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Chris Terrill is a British anthropologist, adventurer, author and filmmaker. ==Biography== Born in Brighton, Sussex in 1952, Terrill attended Brighton College 1965–1970, and then went to Durham University, where he gained a joint-honours degree in Geography and Anthropology. Between 1976 and 1977 he lived with the remote Acholi Tribe of Southern Sudan where he carried out doctoral research on the impact of civil war on the tribal society〔''The Creation of the Acholi Minority, Their Dispersal as Refugees and Their Repatriation (1956–1972)'', Durham University Geography Department: 1978.〕 before taking up the post of Head of Geography at Rendcomb College in Gloucestershire. In 1983, he left teaching to become a full-time professional anthropologist working for the International Disaster Institute and the UN in Geneva and throughout the famine gripped and war ravaged areas of Africa.〔"The Second International Conference on Assistance to Refugees in Africa". ''Disasters''. Vol 8, issue 4, December 1984.〕〔"Rural Refugees in Africa: Past Experience, Future Pointers". R Chambers. ''Disasters''. Vol 6, issue 1, March 1982.〕 Later, and quite by accident, he moved into broadcasting when he went to give an interview to the BBC African Service and was offered a job on the spot. He changed careers and became a producer for the BBC World Service specialising in African affairs. After five years in radio, in which he specialised in current affairs, documentaries and drama, Terrill joined BBC television as a documentary producer, making investigative documentaries and observational films and series about communities all over the world. As a programme maker, Terrill has always favoured anthropological methodology, particularly participant observation,〔Participant observation—a type of research strategy. It is a widely used methodology in many disciplines, particularly, cultural anthropology, but also sociology, communication studies, and social psychology. Its aim is to gain a close and intimate familiarity with a given group of individuals (such as a religious, occupational, or sub cultural group, or a particular community) and their practices through an intensive involvement with people in their natural environment, usually over an extended period of time.〕 rather than more conventional documentary making techniques. As a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Geographical Society, Terrill is regarded as a practising anthropologist/geographer who uses film as his primary research tool and recording medium in the field.〔Anthropologist About Town (Royal Anthropological Institute): ''Going Commando''. 20 September 2007〕〔''Commando''. Chris Terrill, Random House, 2007.〕 He won an Emmy for ''outstanding investigative journalism'' for a film called ''Ape Trade''.〔International Primate Protection League, Vol. 18, No. 2, Aug 1991: ''BBC Exposes Ape Trade''〕 This ''Inside Story Special'' (BBC1) exposed the major gangs smuggling endangered orangutans to illegal markets in Taiwan, the USA and Russia.〔To achieve this Terrill went undercover as a wildlife smuggler. In a later film called Women Trade, that exposed criminal gangs trading in women from the developing world for the sex market in Europe, Terrill posed as a woman trader in the Dominican Republic as well as in Denmark and Belgium.〕 After 20 years at the BBC, and with over 100 prime time films to his name, he left the corporation in 2003 to set up his own company, Uppercut Films, and began to specialise in military and high adventure documentaries〔Uppercut also has a small but vibrant arts department which specialises in theatre based films due to Terrill's passion for live theatre: "When you have your own film company you can chose what films you want to make—it is like having a massive toybox full of all your favourite toys. And you can keep getting new ones." (Terrill, Sept 2008 when asked why he chose to make Theatreland at the same time as working with the Royal Marines.)〕—though always concentrating on communities/groups and their internal dynamics. In 2007, he documented and participated in the rigorous eight months training with the Royal Marine Commandos after which he followed the newly qualified recruits to the front line in Afghanistan for their first taste of real war.〔The National Archives, Defence|News, 14 December 2007: ''The Hardest Embed: Going Native with the Royal Marines''〕〔''Manchester Evening News'', Ian Wylie, 17 September 2007, ''Chris—Right in the Line of Fire''〕 Terrill is the first civilian to complete and pass all four commando tests for which he was awarded an honorary green beret.〔Jimmy Savile was a previous recipient of the honorary green beret although he did not attempt all four commando tests. In any case since the scandal over his activities with under age girls Savile has been posthumously stripped of his honorary green beret. Gethin Jones attempted the last of the tests, the 30-mile run across Dartmoor but finished in a time of 8 hours 20 minutes – 20 minutes over the pass time of 8 hours〕 Terrill produces his own camerawork and sound recording without a film crew. This "lone wolf" technique is a hallmark of his work.