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Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Announces Final Jury
Jackson Hole, WY, May 28, 2003 – The Jackson
Hole Wildlife Film Festival is pleased to announce its selection
of the final jury that will determine the winners of the Film
Competition associated with the 2003 Festival, slated for
September 22-27 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. David Dugan,
Eugene Linden, Mary Jane McKinven, Cathe
Neukum and Victoria Stone will select the winners
from 51 finalists in 17 separate award categories. Over 650
entrants are expected in the prestigious competition.
David Dugan is Chairman of Windfall Films, an independent
production company, based in London, which has earned an international
reputation for producing innovative science, history and natural
history documentaries. Since forming the company with Ian
Duncan and Oliver Morse in 1987 Windfall has won dozens of
awards, including two Emmys, four Royal Television Society
and two Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival awards.
David worked for ten years in BBC Television's Science Department,
where he was a producer on Horizon. He also had a brief
spell in Boston at WGBH. Through Windfall he has directed
ten NOVA films and two American Experiences,
including: The Russian Right Stuff, a trilogy about
the history of the Russian space program and The Real Jurassic
Park, a film which explored the problems of Michael Crichton's
fantasy. He has been series producer or executive producer
on many projects for Discovery, PBS, NBC, Channel Four and
BBC. His most recent project is DNA, a five part series
which looks at the impact of the discovery of the double helix
fifty years ago. Currently he is embarking on a series with
the legendary Harvard biologist, E.O.Wilson and an exploration
of extreme cold, Absolute Zero.
Eugene Linden has been writing about science, technology,
the environment and humanity's relationship with nature in
books, articles and essays for 25 years. He is the recipient
of numerous journalism awards, including an Overseas Press
Club Citation for Excellence, two Genesis Awards for outstanding
writing about animal issues, and the American Geophysical
Union Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism.
He was also a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Between
1987 and 2001 Linden wrote many of TIME Magazine's
major stories on environment and nature. Linden's two recent
books, The Octopus and the Orangutan, and The Parrot's
Lament were both serialized in TIME. The Future
in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability was
described by the Rocky Mountain News as "the most
important book of the decade." Silent Partners
was cited as a notable book of 1986 by The New York Times.
In addition, he is the author of Affluence and Discontent,
The Alms Race, and Apes, Men, and Language.
Linden's books have been translated into thirteen languages.
Apart from his books, Linden has contributed articles to a
wide range of publications, including the Atlantic,
Smithsonian, The New York Times, Condé
Nast Traveler, The Wall Street Journal, Los
Angeles Times, Fortune, Inc., National Geographic,
and Foreign Affairs. He speaks widely about the future,
nature and the environment.
Mary Jane McKinven is an experienced commissioning
editor and communications executive, with a wide-ranging background
in public service media. Her background includes several management
roles at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), most recently
as director of science, natural history and explorations programming.
Responsible for editorial oversight of these program genres,
she worked with producers on many limited series and specials,
including The Living Edens and The Life of Birds
by David Attenborough and acted as liaison with ongoing series
such as NATURE, NOVA, and SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS. Other
positions at PBS included directorships for news and public
affairs, national press relations, and corporate information.
Before joining PBS she worked at National Public Radio, The
Miami Herald, and as an overseas officer of the U.S. Foreign
Service. She is currently serving as a public affairs specialist
with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Ms. McKinven
is a graduate of Cornell University, and started her career
in university press publishing at MIT Press and Harvard University
Press. She is a past member of the advisory board to the Office
of Public Understanding of Science of the National Academy
of Sciences.
Cathe Neukum has been producing compelling documentary
programming for close to twenty years. Formerly a vice president
for Turner Original Productions and Executive Producer of
Wild!Life Adventures, an award-winning series on TBS dedicated
to conservation and wildlife, Neukum is now developing and
creating innovative documentary programming, with a slant
toward popular culture and the concerns and issues of the
natural world. Neukum also served as supervising producer
for MTV News and Specials, and produced several projects for
PBS. From 1979 to 1989, Neukum worked for the BBC, New York
Office starting as a researcher and leaving as a producer/director
and reporter. Neukum holds a B.F.A. in film and video from
The Cooper Union. Her awards include a Cine Golden Eagle and
two Genesis Awards. In 2002, Neukum founded a non-profit company,
Urban Cat League dedicated to helping New York City’s
homeless cat population and she serves on the advisory board
of Chimp Haven Inc., a sanctuary for retired research chimpanzees.
Victoria Stone, in partnership with her husband, Mark
Deeble, has filmed, produced, directed and written award winning
wildlife documentaries for almost 20 years. Acclaimed for
their intimate portraits of creatures and eco-systems, Deeble
& Stone spend years in remote bush camps, capturing rare
animal behavior to portray the complex and intricate web of
life. Their films have won over 100 international awards,
including more than 10 "Wildlife Oscars," an Emmy,
a Peabody and many "best of festival" awards. They
have attracted huge audiences for Survival Anglia, National
Geographic Television and BBC.
Holding a first class BA degree in photography and an MA on
the same subject from the Royal College of Art in London,
Vicky is a licensed pilot and diver. Deeble & Stone, with
their two sons, are currently in production in a remote camp
in Kenya for eighteen months, filming a high definition project
focusing on the life of a fig tree. At the same time they
are in development on a 3D-HD project for theatrical release.
Deeble and Stone's films are driven by their commitment to
wildlife conservation and education. They believe that wildlife
films can have a life beyond television. To that end, they
work closely with Kenya Wildlife Service, ensuring that their
films are translated into Kiswahili and distributed to schools
and local communities. The Kenyan video rights are donated
to KWS so that all profits go to conservation/education.
The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is a non-profit organization
whose primary mission is: "To encourage the production
of natural history programming around the world by providing
nonfiction filmmakers and broadcasters with an international
film forum to conduct business, test new equipment, refine
program production techniques and continue to seek new and
more effective ways to promote awareness and sensitivity to
wildlife and wildlife habitats." With some 800 industry
professionals participating in the biennial, week-long festival
and over 650 entrants in the film competition, the event hosted
by the organization is considered the most prestigious event
of the natural history film genre. The Jackson Hole Wildlife
Film Festival is sponsored by 21 global organizations. They
range from major broadcasting corporations and production
companies to post-production houses and conservation organizations.
The Festival's Board of Directors includes: Animal Planet,
BBC Natural History Unit, Crawford Communications, Discovery
Channel, Dolby Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Company, ERWDA,
Fujinon, Granada Wild, LaserPacific Media Corporation, Lobo
Media Productions, National Geographic Television, National
Wildlife Federation, Natural History New Zealand, Nature/WNET,
NHK/Japanese Broadcasting, ORF/Austrian Television, Panasonic
Broadcast and Television Systems, Sony Electronics, the Turner
Foundation, and Writer’s Guild of America, west.
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