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Lifetime Achievement Award PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 03 November 2008 10:43

IWFF Announces Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

The IWFF Lifetime Achievement Award, established two years ago, recognizes the work and dedication of individuals whose efforts and achievements, reflect the mission of IWFF – to promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.

For the 32nd IWFF – 2009, we are proud to announce the following Lifetime Achievement Award Winners:

IWFF Lifetime Achievement Award for Media:
Chris Palmer:
In the early 1980s, Chris Palmer gave up his successful career as an energy policy expert and devoted his life to producing environmental and wildlife films that promote conservation. He has spent the last 25 years producing hundreds of hours of award-winning films for television and the global network of IMAX theaters. All of his films document threatened species and habitats and expose damaging commercial practices while celebrating environmental success stories.

In 1983, Chris founded the nonprofit National Audubon Society Productions, serving as president and CEO for 11 years. In 1994, he founded the nonprofit National Wildlife Productions (part of the National Wildlife Federation, the largest conservation organization in the United States), which, he managed as president, and CEO for 10 years, directing NWF's launch into broadcast, cable, syndication, home video, new media, IMAX, and international markets.

He joined the full-time faculty at American University in August 2004 as Distinguished Film Producer in Residence and founded the Center for Environmental Filmmaking, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring the next generation of wildlife filmmakers. Chris gives speeches across the country advocating for more effective and ethical wildlife filmmaking. Sierra Club Books will publish his book on wildlife filmmaking next year.

In addition to being a professor at AU, Chris is also president of the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation, which produces and funds IMAX films on conservation. MacGillivray Freeman Films is the world’s largest and most successful producer and distributor of IMAX films. Chris is also chief executive officer of VideoTakes, Inc., a film production company in Arlington, Virginia, which produces environmental films, videos, DVDs, and new media.

http://www.wildlifefilms.org/

 
Primate film request PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 28 October 2008 09:04

Dear FFC,          

I am working as a lecturer in zoology in India and we run a wildlife club in our department in which we show wildlife movies to our students every Saturday. Recently new topics related to primate behaviour were introduced to our school curriculum syllabus. So we would really like to be able to show our students real behaviour of primates in the club. I was hoping either your members or non-members might be able to send us some films? If anyone has some films please could you send them on either CD or DVD.

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Conserving Cheetah PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 20 October 2008 11:04

ZSL/WCS Conservation Challenges for the 21st Century series:

 

SAVING AFRICA’S ATHLETES: CONSERVING CHEETAH AND WILD DOGS

 

Dear All,

 

Please find attached details of the first event in the new ZSL/WCS Conservation Challenges for the 21st Century series which will be held at ZSL on Tuesday 28 October 2008.

 “Saving Africa’s Athletes: conserving cheetahs and wild dogs” will give an insight into the practical fieldwork of ZSL and WCS conservationists Rosie Woodroffe, Maurus Msuha and Sarah Durant.

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Friends of the Earth PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 16 October 2008 08:41

In Friends of the Earth's one-minute film competition this year, we asked filmmakers 'Which bit of the Earth are you a friend of?' and got goose bumps from the groovy entries we received.

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East European Forum PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 10 October 2008 10:12

East European Forum is a unique meeting of East European documentary filmmakers and significant European commissioning editors where the filmmakers and their independent producers offer their creative projects for co-production, pre-sale and acquisistion. The Forum is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in co-operation with the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.

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Wilderness Explored PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 06 October 2008 12:45

Composing the music score for "Wilderness Explored" - Al Lethbridge

Two hundred years ago vast expanses of the Arctic, Australian desert and central African jungle were virtually unknown to European explorers - literally great blanks on the map, their wildernesses places of unimaginable fear.

But explorers were to change that.  Wilderness Explored, a bold new three-part series, from the BBC’s Natural History Unit, charts how this exploration changed our imagining of these pristine landscapes.

This refreshing, thought-provoking series, is a rich combination of stunning wild life imagery, striking footage of the Arctic, Australia and central Africa, as well as art, poetry, prose and music inspired by these landscapes.

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AU’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 19 September 2008 14:16

AU’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking and Filmmakers for Conservation Present: The 4th Annual Fall Film Series. Hosted by Chris Palmer and Justine Schmidt

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Global Warming Court Case PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 16 September 2008 09:49

By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor, The Independent, UK. 11 September 2008

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.

Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a 'lawful excuse' to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kentto prevent even greater damage caused by climate change. The defence of 'lawful excuse' under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater damage – such as breaking down the door of a burning house to tackle a fire.

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