Neil Rettig Productions

07/31/2023

Neil spent a month in the Arctic last summer helping capture images to educate and inspire people to protect this fragile, unique and incredibly important ecosystem. Please watch and share with others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4rkeFr98Ds

06/17/2023

We're so happy to have been on the team telling this remarkable man's story. Check out the premiere of "The Extraordinary Birder" on National Geographic June 17 and Disney Plus later in the month!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7WcXccl0Q
https://www.disneyplusinformer.com/national-geographics-extraordinary-birder-release-date-announced/

04/29/2023

Here is Neil's footage of the gosling jump from below the nest - a true drama of the natural world.

04/29/2023

Neil was privileged to help film the remarkable leap of faith by the goslings who were hatched in the Decorah eagle nest. While RRP nest cam operators captured the footage from the nest, Neil waited below while the goslings gathered their courage and was able to follow them to the ground where five out of the six were united with their parents and took their first swim.

01/14/2023

Canadian friends, catch "Rat City" on "The Nature of Things" tonight! Everyone else, watch for the international version, coming soon.
https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/rat-city
https://www.youtube.com/

Welcome to RAT CITY.Reviled for millennia, the Brown rat is one of the most familiar creatures on the planet – but perhaps the least understood. We know more...

10/28/2022

North America's smallest falcons were at it again this spring on Bird Cams! Watch the best nuggets from the American Kestrel nest box as the adults worked around the clock to raise four wily nestlings from hatch to fledge in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

Thanks to our partners at the Raptor Resource Project for helping us share another season with these pint-sized (and loud!) birds of prey.

09/30/2022

"Wings Over Water", the IMAX film we worked on for several years, had a great night at the Giant Screen Cinema Association/IMAX annual award ceremony last night. It was awarded won Best Short Film, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Lifetime Learning awards. We're proud to have been involved in this important conservation story and loved working with its wonderful crew. Watch it at an IMAX theater near you - seeing it on a big screen in 3D is an experience!
https://wingsoverwaterfilm.com/

https://wingsoverwaterfilm.com/videos

09/26/2022

Great Lakes Untamed, a series we worked on extensively, airs tonight on TVO for our Canadian friends! And those of us elsewhere can view it starting October 12 on Smithsonian Channel. https://www.meritmotionpictures.com/in-production/great-lakes-untamed

Check out the teaser here:

https://vimeo.com/740832442

A spectacular visual exploration of the natural history of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth - North America’s Great Lakes.

08/25/2022

After a month spent working in the Alaskan arctic this summer, Neil is now filming much closer to home. He’s capturing prairie flowers and their pollinators in our own tall grass prairie that’s right outside our door. But you don’t need 45 acres of pollinator plants to provide food and habitat for these beauties - even in a small yard you can plant a few wildflower seeds and keep an area that isn’t mowed.

06/15/2022

If you haven’t been watching our kestrel cam run by Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Raptor Resource Project it’s time to tune in! The 4 chicks will fledge in about a week and they are getting rambunctious. We have 4 boys this year - no wonder mom and dad don’t stay long when they bring food!

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/american-kestrels/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xYHJvr4t_fc

Watch the drama ensue as siblings compete for bites of a lunchtime prey delivery by mom. Now that the nestlings' juvenile plumages have really started to sho...

06/10/2022

America the Beautiful starts streaming on July 4. Neil filmed some of his favorite subjects for this series, including bald eagles, snow geese and voles.

Explore the stunning spaces that define America’s beauty. America the Beautiful, an Original Series from National Geographic, is streaming in 2022 on Disney+...