Work

Stories From the Edge of the Map.

Documentaries, series and campaigns shot from the Himalaya to the South Pacific. Every project lists the role plainly: what Eric shot, directed or cut.

Kayakers on a calm river below a big evening sky

Tourism · Eastern Idaho

Yellowstone Teton Territory

Destination marketing

Destination films and stills for eastern Idaho’s tourism region, from Teton Valley to the edge of Yellowstone.

Adventure motorcycles beside a stupa on a Himalayan dirt road

Annual · 55 minutes · Prime Video

A Rally for Rangers

Director

Producer

Cinematographer

Editor

More than 4,000 national parks protect the world’s wildest places, sometimes with only a handful of under-equipped rangers. The film follows the riders who deliver motorcycles and gear to them, and what that equipment changes on the front line of conservation.

Screened at the Motorcycle Film Festival, the Colorado Environmental Film Festival and the World Wildlife Day showcase. The companion short, Rangers of the Ulaan Taiga, earned its own festival awards.

Produced while Eric was Director of Productions at Fisher Creative.

Watch on Prime Video

Alpenglow on the summit pyramid of Mount Everest

2019 · Nepal · National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet

Expedition Everest

Field cinematography

High altitude

For more than two months the team led media for about 40 glaciologists, geologists, meteorologists and mappers on the most comprehensive scientific expedition ever mounted on Everest.

Eric spent eight weeks in the field and filmed the scientists all the way to the Balcony at 27,657 feet, where they installed the world’s highest weather station. The film, Expedition Everest, streams on Disney+.

Produced while Eric was Director of Productions at Fisher Creative.

Watch on Disney+   The science, on National Geographic

Eric Daft and Bear Grylls grinning at the camera in Fiji

2019 · Fiji · Prime Video

World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji

Camera operator

Embedded field crew

Teams of four raced non-stop, day and night, across hundreds of miles of Fijian backcountry with only a map and compass.

Eric was embedded with athletes on the toughest sections of the course, filming for the Prime Video series hosted by Bear Grylls.

Produced while Eric was Director of Productions at Fisher Creative.

Golden stupas of a Myanmar pagoda with visitors at the base

Documentary · Myanmar

Myanmar: Bridges to Change

Cinematography

An award-winning documentary filmed across Myanmar, from Yangon’s pagodas to the villages and rivers beyond the city.

Produced while Eric was Director of Productions at Fisher Creative.

Film details on IMDb

Expedition tents on red desert ground in the Gobi

Mongolia · The Explorers Club

Gobi Desert expeditions

Expedition cinematography

Documenting Explorers Club archaeological work in the Gobi, including the club’s centennial expedition. Favorite moment so far: stumbling over a T-Rex claw the size of his hand.

Earlier Gobi work includes the Infiniti Gobi Expedition, a commercial crossing of the desert.

Produced while Eric was Director of Productions at Fisher Creative.

Climber below Ama Dablam with prayer flags

Nepal · Music documentary

Soundtrek Everest with Paul Oakenfold

Cinematography

Following DJ Paul Oakenfold on the trek to Everest Base Camp and the set he played at the foot of the mountain.

Produced while Eric was Director of Productions at Fisher Creative.

Camera operator filming from the rail of a ship at sea

Commercial · Worldwide

Royal Caribbean International

Commercial cinematography

Years of campaign work for the cruise line, from ship life to shore excursions in ports around the world.

Produced while Eric was Director of Productions at Fisher Creative.

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