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00:00 01 April 2008

2008 Excellence in Media Award for Global Health: Broadcast, TV and New Media

Rockhopper TV wins the 2008 Excellence in Media Award for Global Health: Category - Broadcast, TV and New Media for the documentary “A Sporting Chance.”

The award from the Global Health Council is given for Global Health Excellence in Media each year to a journalist (print, electronic, or visual) who has in the prior year most effectively captured the essence of a major issue in global health and conveyed it to a broad audience.

"A Sporting Chance" told the story of Sudanese girls living in a Kenyan refugee camp and the resistance they met when the formed a volley ball team.

• Posted by Richard Wilson

00:00 20 December 2007

BBC World News "2007 Documentary of the Year"

For the second year running Rockhopper TV has won the BBC World 'Best Documentary of the Year' in a worldwide viewer poll. Rockhopper collected nearly 48% of the vote for "Kill or Cure?: India's Black Fever".

The film was set in the state of Bihar, India, and featured the work of the California's OneWorld Health which has been working with local doctors and scientists to develop and bring to market a cost-effective drug to treat this most neglected of diseases that blights millions of lives.

• Posted by Richard Wilson

00:00 01 December 2007

Rockhopper returns to Antarctica

Rockhopper is back in Antarctica filming at the historic WWII Port Lockroy base, which is becoming Antarctica's most popular tourist attraction.  

It's our 6th visit to the sub-continent and we're combining our own archive footage of Port Lockroy with 1940's footage owned by the British Antarctic Survey to tell the base's history.  It was built as a top-secret British operation during World War II, converted to science research in the 1950s and 60s, and is now run by the British Antarctic Heritage Trust.  

You can buy a DVD of the film by visiting Port Lockroy - or view it on-line here (for free).

• Posted by Richard Wilson