografia
Elliott Haimoff (born 1955 in Los Angeles, CA) is a biologist, primatologist, and documentary filmmaker.
In 1990, he established Global Science Productions to create and distribute educational TV programs and news segments covering space, biology, health, sports, and nature.
During the mid-1970s, Haimoff led a research team on an expedition to record and transmit real-time video of endangered primates, pioneering the use of early video technology to study human and animal behavior.
He earned his Ph.D. in Biology from Cambridge University (Pembroke College), England. Dr. Robert Martin, a renowned author, evolutionary biologist, and curator at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, served as his doctoral thesis examiner.
Returning to the U.S., Haimoff conducted groundbreaking research at UCLA as a Research Professor in Biology throughout the mid to late 1980s, focusing on preserving the gibbon ape, a primate nearing extinction. The Chinese government invited him to assess remote forest regions to designate wildlife protection reserves. His numerous articles on primate conservation, behavior, evolution, and ecology have been published worldwide in scientific journals.
In the late 1980s, Haimoff joined KCET, the Los Angeles PBS station, as a producer in the Science and Society Unit led by Roger Bingham. He produced science segments on topics including medicine, conservation, global climate change, cosmic background radiation, black holes, dark matter, quasars, DNA fingerprinting, and genome-sequencing technology. The unit won two Los Angeles Emmy Awards in 1989 and 1990 from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for excellence in local programming.
In 1990, Haimoff founded Global Science Productions, his independent documentary company. Its films about NASA missions such as "Apollo 13: The Untold Story" and "Moonwalkers: The Men of Apollo," as well as sports programs like "33STR8: The Greatest Record in Pro Sports History" and "Game Changer: The Dennis Murphy Story," have been featured in major outlets including Variety, Billboard, and TV Guide over three decades. His space exploration documentaries highlighting female astronauts, including "Dr. Sally Ride: Space Pioneer" and "Women Space Pioneers" about Judy Resnik, were reviewed by The Citizen (Houston's Cape Canaveral newspaper) during the 10-year Challenger disaster memorial and highlighted by the Los Angeles Times in "Space Frontiers: The Moon, Mars and Beyond."
Many full-length documentaries in Global Science Productions’ catalog address controversial societal issues such as stem cell therapy, regenerative medicine, human cloning, genetic modification of crops, veterinary stem-cell treatments, humanity’s future in space, and upcoming manned missions to Mars.
Kristi Hauta from San Diego-based VetStem Biopharma praised Haimoff’s 2019 documentary "Animal Pharm: Where Beasts Meet Biotech," stating it "...provides a great service to the public by offering legitimate education about cell therapy in veterinary medicine and its contributions to human stem cell therapy." The film won Best Nature and Animals Film at the Brentwood and Pacific Palisades International Film Festival.
The space magazine Final Frontier described Global Science Productions as "far and away the leader in space exploration programs." The Einstein Channel satellite network aired hundreds of its episodes on NASA’s early space race, premiering alongside the network's launch.
Currently, Haimoff is developing various sports and medical full-length documentaries for international television markets.
