Testimonial

“Gryphon Productions is an award-winning company with 27 years in the broadcasting industry. Gryphon has been using SS Media Co as our web designer/web master for over 5 years. We were impressed with the creative/technical ideas for our website, from the start. And throughout the years they have provided us with excellent service, making updates and adjustments to the site as needed, even suggesting new formats and up-to-date interfaces for our site. We have had many compliments about our site from top movie industry people in Hollywood and from TV executives in Washington DC and New York. SS Media Co’s design of our website has created a top-end professional and innovative look to Gryphon Productions and has increased our visibility worldwide. It is our calling card with television networks and movie studios and has proven to be a very powerful tool. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend SS MEDIA CO. and Scott Smith to other companies and invididuals wanting to increase and improve their web presence.”

- Peter von Puttkamer, President – Gryphon Productions Ltd.

Biography

Peter von Puttkamer and Sheera von Puttkamer have created more than 120 documentaries and have been producing international award-winning films in the United States and Canada over the last 25 years. Their company, Gryphon Productions Ltd. have created documentaries for The Learning Channel (TLC), Animal Planet, Discovery Channel Europe/International, Discovery Canada, GLOBAL-TV, C.B.C., CTV, S.B.S. (Australian Public Television) and various Canadian specialty channels. These programs have won more than 65 international awards.

Peter von Puttkamer?s fascination with indigenous peoples, anthropology, archaeology, mythology, music and wildlife has led to work around the world.  Whether working on heart-felt personal stories, socio-political issues or broad adventure-based entertainment documentaries, filmmaking for the von Puttkamers has always been a blend of mind, body and spirit.

Peter’s climbed through ancient caves used for human sacrifice in Mexico, filmed then eaten giant 12? tarantulas with Venezuelan blow-gun hunters, filmed sacred mask rituals and dances of North American natives, recorded soul music classics with legendary recording artists, worked with AIDS survivors, chased Caribou herds on the Arctic Circle, joined a hunt for Bigfoot and documented the heart-wrenching tales of terminally-ill patients.

Their films have been specially selected for Festivals and retrospectives in Italy and Brazil. Their films/series for TLC/Discovery Channel/CTV such as “Sasquatch Odyssey” and “Monster Hunters” have dealt with the strange world of cryptozoology.”Sasquatch Odyssey” won several awards and was selected for the prestigious 1999 IDA Doctober Festival screenings in Los Angeles- qualifying it for Academy Award nomination ?Monster Hunters? produced for TLC screened at the New York International Independent Film Festival in New York and LA and has won 2 Platinum Awards at the 2002 Worldfest Houston. In 2003-2004, Gryphon created & wrote/directed/co-produced an 8 hour, 24 segment series “Beyond Invention” for Discovery Channel.  Winner of 3 American Indian Film Festival Awards, Peter von Puttkamer’s Native Indian films have had a major social, cultural and political impact.  Along with his partner Sheera, Peter is currently producing/developing Feature Documentaries with Animal Planet, History Channel and Sony Pictures.