About us - Who we are:

Mark Baker

Mark Baker, Director of Black Apple, has been making adventure documentaries and instructional videos/DVDs since 1997.

His rock climbing documentary “A Hard Way to the Top” filmed on the 300m high, North Wall of Buffalo Gorge in Eastern Victoria won Best Human Adventure Award at the 2002 Giri-Doot International Film Festival. He has made a number of instructional DVDs that are distributed to schools and universities throughout Australia. He helped film a BASE jumping documentary in the Karakoram in 2001.

Mark has been climbing for 25 years and was the Australian Sport Climbing Champion during the early 1990's. He has a first class honours degree in Zoology.

The rest of the staff at Black Apple are over qualified………..

Michael Dillion AM

Michael Dillon is Australia's leading Cameraman/Director of Adventure and Expedition Documentaries. On an International level he has won more awards in this field than any other individual worldwide.

His Documentary “Everest Sea to Summit” which he conceived, Produced, Directed and filmed is the most internationally awarded Adventure documentary of all time winning nine Grand Prizes at International Mountain and Exploration Film Festivals worldwide. Filming this documentary, during a 4 month period in 1990 involved walking for 700 kilometers carrying a heavy camera the entire time.

He has made 5 Adventure Documentaries with Sir Edmund Hillary including the Grand Prize Winning “From the Ocean to the Sky” about a 4 month jet boat journey along India's River Ganges.

Other expeditions and adventures he has filmed include the first Australian Ascent of Everest in 1984, two Everest Ballooning Expeditions, a BASE jumping expedition in the Karakoram, four Antarctic Expeditions, two English Channel Swims , other expeditions in Siberia, Irian Jaya, Africa and the Andes, and a journey by London Taxi from London to Sydney.

He has received two US Primetime Emmy nominations for cinematography, for his camerawork on “Survivor- the Australian Outback” and the National Geographic Television Special “Those Wonderful Dogs”

His Natural History Documentary Credits include “The Big Wet”, “ Living Edens- Tasmania” and “State of the Planet with David Attenborough”

Gary Caganoff

International Award winning filmmaker Gary Caganoff has been exploring wild and remote landscapes around the world for 22 years. A professional Outdoor Guide with a Masters in Social Ecology, Gary's experiences include, rock climbing, mountaineering, kayaking, rafting, x-country skiing, and specialises in extended wilderness expeditions into all types of unknown, unexplored landscapes.

Gary's film, The Second Step, about above-knee double amputee Warren Macdonald and his 28day epic journey to climb the remote Federation Peak in South West Tasmania, won seven international awards, including the most prestigious Grand Prize, at the 27th Banff Mountain Film Festival. The film screened on the ABC and National Geographic around the world.