It was a big win for all of Vancouver Island at the 2023 Daytime Emmys!
Amid the talk shows, soap operas and reality shows, a locally-made, hit nature series starring the Vancouver Island’s famous sea wolves brought four Emmys home to the island.
This is all due to the work of renowned nature cinematographer, Maxwel Hohn.
Hohn is based out of Comox Valley and he took home the Emmy for best cinematography for his work on Island of the Sea Wolves.
The three-part docu-series which follows the sea wolves through the seasons was nominated for a total of seven Emmys and was successful in winning four of them.
Aside from the outstanding cinematography category win that Hohn took home, it also won outstanding single camera editing, outstanding sound mixing and outstanding writing team for a daytime non-fiction program.
“It’s an absolute dream come true,” Hohn said in a statement about his win.
“It was an incredible team to be part of and having the opportunity to spend almost a year filming wildlife that surrounds my home on Vancouver Island was an amazing experience that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”
“A huge thank you to the team at River Road Films and Wild Space Productions for bringing me onto the series and a massive congratulations to the entire team for their hard work and dedication,” he added.
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Island of the Sea Wolves was shot in 2021 and Hohn says he was lucky enough to get the opportunity because during the pandemic, the film crews that would normally get this contract were unable to travel.
Because Hohn already has a reputation for shooting some of the curiosities of Vancouver Island’s vast and diverse ecosystems, he was selected for this job. The perfect example of this is Hohn’s award-winning Tadpoles: The Big Little Migration.
Since he worked on this sea wolf-centric series, Hohn has also gotten to add some more feathers to his cap by filming for Our Planet II, released on Netflix June 14th 2023; Secrets of the Octopus, coming to Disney on Earth Day, 2024; and Shared Planet, coming to CBC in 2025.
