Alvaro Sarmiento is a Quechua descendant documentarist, founder and director of HDPERU, a non-profit organization engaged in the production of films in defense of native peoples’ rights and environmental […]

  Alizé Carrère is a National Geographic Explorer, filmmaker, and PhD student researching and documenting human adaptations to environmental change. In 2013, Alizé received support from National Geographic to conduct […]

  Aaron is a Washington, D.C.-based documentary filmmaker passionate about telling intimate stories at the intersection of the environment and politics. He runs a doc production company called Tributary Productions, […]

  Dereck and Beverly Joubert are world famous, award-winning filmmakers, conservationists and explorers from Botswana. As National Geographic Explorers-at-Large, they founded the Big Cats Initiative that now has over 120 […]

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is one of this generation’s most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed Oscar-winning dramas A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13 to the hit comedies Parenthood […]

Bill Wallauer offers a unique and fascinating view of life among wild chimpanzees. Bill became part of the life at the Jane Goodall Institute’s Gombe Stream Research Center in 1989 […]

Fraser Jones is a filmmaker hailing from Atlanta. After receiving his B.F.A. in Film & Television from NYU, Fraser soon moved to Australia to write a children’s television series for […]

An advocate for the planet’s most at-risk species, Katie operates at the nexus between empathy and storytelling. More than a decade of filmmaking across six continents, Katie’s films explore how […]

From his home in the mountains of Montana to now countless countries, landscapes and cultures across the globe, Max has been witness to stories spanning the gap of the human […]

Maria Clinton is a filmmaker, photographer and consulting editor based in New York. In addition, she is an Adjunct Professor of Film. Maria has presented a lecture with her colleague […]