Backstory
Jennifer Brown moved from the plains of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida.
And, she fell in love.
She fell in love with the ever-changing sky.
The minnows in sweet tea-colored waters.
The skinny pines and fat bottomed cypress.
She fell in love with bluebirds, seaside sparrows, and pink muhly grass.
Jennifer arrived as a field biologist and film student in 2008.
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While studying Eastern Bluebirds reintroduced in the pine rocklands of Everglades National Park, she completed her student film Pine Rockland Composition, which aired on South Florida PBS.
Read her Master of Fine Art in Science & Natural History Filmmaking thesis here.
Over the next four years, Jennifer created over 30 films as the Video Producer for Everglades National Park.
She swam with Caribbean Reef Squid in Florida Bay, became qualified as a Wildland Firefighter to film prescribed fires, and explored shell mound islands left by the First Floridians.
She discovered the Everglades, a mosaic of uplands and lowlands shaped by water, fire, and people.
Jennifer migrated to the northern Everglades in 2012 and found a home in Venus surrounded by cow prairies, pineywoods, remaining Florida scrub, and wetlands.
Venus is a reminder of the roadless days when constellations and planets were used as a celestial GPS.
She created Into Nature Films, an independent production company specializing in documentary films about people, places, and species often overlooked.
Jennifer continued her partnership with the National Park Service creating films like Burn Boss: A History of Fire & People in the Big Cypress and Dreaming of the Everglades.
And she formed a new partnership with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to tell the comeback stories of the endangered Perdido Key Beach Mouse and Gulf Sturgeon of northwest Florida.
Closer to home in the rare Florida scrub, Jennifer created dozens of short films for Archbold Biological Station including Surviving Fire, Queen of Red Hill, and Three Reasons to Love Ranches: If You Are a Florida Burrowing Owl.
No project is closer to Jennifer’s heart than Little Brown Bird about North America’s most endangered bird making its last stand in Kissimmee Prairie.
Little Brown Bird unravels the mysterious decline of the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow.
Over a decade in the making, this 12-episode docu-series is coming soon.
Rick Anderson is the Writer, Associate Producer, and Fire Ecologist for Into Nature Films. He uses his words to tell the story of fire, people, and the natural history of Florida. A son of palmetto country pioneers, his writing gives a Florida accent to the works of Into Nature Films. Rick has dedicated his life to the use of fire for the land across the Western hemisphere, including indigenous communities in Central and South America.