Career
He is best known for his work with the British Broadcasting Corporation Natural History Unit as a producer of two episodes of the television series (2006) and as writer and co-director of the associated feature film. After training as a zoologist, Mark Linfield began his career at the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1990, working on a documentary on gorillas in the Congo. The resulting film, "Journey to the Dark Heart", contained the first footage of western lowland gorillas in the wild.
He left to join the Bristol-based independent production company Green Umbrella, where his credits include "The Temple Troop" and "Orang-utans: The High Society", both shown as part of British Broadcasting Corporation Two"s strand.
The latter programme featured the first footage of wild orang-utans using tools. He also co-produced Triumph of Life, a series on evolution, which was screened on Public Broadcasting Service in 2000.
He re-joined the British Broadcasting Corporation Natural History Unit in 2000 in order to continue working on high-end productions, beginning with David Attenborough"s The Life of Mammals. This was followed by an award-winning documentary for, "Capuchins: The Monkey Puzzle".
He joined Alastair Fothergill"s team working on and took on responsibility for the episodes "From Pole to Pole" and "Seasonal Forests".
Linfield is currently working on two collaborations with Fothergill: The Frozen Planet, the follow-up series to, and Chimpanzee, a Disneynature feature film.
