Ian McCarthy The filmmakers had to endure arduous conditions during the three years it took to film The Eagle Odyssey Zoom In

Most successful and acclaimed RSPB film ever made

25-01-2005

Already a winner of several industry awards, a film by the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) has become the greatest success in their long history of wildlife film-making.

The Eagle Odyssey charts the struggles of the UK's largest breeding bird of prey, the White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla.

Against worldwide competition the film won the award for Best Script at the largest and most prestigious natural history film festival in the world, Wildscreen, held in Bristol in October 2004.

More recently, the film has also scooped the Grand Prix Best Film Award at the world's premier ornithological film festival, held each year at Menigoute in France, and two more awards at the Valvert European Wildlife Film Festival in Belgium (Most Popular Film and Best Story).

"Being judged favourably by your peers is the biggest compliment. It makes all the hard work and painful memories of missed opportunities worthwhile." —Mark Percival, Head of RSPB Film Unit

Its four awards at three festivals, plus a deal with the BBC and good sales of video and DVD copies, makes The Eagle Odyssey the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful RSPB film ever made.