Bess Manley

Working with production company Digital Dimensions, Bess has worked on international documentaries as both Producer and Production Manager. Credits include World’s Worst Venom (Associate Producer) for National Geographic Channel; Wild Tasmania (Writer & Associate Producer) for international release; and Mysteries of the Shark Coast (Production Manager) for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. Her latest role was Producer for the kids TV show Barney's Barrier Reef, a co-production with the CBBC.

Bess also writes, directs and edits corporate productions and television advertisements for a broad range of clients from government departments to charities. She recently published a cover feature in Discovery Channel magazine.

Bess has an academic background in zoology, specialising in tropical marine biology. She is an experienced scuba diver and has worked on science media projects across the Indo-Pacific.