Oscar winner Guillermo Navarro on bringing climate change alive on-screen for Nat Geo's 'Hostile Planet' (Exclusive)

Guillermo Navarro, who won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for Pan's Labyrinth, and worked on films like Hellboy, Pacific Rim, Stuart Little, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2, Spy Kids is known for his incredible use of imagery and visual language which can make you feel like you are right there where the action is taking place. We spoke to Guillermo Navarro to understand what he saw on his 1300 days of filming around the world for the six episodes of Hostile Planet, featuring the world's most extreme environments -- mountains, oceans, grasslands, jungles, deserts, polar -- each proving to be a unique experience in terms of filmmaking and in the kind of battleground it is for the animal species native to it. From starting off his career with documentaries to making a docu-series like Hostile Planet Guillermo Navarro isn't new to the documentary scene. The challenge of bringing climate change alive on TV It is precisely the hunt for an immersive experience that brought Nat Geo to Oscar winning cinematographer Guillermo Navarro -- in the hope that his work will be able to bring alive the climate change warpath animals are on right now thanks to the havoc caused by humans in as little as the last 40 years. "From a filmmaker's perspective, all of the struggles we saw animals facing came back to climate change and to the impact that human behaviour is having on the planet," he says.