For more than 40 years, tve has pioneered environmental filmmaking, helping bring vital stories about our planet and how to protect it to millions around the world.

 
André Singer is both filmmaker and anthropologist originally making films for World in Action and Disappearing World. He devised and produced the environmental series Battle for the Planet for C4 and wrote the book to accompany it. For the BBC, he founded the documentary series Fine Cut (which later became Storyville) where he first linked up with Werner Herzog  subsequently playing a role on sixteen of Werner’s films including Into the Inferno and Fireball : Visitors from Darker Worlds; and co-Directing Meeting Gorbachev. As an Executive Producer he worked on Josh Oppenheimer’s Oscar nominated films The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.  As a director he was awarded the Peabody and Emmy for his film Night Will Fall, and in 2016 completed an anti-nuclear film Where the Wind Blew which won the Raven Award for best feature documentary at DocUtah.    

James works in businesses and initiatives around climate change and restoring biodiversity. He’s on the board of Vertis Environmental Finance, an emissions trading firm, and cofounder of Zsamboki Biokert, Planet League, Flite Protein and Wild Power, (struggling) start-ups doing innovative things in climate action. He wrote Climate Change for Football Fans. 

Jessica has worked in the film and broadcast industry in the UK and India for 20 years, working on films such as Lagaan and Slumdog Millionaire. She wrote a bestselling book on Bollywood called Looking for the Big B: Bollywood, Bachchan and Me. She founded a content company that worked with India's film and sport megastars including Sachin Tendulkar, Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, creating branded licensable content for mobile and web.

Jessica is an expert in the overlap between politics, action and entertainment. She has led creative projects on climate change, renewable energy, air pollution and avoidable blindness in the UK, USA and India. Her passion is finding ways of using culture to create access to new audiences, for example working with comedians to push climate change messaging into Republican audiences in Middle America on Funny or Die. Jessica is the co-founder of Fingerprint Content. 

Andrew Griffiths is Director of Community & Partnerships at PlanetMark, who certify organisations for carbon reduction and the creation of social value. He is Chair of the Institute of Directors National Sustainability Taskforce and also collaborates with Disney’s former Head of Innovation & Creativity on delivering Innovation Masterclasses all over the world.

Liz Perkins is the night news editor of the Daily Express. She has worked across the national press from the Daily Telegraph to the Sunday Times. Liz has won awards for her journalism and has been recognised for her work in her law-changing, “End This Injustice” campaign in the Daily Express. She has reported from Afghanistan and broke the exclusive on sexism and misogyny in the Welsh Rugby Union.

Ghaamid is a UN multi award winning Ecohydrologist and a National Geographic Explorer. He is the Executive Director of Tanzania Biodiversity Organization, a non-profit focused on the National policy advocacy on Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. He founded the Conserve Afrika Media which is a platform for Sciencetelling stories and films of the most vulnerable climate impacted continent. Addtionally he co directs EARTHDAY.ORG in Africa advocating for climate education in African governments.

Judith is an Executive Director in the Media Banking Office at Coutts & Co, a leading private bank with a specialist media division involved in all areas of the media and creative industries including film, television, music, theatre, arts, games, advertising, marketing services, publishing, tech and fashion.  She heads up its business development for the team, originating new business, developing new products and specialises in structuring film and television debt transactions.  Judith has over twenty-five years’ experience in media financing, starting her career at an investment bank in Los Angeles where she spearheaded the Bank’s involvement with the independent film and television sectors, followed by Ingenious Media where she managed three equity funds principally investing in film and television content, and over 15 years with the Media team at Coutts.

Judith is currently a Trustee of Film London, The National Film and Television School Foundation, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, The Resilient Foundation and a Development Board member of the National Youth Theatre.

Steve has written for many years on travel, business, wildlife and climate change. As chief reporter for the Society of Environmental Authors & Journalists, he covers major events in, for example, film, conservation and travel. Personally, he has published a number of books under his TheLonePenguin imprint. He also writes and produces nature-based documentaries. Steve serves as chairman of the Sacred Nature Initiative. 

Massimiliano Mazzotta is the Reporter & Artistic Director of LIFE AFTER OIL International Film Festival. Almost a decade ago he released his investigative documentary on a refinery in southern Sardinia (Italy).