Eyewitness Storytelling: A journey across both poles with After Antarctica subject Will Steger and the film crew, moderated by Peter B. de Menocal
After Antarctica follows polar explorer Will Steger's life journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes in the polar regions of our planet. Join Steger, filmmakers Tasha Van Zandt and Sebastian Zeck, and executive producer Sarah Pillsbury as they discuss the importance and impact of eyewitness stories about climate and our environment. Moderated by world renowned climate scientist Peter B. De Menocal.
Panelists:
Polar Explorer Will Steger has been a formidable voice calling for understanding and the preservation of the Arctic. Throughout over fifty years of exploration, he is the leading eyewitness to the most dramatic transformation of the world’s most hostile landscapes. In 1995, Steger joined the ranks of Amelia Earhart, Robert Peary, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in receiving the National Geographic Society’s John Oliver La Gorce Medal. He was the National Geographic Society's first Explorer-in-Residence, and in 2007, he received the prestigious National Geographic Adventure Lifetime Achievement Award. Having testified before the U.S. Congress on polar and environmental issues, he has become a recognized authority on polar environmental concerns. Steger continues to venture on groundbreaking expeditions, and founded and runs Climate Generation, a Minnesota-based nonprofit that empowers individuals to engage in climate change solutions. He is the author of Over the Top of the World, Crossing Antarctica, North to the Pole, and Saving the Earth.
Tasha Van Zandt is a globally focused director, cinematographer and Emmy-nominated producer who has traveled on assignment around the globe and to all seven continents. Her work has been commissioned by TIME Magazine, The Guardian, PBS, Netflix, HBO, and VICE. Her film One Thousand Stories, created in collaboration with renowned artist JR, has screened in festivals and museums around the world. She is a 2019 Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellow, a 2019 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab Fellow, a 2020 SFFILM Sloan Stories Of Science Fellow, a 2020 Film Independent Fast Track fellow and a 2020 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident.
Sebastian Zeck is a documentary filmmaker and producer. With a career beginning in social and environmental justice, he seeks to blend the craft of filmmaking and storytelling to effect social change. He recently edited the film The Chronicles of New York in collaboration with the artist JR. He has worked on projects for Netflix, HBO, and TIME Magazine. Sebastian is a 2019 Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellow, a 2020 Film Independent Fast Track Fellow and a 2020 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident.
Sarah Pillsbury is the producer and executive producer of many award-winning films and television series, including Desperately Seeking Susan, River’s Edge, And the Band Played On, Quid Pro Quo, and more. After Antarctica, which she executive-produced, is her most recent film.
Peter B. de Menocal is the eleventh president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. A marine geologist and paleoclimatologist, de Menocal’s research uses deep-sea ocean sediments as archives of how and why Earth’s ocean and climate have changed in the past in order to predict how they may change in the future. Prior to assuming leadership of WHOI, de Menocal was the Thomas Alva Edison/Con Edison Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He served as Columbia’s Dean of Science for the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and founded Columbia’s Center for Climate & Life, a climate solutions research accelerator.
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