AC Forum 2008: Environmental Filmmaking at its Best!
This is the third of our series profiling all the workshops held this year at the Alternative Channel Forum on Social Networking and Responsible Media. Each workshop features leading experts on the most interesting and controversial issues related to the new media's responsibility to social awareness and humanitarian causes. Register to attend now, or join us for LIVE BLOG coverage beginning with the first panel and lasting all day.
At 12.00 Robert Lamb will open the only workshop of the day to be conducted entirely in English and without translation. How to Make an Impact with Environmental Films? Few should know better than Robert Lamb.
Mr Lamb began his career in television as a graduate trainee with the BBC. He later joined the Earthscan team at the International Institute for Environment and Development and established, with Anil Agarwal, the first environmental news features service. At the beginning of the 1980s Lamb was with the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Switzerland as a communications chief; by the middle years of that decade he was a senior policy advisor to the UN Environment Programme. TVE Television Trust for the Environment was developed under his stewardship, and during his tenure as director there its films and news features won over 300 awards, including a Prix Italia and a Peabody Award.
His most recent projects include the annual World Challenge competition and the emerging Nature Inc. Click here to see a pilot of its new series.
Have an opinion, or a question you'd like to ask Mr Lamb? Leave a comment, and we'll seek answers on 30 April in Barcelona.
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