Disneynature

Disneynature is an independent film label of The Walt Disney Company, founded on April 21, 2008 as a division of The Walt Disney Studios. Its releases consist of a series of independent nature documentary films. Headquartered in Paris, it is the only Disney subsidiary not headquartered in the United States.
==Background==
Disney veteran Jean-Francois Camilleri, who has served as senior vice president and general manager for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures France is the head of the new unit. Disneynature is based in France, where Camilleri and his team oversees the initiation, development and acquisition of high quality feature projects.
The first film released domestically under the new label was the American version of Earth, from award-winning British producer/director Alastair Fothergill, whose credits include the landmark Planet Earth series for the BBC and The Discovery Channel and The Blue Planet. Earth, produced by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media and co-directed by Mark Linfield, was released in cinemas internationally in 2007. It premiered in the U.S. on Earth Day, April 22, 2009.
The first new production to be released by Disneynature was announced to be The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos. The world premiere of the film took place in Bordeaux, France on October 26, 2008, and was released internationally throughout 2009.
Disneynature was the official sponsor for the 2009 Epcot Flower and Garden Festival. Footage from Disneynature films are also used in Rivers of Light at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
==Films==
Film 	Year	Budget 	Worldwide Gross	Production Studio 	Release Date
Earth 	2009	$43,000,000 (estimated)	$108,975,160 	Greenlight Media AGBBC WorldwideBBC Natural History UnitGaumontDiscovery ChannelNHK	UK November 16, 2007US April 22, 2009
Oceans 	2010	$30,000,000 (estimated)	$82,651,439 	France 3 CinemaFrance 2 CinemaGAGAParticipant MediaCanal+ 	UK November 6, 2009US April 22, 2010
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos	2010	 	 	Kudos PicturesNatural Light Films 	UK September 25, 2009US October 19, 2010
African Cats 	2011	  	$30,857,747 	Forum Hungary 	UK April 20, 2012US April 22, 2011
Wings of Life 	2011	  	  	Blacklight Films 	FR March 16, 2011US April 16, 2013
Chimpanzee 	2012	  	$28,972,764 	Jane Goodall InstituteBlacklight Films 	US April 20, 2012
Bears 	2014	 	 	 	US April 18, 2014
Monkey Kingdom 	2015	 	 	 	US April 17, 2015
L'Empereur 	2017	 	 	Bonne Pioche CinémaPaprika FilmsWild-Touch ProductionOCSFrance 3 	France February 15, 2017
Born in China 	2017	 	 	Shanghai Media Group 	US April 21, 2017
Penguins 	2019	 	 	 	US April 17, 2019
Diving with Dolphins 	2020	 	 	 	US April 3, 2020
Dolphin Reef 	2020	 	 	 	US April 3, 2020
Elephant 	2020	 	 	 	US April 3, 2020
In the Footsteps of Elephant 	2020	 	 	 	US April 3, 2020
Life on the Edge 	2020	 	 	 	US April 3, 2020
Polar Bear 	2022	 	 	 	US April 22, 2022
Tiger 	2024	 	 	 	US April 22, 2024
==Disneynature logo==
The logo of Disneynature is an iceberg that resembles Cinderella Castle, a structure that also serves as the logo for Walt Disney Pictures.
The music for the Disneynature logo was composed by Mark Mancina who recorded his score at the Sony Scoring Stage on March 21, 2008 with the Hollywood Studio Symphony, conducted by Don Harper.
==Trivia==
*Earth is the only Disneynature film that is currently missing on Disney+. It is very likely that Disney no longer holds the American distribution rights to the film due to it being an acquisition from BBC Worldwide, who produced the film.
==See also==
*True-Life Adventures - Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning nature film series, and the first nature film series produced by Disney.
==External links==
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*Official website
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