〔''New Documentary: A Critical Introduction''. Stella Bruzzi. Pgs, 79,122,123,129,132.〕 Using the new digital technology, he was the first main stream filmmaker to experiment as a self-shooting/self-recording director in the mid 1990s when he made ''Soho Stories'' for the BBC; a series that won him the coveted Royal Television Society Award for Innovation. This seminal series, a colourful and highly revealing portrait of London's glamorous Soho district, was one of the first to use the docu-soap style of filmmaking.〔''New Challenges for Documentary''. Alan Rosenthal, John Corner.〕〔''Understanding Reality'Television'' Su Holmes, Deborah Jermyn. Pge 295.〕 Widely credited as the "father of the docu-soap", though both Paul Watson and Jeremy Mills have similar claim to the title, Terrill then went on to refine his techniques on prime time series such as ''The Cruise'' (BBC1),〔''Frames and Fictions on Television: The Politics of Identity Within''. Bruce Carson, Margaret Llewellyn Jones.〕 ''Jailbirds'' (BBC1),〔For this series Terrill spent eight months in prison.〕〔Independent. ''A Docusoap Worthy of the Hard Cell''. Brian Viner, 21 March 1999〕 ''Through the Eyes of the Old'' (BBC1), ''The Ship'' (BBC2), ''Shipmates'' (BBC 1) and two feature documentary specials on Charlotte Church—''Spreading Her Wings'' (BBC1) and ''Confessions of a Teen-angel'' (ITV1). ''Commando: On the Front Line'' (ITV1)—an account of Royal Marine Commandos fighting in Afghanistan was followed by ''Nature's Fury'' (ITV1)〔''How I Captured the Perfect Storm''. Broadcast. 5 June 2009〕 a trilogy on the world's greatest storms and their impact on communities〔Terrill has established a reputation as ''the thinking man's adventurer''. His quests invariably lead him to the world's hotspots and his focus is usually on the victims of war, poverty or natural hazards, His approach is analytical and searching and his films are not typical "made for TV" adventure. The Radio Times published one article about Terrill's work which was titled rather provocatively: ''Meet the Explorer who Makes Bear Grylls Look Like Barbie''〕〔http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-10-31/surviving-the-arctic-and-the-desert-meet-the-explorer-who-makes-bear-grylls-look-like-barbie〕 In 2009 Terrill made a series on the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, called ''Theatreland''. This was an intimate portrait of theatre people at work and featured Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Anna Friel. In the same year he made a two-part film series about Royal Marines, badly injured in Afghanistan, attempting to climb in the high Himalayas (''Wartorn Warriors''—Sky1).〔This series was shortlisted for the 2010 Mind Mental Health Media Awards and one of the films' main contributors, Marine Danny Claricoates, received 'The Speaking Out Award' for his courage in talking so openly about his own Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after seeing his two best friends blown up and killed in front of him.〕 In 2010 he spent six months on in the Caribbean filming counter narcotics operations as well as humanitarian disaster relief during the hurricane season (''Royal Navy: Caribbean Patrol'' for Channel Five and National Geographic). In 2011 Terrill returned to working with the Royal Marines when he joined 42 Commando in the dangerous Nad e Ali (north) district of Helmand Province. This was for a 6-part series commissioned by Channel Five entitled "Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan" transmitted in January/February 2012. In late 2011 Terrill embarked on a project that brought together the military and the theatre. The Theatre Royal, Haymarket (where Terrill had filmed Theatreland in 2009) put on a play using injured soldiers and marines as the actors, singers, and dancers. The play, written by the poet Owen Sheers and based on the experiences of the soldiers mostly in Afghanistan, was called ''The Two Worlds of Charlie F'' and was performed on 22 January 2012. Terrill's feature-length film entitled ''Theatre of War'', documenting the preparation of the play, was shown on BBC1's Imagine strand and was nominated for a prestigious Grierson Award in the best arts documentary category. In 2014 Terrill's current affairs film for the BBC: ''Marine A: Criminal or Casualty of War?'' won the Evcom Clarion Award for ethics in journalism. In 2015 Terrill became a Fellow of The Maritime Foundation and was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Terrill lectures widely on film making techniques – especially on working solo in the field. He holds regular workshops at the London Film School. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Terrill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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