Ted Oakes is a Canadian-born filmmaker and biologist who worked at the

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for 20 years. He founded Oak Island Films in 2017 and has been managing director since. He has collaborated with

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and Merit Motion Pictures.

Education

Oakes completed his MSc. in biology, at Queen's University, Canada in 1989 and a PhD. in zoology at

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, UK in 1996

Film career

Honours, Awards & Nominations

Honours

*Front Cover

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for Operation Snow Tiger 2013,

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*2021 Fellow of the

Royal Canadian Geographical Society The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS; French: ''Société géographique royale du Canada'') is a Canadian nonprofit educational organization. It has dedicated itself to spreading a broader knowledge and deeper appreciation of Canada, i ...

Awards and nominations

Writing career

*2003 Monsters We Met —

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*2009

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—

Mentoring

Oakes has been a mentor for

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since 2023 and he has mentored Youth Ambassadors through the Ocean Pathways placement programs at Ocean Wise since 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oakes, Ted Wildlife biologists Canadian documentary film directors 21st-century Canadian biologists Queen's University at Kingston alumni Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford BBC television presenters Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian documentary film producers