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  • BBG Productions is an independent Central Florida-based film production company specializing in environmental issues. The filmmakers behind it are:


Bob Giguere

Bob is an Emmy-winning executive producer at WMFE-TV in Orlando with a long and successful track record of producing television documentaries in Maine and Florida. He has won Emmys for several of his projects, some of which were distributed nationally. He is also an underwater cinematographer and did much of the underwater shooting for “Wekiva: Legacy or Loss?” Bob has also worked contractually for National Geographic Explorer, shooting on deep water reefs off the Florida Keys and inside the Aquarius undersea habitat maintained by NOAA there.

Email Addresses:

bgiguere1@earthlink.net


Bill Belleville

Bill is an award-winning environmental writer with 1,500 national magazine by-lines. He has also scripted NPR documentaries, consulted for an A&E program on the sunken city of Port Royal, Jamaica, and been a member of scientific Discovery Channel expeditions in the Dominican Republic, the Galapagos Islands, and Cuba.  As a team, Bill and Bob won national "Telly" awards for "In Search of Xanadu” and “Conch Cowboys,” both of which were distributed state-wide via the Florida Crossroads series. Bill’s non-fiction book, “River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida’s St. Johns River”, now in its third printing, was the inspiration for “Wekiva: Legacy or Loss?” In addition to scripting the documentary, he also served as safety diver.

Email Address:

billybx@gate.net


• Folks who appeared in the documentary (or provided valuable background), include:

Thomas H. Eason

Bear Management Section Leader

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Tallahassee, Fla.

Email Address:

easont@fwc.state.fl.us


Parks Small

Biologist (bird banding)

Wekiva Basin GEOpark

Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection

Apopka, Fla.

Email Address:

Parks.small@dep.state.fl.us


Brian Emanuel

Biologist

Wekiva Basin GEOpark,

Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection

Apopka, Fla.

Email Address:

Brian.Emanuel@dep.state.fl.us


Deborah Shelley

Manager (Biologist)

Wekiva River Aquatic Preserve

Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection

Sanford, Fla.

Email Addresses:

Dshelley@gate.net

Dshelley@cde.com


Mary E. Brabham

Project Manager (Engineer)

Little Wekiva River erosion and flood control

St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD)

Orlando, Fla.

Email Address:

Mary_brabham@district.sjrwmd.state.fl.us


Dr. Fred Thompson

Malacologist

Florida Museum of Natural History

Gainesville, Fla.

(Dr. Thompson is describing five new endemic snails found in five separate spring runs of springs feeding the Blackwater Creek, a tributary of the Wekiva.)

Email Address:

FGT@FLMNH.UFL.EDU


Terrance Tysall

Director

Cambrian Foundation

Winter Park, Fla.

(Cambrian is a non-profit foundation dedicated to research, education, preservation & exploration of the Aquatic Realm. Cambrian technical divers are currently working to explore and map Wekiwa Springs and Rock Springs.)  Visit the Cambrian web site via our “Valuable Links”.


Dr. Bruce Stephenson

Professor

Environmental Studies

Rollins College,

Winter Park, Fla.

Email Address:

Bstephenson@rollins.edu


Patricia Harden

Ex-officio, SJRWMD Board of Trustees,

Co-founder, Friends of Wekiva River, Inc.

Sanford, Fla.

Email Address:

Pat4fla@aol.com