# Daniel Ferguson

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'''Daniel Ferguson''' is a filmmaker whose credits include ''Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France'', ''[Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta](/source/Journey_to_Mecca)'' and ''[Last of the Elephant Men](/source/Last_of_the_Elephant_Men)''.<ref>"Documentary explores Asian tribe's bond with elephants". ''[Victoria Times-Colonist](/source/Victoria_Times-Colonist)'', July 9, 2015.</ref>

==Career==

Ferguson was line producer and script writer for the 2009 [IMAX](/source/IMAX) dramatised documentary ''Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta'', produced by Cosmic Picture and SK Films,<ref name="Jakarta Post">[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/06/30/imax-film-%E2%80%98journey-mecca%E2%80%99-proves-be-enlightening.html Article in Jakarta Post] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815173318/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/06/30/imax-film-%E2%80%98journey-mecca%E2%80%99-proves-be-enlightening.html |date=2009-08-15 }}</ref> which won the Houston International Film Festival award for best short documentary in 2010 and, a year earlier in Paris, ''Le Prix Du Public'' Most Popular Film at Le Géode Film Festival.<ref name="Jakarta Post"/><ref>[http://www.giantscreencinema.com/Films/FilmDatabase/FilmDatabaseDetailView/tabid/288/Default.aspx?movieid=364 Giant Screen Cinema Association entry]</ref> It also won a prize at the [Tribeca Film Festival](/source/Tribeca_Film_Festival) in [New York City](/source/New_York_City).<ref name="Jakarta Post"/> The film tells the story of Ibn Battuta as he travelled to Mecca in the fourteenth century.
Ferguson was co-writer and first assistant director on ''Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France'' which followed two riders on the hundredth anniversary of the contest and explored how the cyclists’ brains coped with the rigours of the race.<ref>[http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/features/?id=2006/wired_to_win Article in Cycling News]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Space/Programs/Omnimax/WiredtoWin/e_WiredtoWin.htm |title=Hong Kong Space Museum |access-date=2014-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202165158/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Space/Programs/Omnimax/WiredtoWin/e_WiredtoWin.htm |archive-date=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Other film credits include line producer on ''Roads to Mecca'' and ''Lost Worlds: Life in the Balanc'', associate producer and line producer on ''[Seducing Maarya](/source/Seducing_Maarya)'', and assistant director on ''Schmooze''.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272402/ IMDb entry]</ref>
Ferguson was also director, writer and producer for the 3D IMAX film [''Jerusalem''](/source/Jerusalem_(2013_film)) with [George Duffield](/source/George_Duffield_(film-maker)), [Taran Davies](/source/Taran_Davies) and the late [Jake Eberts](/source/Jake_Eberts).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/873448/film-producer-jake-eberts-to-receive-award-from-canadian-friends-of-the-hebrew-university-of-jerusalem |title=Article on Canadian Newswire |access-date=2014-01-21 |archive-date=2014-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202103614/http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/873448/film-producer-jake-eberts-to-receive-award-from-canadian-friends-of-the-hebrew-university-of-jerusalem |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.cjnews.com/news/arts/jerusalem-imax-film-aiming-100-million-viewers Article in Canadian Jewish News]</ref> It is narrated by [Benedict Cumberbatch](/source/Benedict_Cumberbatch) and was released in 2013.<ref name="CBS News">[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/benedict-cumberbatch-voiced-film-jerusalem-inside-the-making-of-the-imax-movie/ Article on CBS News]</ref><ref name="Washington Post">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/jerusalem-a-tribute-to-the-holy-city-comes-to-the-giant-screen/2013/11/15/4e3efca4-4e21-11e3-97f6-ed8e3053083b_story.html Article in the Washington Post]</ref>

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