Tim Green - (Producer, Director, Sound Recordist and lots of other bits and pieces)

Tim was born in a thick fog in the great winter of 1974. He grew up a simple country boy in the badlands of south Warwickshire. At the conventional age of 22 he graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Zoology and followed the well trodden path round the corner to the BBC Natural History Unit for a career in wildlife film-making.

Over the past ten years, Tim’s career highlights have been working with Sir David Attenborough on his creepy crawly epic, “Life in the Undergrowth” and producing “Hawai‘i – Message in the Waves”.

Tim says “ I look back on some of the films I have worked on with a certain degree of pride but the Hawai‘i film is special as I feel it could actually make a difference – providing enough people watch it!”

Rebecca Hosking (Camerawoman / Producer)

Rebecca graduated from Napier University, Edinburgh with a first class honours degree in photography, film and television. In 2000 she received a 2-year bursary at the BBC Natural History Unit to train in wildlife cinematography. She was selected from over 7000 applicants and was the first and only woman to be awarded the position.

Since 2002 she has worked as a freelance Director/Cameraman in locations across the world including North & Central America, China, Asia, Europe, Australia and the Pacific Islands region.

Rebecca says “I hope people realize that this film isn’t just about Hawai‘i, it is about everywhere. Iokepa’s message is simple – our planet is like an island. It has a limited amount of resources to support life. An expanding human population living with little regard for the future is stretching those resources to breaking point. To be an environmental thinker is to be a humanist. If we want our species to continue then we have to look after the environment, otherwise it’s all of us who will be paying the price. But when Iokepa says it, it sounds a lot better.”

 

Andrew Murray (Senior Producer)

Andrew has worked for the BBC’s Natural History Unit for over ten years, producing award winning documentaries from all corners of the globe. On a recent production ‘Galapagos’ for BBC and National Geographic he became increasingly aware of the dangers of unsustainable living and development and was instrumental in getting the BBC documentary ‘Lonesome George and the battle for Galapagos’ commissioned for BBC. Embarking with Tim and Rebecca on another project in the vast Pacific further confirmed the fact that nowhere escapes the effects of our modern way of life and brought on a strong realisation that the message in the waves needed to be read out loud. (And a small start to realising his own Kuleana).

 

Bali Strickland (Cameraman)

Bali Strickland began producing surf films in early 2001, now aged 26 he has 4 surf films to his credit including winner of best cinematography “Framelines”. Since releasing his last film “The Free Way” Bali has focused on freelance camera work, specializing in all types of underwater cinematography. Considered among the best underwater surf cameramen in the world, Bali is now focusing on more mainstream styles of cinematography including recent work for the BBC’s Natural History Unit.

Musicians

A special thank you to the musicians who gave permission to use their music in, "Message in the Waves". Their credits are listed below:

Christopher Candito and Abe Vandenberg from Nomadic Profusion- "Mother Ocean", "Flyin' Away" and original music for the film (produced by abeslogic).

Beautiful Girls -Morning Sun, "a million miles", "morning sun", "first signs of trouble," both tracks were part of the film soundtrack.

Ballad of Miss Kate - Matt Costa, "songs we sing"

Xavier Rudd Records - Solace, "Shelter"

Jack Johnson,"3R's" Jack Johnson also appeared in the film while being interviewed at his Kokua festival in Oahu, Hawaii.

Vitus Mix- "St. Patrick" by James Yorkston "St. Patrick" was also a track in the film.