Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael John Slee BA (Hons) (born 23 August 1959, Windlesham, Surrey) is a British television documentary producer/director, film-maker and writer. Slee studied Art & Design at Kingston University, and graduated with a first class honours degree from the London College of Printing in Photography, Film and TV. He first achieved industry recognition for directing James Burke, in the 1989 ACE Award-winning PBS documentary series After the Warming. This prescient series dealt with the issue of global warming, using virtual reality computer simulations. Slee then directed a 20-part TLC series with Burke, called Connections 2. By 1997 he was at the forefront of large screen IMAX film making, co-devising and directing Wildfire - Feel the Heat for the Discovery Channel, and The Legend of Loch Lomond for the Strathclyde European Partnership. In 2003 he co-wrote and directed BUGS 3D!, a $9 million IMAX 3D natural history drama, narrated by Judi Dench. The film was a semi-finalist at the 2004 Oscars, and was awarded the GSTA Lifelong Learning Honor in the same year. Slee directed the 2005 British television programme, The Gunpowder Plot: Explod…
Directed
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Colombia: Wild Magic (2015) — Director
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MegaStructures (2004) — Director
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Flight of the Butterflies (2012) — Director
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Bugs! (2003) — Director
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The Great Martian War 1913–1917 (2013) — Director
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Fungi: The Web of Life (2023) — Director
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Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins (2008) — Director
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Drain The Ocean: WWII (2016) — Director
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How to Build a Planet (2013) — Director
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Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections (2008) — Director
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Wild Africa (2015) — Director
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The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend (2005) — Director
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Amazon Adventure (2017) — Director
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Wildfire: Feel the Heat (1999) — Director
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Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch (2002) — Director
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The secret life of Primates (2009) — Director
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Robots (2015) — Director
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Wild Africa / Tiny Giants (2016) — Director
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Voyages Of Discovery (2006) — Director