Hollywood Fox
(2005) is a film I made
with Parthenon Entertainment, a UK based production and distribution company. It was made for National Geographic International, Animal Planet US, NDR, Germany and VOOM TV. I spent the better part of a year filming in and around Bakersfield, California with most days well over 100 degrees F. I was even bitten by a rattlesnake one evening while filming kangaroo rats. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
with Parthenon Entertainment, a UK based production and distribution company. It was made for National Geographic International, Animal Planet US, NDR, Germany and VOOM TV. I spent the better part of a year filming in and around Bakersfield, California with most days well over 100 degrees F. I was even bitten by a rattlesnake one evening while filming kangaroo rats. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
The San Joaquin Kit Fox is the second smallest of the world’s foxes; a tiny cat sized predator from the desert valleys of California. Over the past century real-estate developments shot up throughout the State and the kit fox looked doomed to failure - they needed to change - shape up, or ship out - but the fox seems to have risen to the challenge.
In
this unusual blue chip one hour special we will
follow the trials and tribulations of a brother
and sister, kit foxes who have left their parents
territory to set out on their own - it’s a story
of survival, but also of rags to riches, of
making it in Hollywood; while the brother stays
in the country, struggling to make a living in
the traditional way, his sister is drawn in by
the bright lights of the city - this is the
classic 'American Tale' of one pioneer striking
out, and perhaps saving her kind.
In
Bakersfield the endangered kit fox has shown its
immense adaptability - amid houses it is free
from predation, and the mess created by humans
supports a healthy rodent population for it to
feed upon. When people settled they tried to get
rid of all predators, including the kit fox, but
at the eleventh hour the tables were turned, now
it seems that people may have created a fox
paradise and that these new urban foxes may hold
the key to safeguarding their cousins in the
wild. Join us as we reveal the amazing lives of
the Hollywood Fox.