Dereck Joubert Welcomed as New ASC Member
The cinematographer's credits include Emmy award-winning work for Reflections on Elephants, Great Migrations and Eye of the Leopard.
Botswana-based wildlife filmmaker Dereck Joubert, ASC was born in Johannesburg and earned a degree in ecology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His early work as a wildlife ranger in South African reserves sparked a lasting interest in lion behavior, and he is also an author, conservationist and National Geographic Explorer-at-Large.
His older brother, artist and conservationist Keith Joubert, has been a lifelong inspiration, and AC magazine and the 1980 American Cinematographer Manual proved invaluable resources when he decided to try his hand at filmmaking. With his wife, Beverly, he has co-produced more than 40 films for National Geographic; he serves as writer and cinematographer, she as sound recordist. In 2017, the couple survived a near-fatal Cape buffalo attack in
Botswana’s Okavango Delta.
His credits include Okavango: River of Dreams, Birth of a Pride: Lion Conservation, The Last Lions, Big Cat Odyssey and Eye of the Leopard.
He won a Primetime Emmy for Reflections on Elephants and News & Documentary Emmys (shared with several collaborators) for Great Migrations and Eye of the Leopard.
Find his website here and his Instagram
View the current ASC membership roster here.
