William "Bill" Campbell is a former '' Time Magazine''

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and a current documentary filmmaker and the president of Homefire Productions, Inc. He is married to Maryanne Vollers.

Background

Campbell established his career as

with '' Time Magazine'' in Africa and the Middle East, and has been a member of the National Press Photographers Association since 1978. After moving to Montana in 1997, he switched his focus to film and video, and has since produced current affairs programming for ''

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'', '' NBC News'' and '' PBS Now'', where he is a contributing producer. Two of Campbell’s hour-long documentaries, ''Season of the Grizzly'', about

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s surviving in Yellowstone National Park, and ''Sole Survivors: The Yellowstone Bison'', about the fate of the Yellowstone

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herd, have been shown on Animal Planet and the

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. In 2007, Campbell co-produced, directed and filmed ''Wolves in Paradise'', a documentary about wolves and ranchers in the "New West", in conjunction with Montana PBS and ITVS.

Filmography

* ''Season of the Grizzly'' (2003) * ''Sole Survivors: The Yellowstone Bison'' (2004) * ''Wolves in Paradise (2007)'' * ''America's Wild Spaces'' (2008)

Recognition

Campbell's documentary film ''Wolves in Paradise'', received a 2008 CINE Golden Eagle Award for 'Best Documentary - Environmental and Natural Science', and a 2008 'Best of Fest Award" at the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, as well as a 2008

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nomination .

References

External links

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''Wolves in Paradise''
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