Biography

Victoria Hughes - Contributing Producer on some DCF projects.
Born: Washington DC 18 May 1958
Education: Primary and secondary: Barbados, Great Britain, Canada, United States
University: University of Virginia BA 1981

Vicki Hughes has been an independent Documentary Film maker for 12 years. She arrived at her chosen profession by a circuitous route. The child of a US diplomat, she spent her childhood and adolescence living all over the world. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and Religious Studies she took a year off from graduate school and went to teach at a Scottish high school in Tel Aviv, Israel. The year turned into four years. Throughout her childhood and early adulthood Vicki had been a keen student of natural history and as well as observing various cultures and religions in the Middle East, she continued to nurture that interest and spent countless hours watching wildlife. She returned to US in 1985 determined to combine her love of writing and fascination with wildlife, cultures and religions into a creative and beneficial way of life. After teaching in the Washington area for a couple of years, she took a job in the film library at National Geographic… here, cataloguing footage and defining animal species and behavior, she learned about filmmaking and found an ideal way of combining her interests and training. While still working in the library, she researched, wrote and directed documentaries for the Educational Films division of the Society, and made her first independent film. In 1996 she left National Geographic to become a full time independent film maker.

In the past 12 years she has produced, written and directed over 60 hours of broadcast programming for the Discovery Channel, BBC, PBS, National Geographic, and GA&A Productions (Italy). She sees her work as way of helping audiences to understand the wonders of the world around us, using compelling story telling as a way to inspire appreciation for the lives of other species and cultures, and in so doing encouraging care for, and nurturing of the incredible diversity of life.