Disneynature

Disneynature is an independent film label of The Walt Disney Company, founded on April 21, 2008 as a division of The Walt Disney Studios. Its releases consist of a series of independent nature documentary films. Headquartered in Paris, it is the only Disney subsidiary not headquartered in the United States.

Background[]

Disney veteran Jean-Francois Camilleri, who has served as senior vice president and general manager for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures France is the head of the new unit. Disneynature is based in France, where Camilleri and his team oversees the initiation, development and acquisition of high quality feature projects.

The first film released domestically under the new label was the American version of Earth, from award-winning British producer/director Alastair Fothergill, whose credits include the landmark Planet Earth series for the BBC and The Discovery Channel and The Blue Planet. Earth, produced by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media and co-directed by Mark Linfield, was released in cinemas internationally in 2007. It premiered in the U.S. on Earth Day, April 22, 2009.

The first new production to be released by Disneynature was announced to be The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos. The world premiere of the film took place in Bordeaux, France on October 26, 2008, and was released internationally throughout 2009.

Disneynature was the official sponsor for the 2009 Epcot Flower and Garden Festival. Footage from Disneynature films are also used in Rivers of Light at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Films[]

Film	Year	Budget	Worldwide Gross	Production Studio	Release Date
Earth	2009	$43,000,000 (estimated)	$108,975,160	Greenlight Media AG BBC Worldwide BBC Natural History Unit Gaumont Discovery Channel NHK	UK November 16, 2007 US April 22, 2009
Oceans	2010	$30,000,000 (estimated)	$82,651,439	France 3 Cinema France 2 Cinema GAGA Participant Media Canal+	UK November 6, 2009 US April 22, 2010
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos	2010			Kudos Pictures Natural Light Films	UK September 25, 2009 US October 19, 2010
African Cats	2011		$30,857,747	Forum Hungary	UK April 20, 2012 US April 22, 2011
Wings of Life	2011			Blacklight Films	FR March 16, 2011 US April 16, 2013
Chimpanzee	2012		$28,972,764	Jane Goodall Institute Blacklight Films	US April 20, 2012
Bears	2014				US April 18, 2014
Monkey Kingdom	2015				US April 17, 2015
L'Empereur	2017			Bonne Pioche Cinéma Paprika Films Wild-Touch Production OCS France 3	France February 15, 2017
Born in China	2017			Shanghai Media Group	US April 21, 2017
Penguins	2019				US April 17, 2019
Diving with Dolphins	2020				US April 3, 2020
Dolphin Reef	2020				US April 3, 2020
Elephant	2020				US April 3, 2020
In the Footsteps of Elephant	2020				US April 3, 2020
Life on the Edge	2020				US April 3, 2020
Polar Bear	2022				US April 22, 2022
Tiger	2024				US April 22, 2024
Sea Lions of the Galapagos	2025				US April 22, 2025

Disneynature logo[]

Disneynature iceberg castle logo, as seen in the beginning of every Disneynature documentary.

The logo of Disneynature is an iceberg that resembles Cinderella Castle, a structure that also serves as the logo for Walt Disney Pictures.

The music for the Disneynature logo was composed by Mark Mancina who recorded his score at the Sony Scoring Stage on March 21, 2008 with the Hollywood Studio Symphony, conducted by Don Harper.

Trivia[]

Earth is the only Disneynature film that is currently missing on Disney+. It is very likely that Disney no longer holds the American distribution rights to the film due to it being an acquisition from BBC Worldwide, who produced the film.

External links[]

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2000s
Earth (2007) • The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (2008) • Oceans (2009)

2010s
African Cats (2011) • Wings of Life (2011) • Chimpanzee (2012) • Bears (2014) • Monkey Kingdom (2015) • Born in China (2017) • Penguins (2019)

2020s
Dolphin Reef (2020) • Elephant (2020) • Polar Bear (2022) • Tiger (2024) • Sea Lions of the Galapagos (2025)

See Also
Disneynature Soundscapes