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FRONTLINE’s 13 nods included two nominations in the prestigious “Best Documentary” category for the 2021 documentaries A Thousand Cuts and American Insurrection. A Thousand Cuts follows renowned journalist Maria Ressa, CEO of the independent news site Rappler and a top target of then-Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on press freedom. In December 2021, Ressa was named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The feature-length film was also nominated in the “Outstanding Social Issue Documentary” category.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/frontline-documentary-a-thousand-cuts-wins-peabody-award/

Over 60 years Charlie and Lois O'Brien traveled to more than 67 countries, quietly amassing the world’s largest private insect collection, an entomological game-changer of 1.25 million specimens. These two renowned, married entomologists now grapple with the advancement of the Parkinson’s disease that afflicts Charlie. But Charlie and Lois know they need to keep fighting for the value of scientific knowledge, so they turn to their insects for a little help.This humorous and poignant documentary explores the Love of Nature and the Nature of Love--and what it means to completely devote oneself to both…https://www.pbs.org/video/the-love-bugs-sywsod/https://www.amdoc.org/watch/media/1488/https://www.thelovebugsfilm.com/

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"Perhaps the single most lucid, succinct, and profoundly terrifying analysis of social media ever created for mass consumption, Jeff Orlowski’s “The Social Dilemma” does for Facebook what his previous documentaries “Chasing Ice” and “Chasing Coral” did for climate change (read: bring compelling new insight to a familiar topic while also scaring the absolute shit out of you). And while the film covers — and somehow manages to contain — a staggering breadth of topics and ramifications, one little sentence is all it takes to lay out the means and ends of the crisis at hand: Russia didn’t hack Facebook, Russia used Facebook." - Indiewire.com

WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR - “With his gentle voice and heartfelt words of wisdom, Fred Rogers served as a compassionate surrogate father for generations of American children who tuned in to public television. He believed in love as the essential ingredient in life and was able to assist kids through difficult situations armed merely with handmade puppets suggesting tolerance and acceptance. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Mr. Rogers made speaking directly and openly to children his life’s work, both on and off his long-running show. Animated sequences are peppered between archival footage of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and interviews with Fred Rogers’s family, friends, and colleagues, offering a deliberate and beautiful tribute to an authentic human being and providing a much-needed salve for these often-fraught times.”—Sundance Film Festival.

DARK MONEY - A century ago corrupt money scarred Montana’s democracy and landscape, but Montanans voted to prohibit corporate campaign contributions.Today, after the Citizens United ruling, dark money floods elections nationwide, but Montanans are standing up to stop history from repeating itself in a struggle that has the potential to change the way elections happen nationwide.

INVENTING TOMORROW follows four 2017 ISEF teams from around the world, celebrating their creativity and enthusiasm before, during and after the competition as they tackle some of the most complex environmental issues facing humanity today. At an international contest with about 1800 finalists from more than 75 countries, regions and territories, the stakes are high, but the heart of our story is not whether our characters go home with an award.

Empowering filmmakers, organizations, and engaged audiences to move their passion to action. [501(c)(4)]

Seattle, Washington

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.

In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk. Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Balog finds himself at the end of his tether. Battling untested technology in subzero conditions, he comes face to face with his own mortality. It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Design and production of custom electronic equipment.Microcontroller firmware/software consulting.

B.A.Sc., Systems Design Engineering, Computer Engineering Option

Activities and Societies: Ontario Engineering Design Competition, Honeywell Futurist Competition (1984)

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