Awards

Lesley's work has been credited with the following awards:

Campaign Awards
Rethink the shark: 1. Panda Award 2008, 2. Jackson Hole Film Festival 2009 - Winner Campaign Award; 3. Interfilm Berlin 2009 - Viral Video Award; 4. Montana 2009 - Best of Category in the Non Broadcast Program Category; 5. Missoula 2009 - Best of Category in Advertising/PSA/Promo; 6. Fastnet Short Film Festival - Special Mention *
Lesley: campaigner, ad agency: Saatchi & Saatchi with Groundglass
Rethink campaign: Jackson Hole Film Festival in the 360 Campaign Award (the majority of all elements submitted in PDF Presentation are Lesley's work, which included elements from Rethink the shark and Rethink the predator, plus other educational and awareness elements produced by Lesley)*                          
Lesley: campaigner, ad agency: Saatchi & Saatchi

Production/Campaign Awards
Save Our Sharks: Panda Award 2010*
Lesley: Original idea, producer, director, off-line editor & scriptwriter (footage)*
Sharks in Deep Trouble: 1. Conservation Message Award, Montana Cine International Film Festival 2008; 2. Honorary Conservation Message Award; 3. Honorary Investigative Journalism Award, 32 International Wildlife Film Festival 2009; 4. Outstanding Achievement Award; 5. Conservation Message Award, Celebrate the Sea Festival 2009; 6. Best Information Film Award, Film Category A, at the 36th World Festival of Underwater Pictures 2009, AND 7. Best of Festival Award, Beneath the Waves Film Festival, 39th Benthic Ecology Meeting 2010.
Lesley: Original idea, producer, director, editor, scriptwriter, videographer

*Note: Lesley and AfriOceans were sponsored by the Save Our Seas Foundation from 2004 to 2009. Chris Clarke, former executive director and in-house producer, Caroline Brett, of SOS entered much of Lesley's work into many film festivals. Lesley was however not credited for the awards her work won. In addition, in 2009 Lesley produced a short video which she titled 'Save Our Sharks'. The production was awarded a PANDA at the 2010 Wildscreen Film Festival. Lesley was not credited although she is in fact the original producer, director, off-line editor and scriptwriter of the production, which was merely revised by the SOS Foundation. In addition, she kindly used much of her hard hitting finning footage from Sharks in Deep Trouble, her award winning documentary, as well as other footage that belongs to her, and she used footage from fellow shark conservationists, Alex Hofford. This is the second Panda Lesley's work has been credited with.

See the Rethink the shark TV ad here.