James W Griffiths Channels His Inner Jane Goodall for Google Maps

Indy8 is proud to announce that James W Griffiths has been nominated for Best New Director at the BTAA Craft Awards. James has been recognised for his film “Rufus, The Real Hawk Eye” for Stella Artois and Mother. James’s latest film launched on YouTube this week and already has over 700k hits. It is for the launch of Google Maps in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. James went to Tanzania with a micro crew of just him and a DP as well as the street view photographer and spent 5 days in the park to make this breathtaking film. 

In 1960, when famed primatologist Jane Goodall first stepped foot into what is now Gombe National Park in Tanzania, she was immediately awed by the wonder and beauty of the place. “I found myself thinking, ‘This is where I belong,’” Goodall said. “Together the chimpanzees, and the baboons and the monkeys, the birds and insects, the teeming life of the vibrant forest, the stirrings of the never-still waters of the great lake formed one whole.”

It’s been a pretty good year for James, at the end of last year he picked up the Best Branded Content Award at the Shots Awards and then followed that up with receiving the BAFTA for Best British Short (both for Room 8 sponsored by Bombay Sapphire) and he has directed a number of projects for Mother for Stella.