Our best-selling “Beauty… for Survival” is now available as a DVD. The film was originally released on VHS in 1995, and was the first in our still growing series of butterflies filmed in the wild, under the title "The World’s Butterflies" .

It was a very suitable start to the series as it brought together footage on 16mm film (Kodachrome) shot over the previous 20 years in no less than 11 countries.

Try it for a 45 minute world tour of some of the most gorgeous butterflies!

Our 3-week mission to Madagascar in November 2007, with a group from Florida, was a big learning experience. As a warning to others who may suffer the same difficulties, here are the lessons we learnt.

As with all our films, the DVD format is “region-free” ie suitable for all parts of the world, including the USA.

Latest from the 2007 Missoula International Wildlife Film festival in Montana
“O Que Pasa? What’s Going On Here?” - our 2006 production on the butterflies of the Rio Cristalino Reserve in Brazil – won a Merit Award for Presentation of Information.

“The Final Judges were very judicious and gave a great deal of critical analysis to every entry this year, viewing 115 Finalists,” said the Festival Director in announcing the result. To receive a Merit Award is very meaningful and you should feel very proud.”

This is the 5th Award won by Cinebutterflies films -

• In 1998 “Puzzles of the Past: probing the history of Europe’s butterflies” won a Scientific Content Award
• in 2002 “Palawan…Butterfly Paradise” won both a Scientific and an Educational Award.
• In 2005 “Butterflies of Kenya” also won a Scientific Award

The Cristalino Lodge owner, Dona Vitoria, reports that almost all the visitors to the Lodge now see the DVD “O Que Pasa? What’s Going On Here?” and are amazed at the amount of information it offers, as well as showing the beauty of the rainforest there.

We - Pat and I, that is – were in India in October –November 2006, filming the butterflies and also the high mountains, especially Kanchenjunga and Narsing.

Ian Johnson at Pemberely Books has taken over as our main distributor. and all our films can be found at his excellent website www.pembooks.demon.co.uk.

You can mail him at ian.johnson@pemberleybooks.com, and his address is:

18 Bathurst Walk,
Iver,
Bucks, SL0 9AZ
United Kingdom

“The Butterflies of Kenya” won an Honourable Mention for its Scientific Content at the 28th Festival.