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Our Team Tel: +27 33 343 1973 | Fax: +27 33 343 1993 | Email: info@dcvp.net

We know that the people we engage are paramount to the success of our business and so we carefully select folk who are passionate about their work. We are committed to employing and promoting an enthusiastic and talented staff so that our clients can really enjoy dealing with us.

We offer the full time services of personable and professional videographers, who are experienced in their field and totally dedicated to capturing your experience as it unfolds. While always being discreet and unobtrusive, they will enhance the ‘good company’ of your pursuit and will become an integral part of the adventure.

Buff in the Swamps:
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Dallas Safari Club:
Booth 401
SCI Show:
Booth 846
Mongolian Hunt:
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Where the videographer who filmed the event does not do the editing, our editors will work closely with him/her to ensure the true essence of your experience is accurately reproduced. Our editors are all highly experienced and will produce a creative and professional video, matched to your specific requests and needs.


Our key management and production personnel are:

Kerry Wallace:

Managing Member, Videographer & Editor:
Kerry was born on 23rd March 1982, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. She grew up in Hilton, where she attended school and rode horses competitively. She then attended Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape for five years, obtaining two degrees and a Postgraduate Diploma in Enterprise Management. Thereafter she travelled and worked in the UK for one year.

Kerry’s passion for wildlife and filming, drew her to her next adventure as concession manageress for a safari outfit in the Niassa Reserve, Northern Mozambique. She lived and worked in this remote region for one year before joining the DCVP team. During these years she has had the fortune of working and travelling in various areas of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana and South Africa.

Kerry became part of the management team for DCVP in mid-2008. Her hobbies include photography, oil painting, and outdoor activities such as hiking, snowskiing, fishing, camping, and horse riding.


Rayno Egner:

Videographer & Editor:
Born on 2nd November 1979 in Durban South Africa, Rayno grew up hunting, fishing and horse riding in the Midlands of Kwa-Zulu Natal on the Ranch's "Westlands" & "Kusan". After his schooling in Pietermaritzburg, he studied Agricultural Management at the University of Natal. During this time he also filmed numerous Big 5 hunts all over the continent before obtaining his Professional Hunters & Dangerous Game Licence in 2000.

Rayno has hunted and fished extensively all over Africa including Mozambique, C.A.R, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe & Kenya. This has enabled him to work in some of the most famous reserves and hunting concessions in Africa: the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Luangwa South, The Selous, Bangwelu swamps, and National Geographic's well known Dzanga-Sanga Bai in C.A.R., where Rayno documented the Western Lowland Gorilla. Rayno’s filming, fishing and hunting travels have taken him beyond Africa to the USA and Mongolia [more].

Rayno is also a professional fly fishing guide, and his hobbies include photography, travel and spear fishing.


Pam Curtis:

Editor:
Pam was born on 22 December 1954 in Lusaka, Zambia. Having travelled extensively in Africa and the UK, Pam relocated to South Africa and pursued a career in Civil and Architectural Draughting. Settling on a farm in the Natal midlands where she raised cattle and horses, she pursued her enjoyment of polocrosse and riding.

Having a well developed interest in wildlife and photography, resulted in a business partnership with her son Clive, involving the production of safari videos. She joined the DCVP team as a key editor in 2006

Pam has been an honorary officer with KZN Wildlife since 2002 and is renowned for her rehabilitation of tortoises in the midlands. She is the author of 3 currently un-published books. Her hobbies include wildlife photography, travel, reading and natural history.


Clive Curtis:

Part-time Videographer & Editor:
Born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on 19 February 1982, Clive grew up on a farm in the Natal Midlands. After schooling in Howick, he then pursued his interest in wildlife and obtained a National Certificate in Nature Conservation as well as a Diploma in Tourism Management.

After completing contract work for the Natal Parks Board(KZN Wildlife) in the Umfolozi and Ithala Game Reserves, as well as work on a Crocodile farm at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Clive pursued his hunting apprenticeship back in South Africa. Whilst managing a Game Capture Unit, he obtained his Professional Hunters License in early 2003. He has since guided and filmed numerous Plains Game and Big 5 hunting safaris for reputable outfitters. Clive has served as an honorary officer for KZN Wildlife since 1999.

Clive has travelled throughout Africa with both rifle and camera, and has hunted and fished in the USA. His hobbies include fishing, photography, adventure sports, lepidoptery and indigenous fauna & flora.


Patrick Rafferty

Videographer:

Born in South Africa in 1973, Patrick has always been a keen outdoorsmen and hunter.

He has managed his own Pecan nut farm since 1998 and is also a qualified Motor Mechanic and Professional Hunter.

Patrick has a pack of bushpig hounds, and spends his weekends hunting with his dogs.

He is also interested in, and practices, traditional bow hunting. His other hobbies include fishing and reading.

Patrick’s passion for the outdoors and experience with hunting, resulted in him becoming an integral part of the DCVP team.


Kevin Jennings

Videographer / editor:

Kevin is also a South African citizen and was born in 1988.

After completing his schooling in Durban, South Africa, he has pursued his passion for the outdoors and video arts.

Coming from a hunting family, Kevin is a keen hunter himself and also enjoys other outdoor activities such as free diving, scuba diving, surfing, flyfishing and photography.

He has worked as a professional hunter’s assistant and as a dive instructor, and is now a part of the DCVP team as a videographer and editor.


Gareth Dimmick

Videographer / editor:

Born in 1981, Gareth grew up and was educated in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Gareth has worked in marketing as a graphic designer since 2000 and has become more involved in editing and production work in the last few years.

His hobbies include playing the guitar, sports and social hunting trips with family and friends.

He has worked for other top safari video production companies and has now joined the DCVP team as an editor and videographer.


Rodney Shuttleworth

Videographer:

Rodney was born in the Matatiele on the 22nd of march 1986. Ever since his childhood he has had a great passion for the outdoors. His family has a proud hunting history as well as fishing, where they have played an integral part of trout stocking throughout East Griqualand.

Rodney finished his schooling in Pietermaritzburg, and then worked in the Agricultural sector for five years which heightened his understanding and knowledge of the outdoors.

Rodney’s hobbies include spear-fishing, deep sea fishing, fly fishing and hunting.

He has worked on numerous occasions with Professional Hunters, assisting them out in the field.

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