Michael Love
From Golf Course to Wetland
Sat. 3:45pm • Gates Foss CenterQ/A Following
Sat. 7:00pm • Gates Foss Center Panelist:
The Role of Filmmaking
in Land Preservation
Sun. 10:45am
Global Eye Art Collective Courtyard 2018 NTFF:
The Snowy Plover and You
As a natural history filmmaker Michael has made two feature documentaries and several shorts: Bringing Back the Wild: Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve and The Santa Ynez River Wilderness (2012). Short natural history films include The Snowy Plover and You (2016), Devereux Slough (2017), Breakthrough (2016), The Western Snowy Plover: Natural History and Recovery (2016).
Chris Smead
The High Sierra Trail
Sat. 10:45am • Gates Foss CenterQ/A Following Panelist:
Young and Emerging Filmmakers
Sat. 12:30pm
Global Eye Art Collective Courtyard 2018 NTFF:
Rae Lakes – A Film Documentary
In 2018 Chris founded Outmersive Films and along with his new colleagues, released the 39-minute film, The High Sierra Trail, which scored over a dozen festival laurels. Chris and his team are currently working on an ambitious feature length film called Highline about a 10-day trek through the mountains of Utah. Joining Chris will be John Cornell, who hiked with him along the High Sierra trail.
Andrew Schoneberger
Lean Against the Wind
Fri. 8:15pm • GrangeQ/A Following Panelist:
Young and Emerging Filmmakers
Sat. 12:30pm
Global Eye Art Collective Courtyard 2018 NTFF:
Bruhwiler Country
Lindsey Ross: A Less Convenient Path.
Andrew is a filmmaker and photographer with a degree in studio art from UC Santa Barbara. After graduating in 2005, he spent most of the remaining decade playing professional water polo around the world, but the desire to pursue a more creative life called him home to Santa Barbara, California, where he and director Keith Malloy founded and operate Bimarian Films.
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Cory Trépanier
Into the Arctic: Awakening
Sat. 1:00pm • GrangeQ/A Following Featured Presenter:
Spotlight Dinner
Sat. 5:30pm
Reservations required. $75 Panelist:
The Role of Filmmaking
in Land Preservation
Sun. 10:45am
Global Eye Art Collective Courtyard
In 2001, Cory Trépanier began filming his artistic expeditions in to the Canadian Arctic, leading to four televised documentaries: A Painter’s Odyssey, Into the Arctic: An Artist’s Journey to the North, Into the Arctic II (nominated for a Canadian Screen Award) and True Wild: Kluane. His fifth film, Into the Arctic: Awakening, had its first pre-release screening in Monaco before Prince Albert II. Cory’s films are broadcast in Canada and internationally.
Boston Jade Fitzpatrick
Natural Flow
Sat. 10:30am • GrangeQ/A Following Demonstration:
Freestyle Football
Sat. 12:30pm
Lavinia Campbell Park
Boston is the youngest filmmaker in the 2019 NatureTrack Film Festival. A local 17-year old senior from the Santa Ynez Valley, Boston directed and produced Natural Flow while in Iceland. As the Youth Panna (street soccer) Champion of the U.S., Boston gets inspiration from landscapes for the moves he uses for his tricks.
Matthew Testa
The Human Element
Sat. 1:45pm • Gates Foss CenterQ/A Following Panelist:
The Role of Filmmaking
in Land Preservation
Sun. 10:45am
Global Eye Art Collective Courtyard
Testa’s previous films and nonfiction series include Freedom! The Movie for CMT Docs, Snake Salvation (National Geographic), Whale Wars (Animal Planet), Storm Chasers (Discovery) and The First 48 (A&E). His first film was the ITVS-funded environmental documentary, The Buffalo War, which aired nationally on PBS, toured festivals and won nine awards.
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James Currie
Last of the Big Tuskers
Sun. 11:15am • GrangeQ/A Following
From 2004-2007 James worked as the Managing Director of Africa Foundation, a non-profit organization that directs its efforts towards the upliftment of communities surrounding wildlife areas in Africa. He has extensive experience in African wildlife, including walking game on foot. James has contributed to several publications, including the acclaimed Southern African Birdfinder and Wildwatch and his first book, When Eagles Roar was published in October 2014. James produced his first full-length wildlife documentary, Last of the Big Tuskers, in early 2018.
John Dutton
The Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle
Fri. 6:15pm • GrangeQ/A Following
Sun. 2:45pm • Gates Foss Center
John is a British-Austrian-American award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Over the past 20 years he has traveled from the remotest beaches of Indonesia and the Solomon Islands to the bustling red carpets of Hollywood, serving as Director, Producer, Cameraman, Editor and Writer on a diverse series of documentaries and films. With a background in biology and geology and a fascination for science and conservation, John produces science and wildlife films for NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration), U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, the Smithsonian Institute, as well as for NGO’s such as WWF, Wildcoast International, Ocean Ecology Network, ProNatura and The Nature Conservancy.
Chris Metzler
Rodents of Unusual Size
Sat. 9:00am • St. Mark’s Stacy HallQ/A Following
Award winning non-fiction filmmaker Chris Metzler, along with fellow award winning filmmakers Quinn Costello and Jeff Springer have traveled to many corners of the world in search of unique stories highlighting the important environmental, scientific and cultural issues of contemporary society. With the success of documentary projects as varied as PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA, THE NEW ENVIRONMENTALISTS and EVERYDAY SUNSHINE: THE STORY OF FISHBONE they have gone on to screen their work at SXSW and Tribeca along with national TV broadcasts on PBS and the Sundance Channel.
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Canek Kelly
D. plexippus
Sat. 3:45pm • Gates Foss CenterQ/A Following
Sun. 9:15am • Grange
Dani Rodriguez
Trail Heads
Sat. 10:30am • GrangeQ/A Following
First time Director, Dani Rodriguez, has a passion for the outdoors and filmmaking. Seeing those two worlds collide by highlighting two communities that mean a lot to her was the perfect finish to her college career. With several short films under her belt, directing and writing a film that highlights the community she has grown to call home was incredibly special.
Jim Wilmer
Executive Producer
Water
Sat. 3:15pm • GrangeQ/A Following
Sat. 7:00pm • Gates Foss Center
Jim Wilmer is the co-founder of Window Channel Network (now Sharecare Windows) and a former Advertising Agency executive who ran Wilmer Communications in Seattle for 20 years. Jim is not only the Executive Producer for Sharecare Windows, but he also has directed over 75 short films and videos. He and his wife Linda reside in Sedona Arizona.
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