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Akanksha Sood
Akanksha Sood is among India's premiere multi-award winning natural history filmmakers. With two decades of work experience, her work covers the range and breadth of film production, documenting some of the most rare and endangered species across India and bringing them to the audience globally. Her films have been televised across theworld, not just for the strong stories and breathtaking visuals, but also for the empathy her work has created towards the natural world and exposed the need for conservation. Among the 250+ awards and nominations, she has won four National Film Awards given by the President of India, a UN Film Award, and recently, the Diversity Leadership Award by the World Congress of Factual Producers. She is also one of the Jurors for the International Emmy ® Awards – Documentary category and a member of the Advisory Group to Jackson Wild. |
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Lisa Truitt
Lisa traveled the globe as a filmmaker and executive at National Geographic, and her award-winning work has been seen on television, cinema screens, giant screens, and planetariums. She turned entrepreneur as a managing partner and chief creative officer for the start-up that built “National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey”, a groundbreaking, interactive tourist attraction in the heart of Manhattan. Among her latest projects, she is working with a new generation of storytellers, creating the African Conservation Voices program with AWF and Jackson Wild. |
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Michael Cain
Michael is President & Executive Producer of M3 Films, a film company focused on creating Media with a Mission. He co-founded the company in 2003 and has gained recognition for award-winning documentaries with socially relevant content. He is a champion of filmmakers and their visions. Michael directed and produced the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury prize documentary, TV Junkie. HBO's award-winning Addiction Series included the Film. He has produced more than twenty feature films and executive produced and developed over 42 programs for EARTHxTV. Since 1999, he has founded and led multiple film festivals, including the Deep Ellum Film Festival, Santa Monica International Film Festival, Best of Fests North Texas, AFI DALLAS, and the Dallas International Film Festival. In 2016, he co-founded EarthxFilm along with Trammell S. Crow and served as President through 2021. During this time, the Festival showcased over 300 environmental films. This team launched EarthxTV, a platform for balanced, inclusive, environmental conversations, programs, emerging media & films in 2020. Michael is currently launching new media initiatives which change people's hearts and minds toward positive solutions. |
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Natalie Cash
Natalie Cash is the Executive Producer in charge of video production at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), an international conservation organization founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society. With three decades of experience in the industry, Cash produces short-form programming about WCS projects and stories for multiple platforms. Cash is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and serves on the Board of the New York WILD Film Festival and the Advisory Council of Jackson Wild. Prior to joining WCS, she was a series producer and writer at the Emmy Award-winning documentary production company Pangolin Pictures. |
Sound
Sponsored by the Television Academy Sound Peer Group
Bob Bronow, CAS
Bob is a 3-time Primetime Emmy Award winning sound mixer with an additional 11 nominations. His recent projects include: Genius: Einstein and Picasso and fourteen seasons of Deadliest Catch. He currently serves on the Board of Governors at the Television Academy and on the Cinema Audio Society's Board of Directors. |
Frank Morrone, C.A.S
Frank is a 2-time Primetime Emmy Award mixer with an additional five Emmy nominations. Television projects include Criminal Minds, Lost and The Kennedys. He has mixed films with Ron Howard, Tim Burton, John Singleton and Lasse Hallstrom on projects including Ransom, Sleepy Hollow, Shaft, The Cider House Rules and the Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings. He currently serves on the Cinema Audio Society's Board of Directors. |
Karol Urban, CAS
Karol is a sound mixer and editor with over 20-years’ experience in television and film. She is co-owner of Urban Audio Post. She started her career focusing principally on documentaries. She now enjoys mixing scripted productions, where she has been a mixer for the past 8 year on Grey’s Anatomy, amongst many other shows. She currently serves and the President of the Cinema Audio Society. |
