About Us
Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit are writers and documentary filmmakers based near Sidney, British Columbia. They specialize in telling stories of the relationships between people and our natural world.

In 2004, they came to Gold River, Nootka Sound, to cover the story of Luna for Smithsonian magazine. They planned to stay for three weeks. They stayed for three years. They are now writing a book and producing a feature documentary about Luna.

Michael was the script writer for the IMAX film Ocean Oasis, which premiered at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in September, 2000, and was awarded Best of Category at the 2001 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, and a Panda Award at Wildscreen 2002. He was the final author of the narration script for the IMAX/ OMNIMAX film Antarctica.

He also co-wrote the script for Under Antarctic Ice, a WNET/Nature production, which premiered on PBS in January, 2003. He is the author of four books and numerous articles for National Geographic and Smithsonian magazines.

Suzanne has produced, filmed, and written news stories and documentaries in Europe, South America, Africa, Australia, the South Pacific and throughout North America. She received a Bachelor of Arts in economics and history from University of Toronto, and a Master of Development Economics from Dalhousie University.

She taught English in Prague in the early 1990s, and did her graduate thesis research in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Since 1995 she has been working on various projects for National Geographic magazine and the National Geographic Channel-US.

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