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Rupert Macnee Productions, owned and run by Rupert Macnee, provides research, marketing and media consulting services to a number of clients including: the US Geological Survey; the California Department of Health Services (Distance Learning Health Network); and the Kawasaki Disease Foundation. The company is now developing entertainment and informational programming for broadcast and Internet distribution.

Rupert Macnee is an Executive Producer of "Darwin's Brave New World", a three-part miniseries, coproduced by Ferns Productions in British Columbia, Canada and Becker Entertainment in Sydney, Australia. Principal photography for this drama-documentary began in August 2008 for a May 2009 delivery. The show will be broadcast on ABC in Australia and CBC (The Nature of Things) during the summer and autumn of 2009.

Macnee recently co-authored "Kawasaki Syndrome in India: Old Disease, New Disease?" for publication in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and produced an accompanying video, shot in India, with a grant from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Now in pre-production is Ramping UP - a documentary about access to higher education for those with physical disabilities - for the PBS affiliate, WILL-TV in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

As Executive Producer, National and International Production, for the PBS affiliate, KCTS/Seattle, he supervised PBS broadcast programs and their associated educational websites, including the 9/11 themed US-Canadian co-production Stranded Yanks, Perfect Illusions: Eating Disorders and the Family, The Video Game Revolution, Exploring Space and The Inside Passage, as well as Rhona on Air, a relationship advice series and an Emmy-nominated series of interstitials on early childhood development in association with the Talaris Institute.

His previous production credits, in Los Angeles and Toronto, include The Untamed World, An Evening at the Improv, Behind the Scene with Jonathan Winters, and the Cable-ACE winning Showtime series Full Frontal Comedy. He has produced awards shows and specials. In addition, he has produced, written, edited and directed for such reality/entertainment programs as A&E's Ancient Mysteries, Discovery Channel's Movie Magic and World of Wonder and the Canadian syndicated series Reel TV. He has also produced video/web educational distance-learning courses for PBS' Adult Learning Service, as well as numerous health-information, training, promotional and marketing projects for the broadcast, corporate, educational and home video markets. Periodically, he teaches communication and media production to public health students at San Diego State University.