Sophie Morgan

filmmaker, zoologist, tech diver

Mililani Town, US

film documentary underwater wildlife
About

Sophie Morgan is an esteemed natural history TV producer and field director that has worked on a variety of award winning wildlife programmes. Before moving to the US, she spent over a decade as a key member of Bristol’s wildlife filmmaking community. Recent credits include BAFTA and EMMY award winning/nominated series BBC Blue Planet II and National Geographic's Hostile Planet. She most recently produced and directed the BAFTA-nominated playful ‘Tiny World – Reef’ for Apple TV+, narrated by Paul Rudd and on an upcoming Oceans series for Netflix. She has also developed and assisted on a wide variety of presenter-led series (BBC Natural World, River Monsters for Animal Planet; National Geographic’s Survive the Tribe; BBC Talk to the Animals; Channel 4’s Operation Maneater). She is currently producing on two cause-based feature-length documentaries with Sound Off Films. With a BSc in Zoology and hundreds of hours spent underwater as a professional scuba diver, she has huge knowledge of the natural world, and comes with vast experience of managing crews and talent in challenging outdoor environments. One of the UK organisers of the international ‘March for Science’, Sophie is a keen science activist, who is passionate about the pursuit of knowledge and proper representation of the facts in the media. She is proudly neurodiverse.