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Jeff Orlowski

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Jeff Orlowski is the director, producer, and cinematographer of the award-winning films Chasing Coral and Chasing Ice. In 2017, Chasing Coral received the US Documentary Audience Award at Sundance, and in 2018 won a Peabody Award. Chasing Ice received the Documentary Cinematography award at Sundance in 2012 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Both films won an Emmy award, were shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, screened at Congress and the United Nations, and have many other awards and accolades from film festivals around the globe.

Orlowski founded Exposure Labs, a production company dedicated to impact through film. Exposure Labs has done extensive impact campaigns with their films, for which they received the 2016 BritDoc Impact Award and the 2018 the Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award. Orlowski was the inaugural Sundance Discovery Impact Fellow, received the United Nations Champion of the Earth Award, and holds two Guinness Book World Records. He also served as Producer on the 2015 film Frame By Frame.

He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with many plants that his roommate helps to keep alive.

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Film as Environmental Activism with Jeff Orlowski (CHASING CORAL)

With: Jeff Orlowski
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Film as Environmental Activism with Jeff Orlowski (CHASING CORAL)

With: Jeff Orlowski
Documentary director Jeff Orlowski has made significant impact awareness around climate change with his films CHASING ICE and CHASING CORAL. Hear how he uses emotional entry points to get audiences to connect to environmental topics.
FREE
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Spotlight: Creating Social Impact Through Storytelling with Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes (THE SOCIAL DILEMMA)

Advisor: Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes
$10

Spotlight: Creating Social Impact Through Storytelling with Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes (THE SOCIAL DILEMMA)

With: Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes
$10
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