The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is delighted to announce finalists in the Peer-judged Craft and Program Categories of its Film Competition. Internationally renowned as the largest and most prestigious competition of the nature genre, this year's Festival competition included 510 films from more than 30 countries entering 800 categories-a record number of submissions competing for 22 special category awards. More than ninety judges from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa participated in the preliminary selections.

Finalists for Content and Program Categories were announced August 1st. The 2011 award winners will be selected by a distinguished panel in Jackson Hole preceding the five-day industry conference held in Grand Teton Park at the Jackson Lake Lodge October 3-7, and will be announced at a Gala celebration on Thursday, October 6th. 

BEST CHILDREN'S PROGRAM

MY PANTANAL

Panthera

THE RIDDLE SOLVERS: THE SHARK RIDDLE 

Sisbro Studios & The Save Our Seas Foundation

TURTLE VISION

nWave Pictures Distribution   

BEST EARTH SCIENCES PROGRAM (sponsored by Marco Polo)

HAITI'S KILLER QUAKE: WHY IT HAPPENED
Pioneer Productions & Discovery Channel

ICELANDIC VOLCANOES: WHO IS NEXT?

Saint Thomas Productions

INTO ICELAND'S VOLCANO
Scandinature Films USA, Profilm & National Geographic Channels

SEA REX 3D: JOURNEY TO A PREHISTORIC WORLD

N3D Land Productions & Mantello Brothers Productions

CONSERVATION HERO

AFRICA'S LOST EDEN

National Geographic Television

BRAVING IRAQ

Aqua Vita Films, Nature for WNET New York Public Media & BBC

ELSA: THE LIONESS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Brian Leith Productions, BBC & Nature for WNET New York Public Media

THE MAN WHO STOPPED THE DESERT

1080 Films   

BEST INTERACTIVE/NEW MEDIA PROGRAM (sponsored by ARKive) 

ONE OCEAN INTERACTIVE www.oneoceanonline.org

Merit Motion Pictures & Tactica Interactive for CBC & The Nature of Things

WILD KRATTS: WHALE OF A SQUID www.pbskids.org/wildkratts

Kratt Brothers Company Ltd. & 9 Story Entertainment Inc.

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU REALLY ARE? www.nhm.ac.uk

Natural History Museum, BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Research & Development, TraceMedia, Shadow Industries, IVC, Melford Electronics Ltd.,Pentagram, Cultural Innovation, & Wellcome Trust   

BEST LIMITED SERIES (sponsored by Terra Mater Factual Studios)

HUMAN PLANET

BBC, Discovery Channel, France Televisions and BBC Worldwide

LIFE

BBC, Discovery Channel, SKAI, Open University and BBC Worldwide

LIFE FORCE

NHK, NHNZ and France Televisions

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (sponsored by FujiFilm Optical Devices) 

AFRICAN CATS

Disneynature
Owen Newman & Sophie Darlington, Principal Camera; Simon Werry, Aerial Camera; Simon King Specialist Camera

LIFE: CHALLENGES OF LIFE

BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery Channel, Open University, SKAI & BBC Worldwide; Rod Clarke, Kevin Flay, Alastair MacEwen, Peter Nearhos, Simon Werry, and David Wright

HUMAN PLANET: ARCTIC, LIFE IN THE DEEP FREEZE

BBC, Discovery Channel, France Televisions and BBC Worldwide
Matt Norman, Doug Allan, and William Edwards

MY LIFE AS A TURKEY

Passion Pictures, Nature for WNET New York Public Media & BBC

Mark Smith & David Allen, Principal Camera; Jeff Palmer, Additional Photography   

BEST EDITING 

MY LIFE AS A TURKEY

Passion Pictures, Nature for WNET New York Public Media & BBC

Darren Flaxstone, Editor

THE LAST LIONS

Wildlife Films and National Geographic

Susan Scott & Candice Odgers, Editors

THE TRAPPER & THE AMAZON

Triosphere and Animal Planet

Katherine Pienaar, Editor   

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE (sponsored by Sony Electronics)

WINGS OF LIFE 

Disneynature and Blacklight Films

Jan Holzner & Music by Bliss

THE LAST LIONS
Wildlife Films and National Geographic

Alex Wurman

LIFE ON FIRE: PIONEERS OF THE DEEP

St. Thomas Production Jacky Hanouna

BEST SOUND (sponsored by Dolby Laboratries) 

FOREST ELEPHANTS: A RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide & Animal Planet

LIFE: PLANTS

BBC, Discovery Channel, SKAI, Open University & BBC Worldwide

Life Production Team; Tim Owens, Sound Editor; Chris Domaille, Mixer

LIFE ON FIRE: ASH RUNNERS

Saint Thomas Productions

Raphael Andrieu, Sound Editor; Florent Fournier-Sicre, Mixer

SERENGETI
Studio Hamburg DocLights /NDR Naturfilm, Universum Film, & Intervista

Jörn Röver, Reinhard Radke, Sound Mix / Sound Design: Richard Borowski, Kai Storck, Carsten Richter

BEST WRITING 

BUTTERFLIES: A VERY BRITISH OBSESSION

BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide

Simon Bell

HUMAN PLANET: ARCTIC, LIFE IN THE DEEP FREEZE

BBC, Discovery Channel, France Televisions and BBC Worldwide

Nicholas Brown

LIFE ON FIRE: PIONEERS OF THE DEEP

St. Thomas Productions

Bertrand Loyer & Jo Stewart Smith

MY LIFE AS A TURKEY

Passion Pictures, Nature for WNET New York Public Media & BBC

Joe Hutto