Fred El-Harris

Fred EL Harris is an award winning animator, filmmaker, producer, landscape painter and photographer. In the mid 90's he established a film studio where he produced high quality corporate, commercial, documentary series and stereoscopic films. Fred has been involved as co-producer on the Netflix and National Geographic series "Tales by Light". Each episode follows renowned photographers as they travel the world to capture one-of-a-kind images. Fred has Produced "By Compass and Quran", a documentary about Afghan cameleers in Australia, due to be screened on the ABC "Compass" program on March 15, 2015. His animated work on Woven threads series has been shown on ABC, LA film festival and won numerous awards and nominations Including the AACTA awards. Fred has also mastered and color graded numerous TV series such as Lion returns (feature film), Kochies Business Builders, The Chef's Line, The Airport Economist and Big Cats (Animal Planet). Since 2001 Fred has produced the 26 episode documentary series "The Wildlife Man featuring David Ireland", which has been nominated for several awards including the Australian TV-Week Logie Awards. The series was also screened regularly on Channel 9 and sold to Discovery HD in the US, Canada, and translated to many languages throughout Europe and Asia. Fred has taught editing and filmmaking at countless community workshops, TAFE NSW, metro screen, and Arts centres. In 1995 he was awarded "Most Outstanding Citizen of the Year" by Bankstown City Council for his achievements and contributions.