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JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES
2005 COMPETITION FINAL JURY
May 30, 2005, JACKSON, Wyo. 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 2005 Festival, slated for September 19-24
in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
JHWFF plays host to an unparalleled competition, celebrating
the finest examples of the art of natural history filmmaking.
To win an award in Jackson is prestigious. Hundreds of filmmakers
and broadcasters from around the world compete in 17 categories,
in addition to the Grand Teton Award (Best of Festival).
Finalists are announced late July, and winners are announced
and honored at the Awards Ceremony and Gala Celebration during
the Festival on Thursday, September 22.
This year’s final jury—Alison Argo, Richard Bangs,
Thom Beers, Tom Perlmutter and Alan Root—will select
the winners from 48 finalists in 16 categories. The final
judges for the “Best Achievement in Sound” category
are Emmy Award-winning mixers Michael Olman, Jerry Clemens
and Dave Concors.
Allison Argo: As a Producer, Director and Writer, Allison
Argo has won numerous awards including Emmy, duPont-Columbia,
Genesis, Chris, Cindy Gold, CINE Golden Eagle, Jackson Hole,
Missoula and Japan International Wildlife Film Festival awards.
Her films have received ten national Emmy nominations and
won five. Argo’s innovative documentaries include:
The Urban Gorilla, Keepers of the Wild, The Last Frog, Stolen
Treasures, Uninvited Guest, The Secret Life of Cats, Extraordinary
Dogs, Wisdom of the Wild and The Urban Elephant. Most recently
Argo completed a short film, Return to Freedom, about a wild
horse sanctuary in Central California. She is currently producing
a one-hour film for PBS’ NATURE series about Chimpanzees
and their complex history with humans.
Richard Bangs: Richard Bangs has written 13 books, including
the award-winning The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death,
and Transformation on Wild Water and more than 500 magazine
articles. He is an original adventure-travel trendsetter
and founding partner of America's oldest and largest adventure-travel
company, Mountain Travel Sobek. Bangs was also a founding
member of Microsoft's pioneering Internet channel, Mungo
Park, and part of the founding executive team of Expedia.com.
He served as president of Outward Bound and is currently
editor and producer of well-traveled.com.
Thom Beers: CEO and Executive Producer of Original Productions,
a premiere reality-based production company known for cutting
edge and provocative programming, Thom Beers is perhaps best
known today for his hit series Monster Garage, Biker Build-Off
and Monster House on Discovery and recognized in the industry
as a storyteller and an innovator. Premiering this spring
are new series including Deadliest Catch for Discovery, the
explosive BOOM! for Spike, Pulpit Masters and Ballroom Bootcamp
for The Learning Channe, and others. Beers founded Original
Productions just six years ago, after years as an executive
and producer for Turner Broadcasting and Paramount syndicated
television. Beers’ productions have have won a number
of Emmy's, Ace's, New York Film Festival Awards, Cine Golden
Eagles, Houston Worldfest Film Festival and National Education
Awards. He is a member of NATAS and IDA.
Tom Perlmutter: As Director General of the National Film Board of Canada's English
Program., Perlmutter oversees development and production of the NFB's English-language
film, videos, and multimedia productions. A veteran of the Canadian film and
television production industry, he is a prolific and successful champion of documentary
production, an advocate for responsible children's programming, and an instigator
of new initiatives in multimedia programming. Prior to joining the NFB, Perlmutter
co-founded Primitive Entertainment, a company dedicated to producing top quality
programming for domestic and international markets across all platforms. He created
and produced such acclaimed productions as: The Team, Dangerous Obsessions, Great
Summits of History, The Bible Unearthed, Teen Invasion, and The Trouble With
Boys. Perlmutter was Head of Development at CineNova Productions and Head of
Documentaries for Barna-Alper Productions.
Alan Root: Root has been making wildlife movies since he was a teenager, winning
scores of prestigious awards over a career spanning almost five decades, including
Lifetime Achievement Awards from JHWFF, Wildscreen, Filmmakers for Conservation
and NY Environmental Film Festival. He created Kenya’s foremost safari
operation, Root & Leakey Safaris, and Wildlife Services Ltd., the first private
organization to undertake wildlife research and the sustainable management and
utilization of wildlife populations. Piloting helicopters, hot air balloons and
airplanes for use in his filmmaking and wildlife research and conservation work,
Root has been mauled by a leopard, bitten in the hand by a deadly puff adder
snake, and bitten through the leg by a hippo and in the thigh by a male silverback
gorilla. Root sits on the boards of several Africa-based conservation organizations
and is currently in production on a feature film about the Grzimeks and their
fight to save the Serengeti.
Michael Olman, C.A.S.: A re-recording mixer for television and film since 1995,
Olman’s varied and extensive credit list includes 24, Desperate Housewives,
Hawaii, The Shield, Gilmore Girls, Threat Matrix, Profiler, Weapons of Mass Distraction,
Son of the Beach, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, The Pentagon Papers, Steven Spielberg’s
The Unfinished Journey and Dinosaur Planet. Michael has been nominated for three
Prime-Time Emmy awards, three M.P.S.E. Golden Reel awards, two Cinema Audio Society
(C.A.S.) awards, and one MIX Magazine TEC (Technical Excellence & Creativity)
award. In addition, he received the C.A.S. Award for Discovery Channel’s
When Dinosaurs Roamed America. An active professional in the sound community,
Michael is currently serving a third term on the Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences Sound Peer Group Executive Committee and is also a member of the Cinema
Audio Society’s Board of Directors.
Jerry Clemans: Jerald Clemans worked as a lighting technician and in sound before
joining CBS Sports road crew. He was one of two technical directors for the 1972
Olympics. He worked for various sound companies in the 1970s before starting
Sunwest Recording Studios, a post-production sound house in Hollywood. In 1979
Clemans moved to Compact Video, designing and building their sound department,
and later built Modern Sound where he worked as a re-recording engineer for episodic
shows such as McGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He now works for Echo
Sound Services. Clemans has been nominated for Emmy Awards 29 times and won for
the musical specials 30 Years of Sinatra and George Burns and John Denver: Together.
He has received Golden Reel Awards and a Cable Ace Award for a Rick Springfield
musical special. Jerry is currently serving his 2nd term on the Board of Governors
of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Dave Concors: Dave Concors’ album credits extend back over 20 years, including
engineering albums for Billy Idol, Donna Summer and numerous motion picture soundtracks.
Concors has been nominated for 6 Emmy Awards and 2 C.A.S awards. He has won 3
Emmys for mixing ER. He currently mixes ER and Third Watch.
The Film Competition for the eighth Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is still
accepting submissions through JUNE 13, 2005. Film Competition details & forms
are available on the website, http://www.jhfestival.org/competition/.
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