Jeff Orlowski
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Jeff Orlowski-Yang is an American
Life and career
Born and raised in Staten Island, New York, Orlowski-Yang attended Stuyvesant High School where he served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Spectator.[1]
At the age of 18, Orlowski-Yang moved to California to study anthropology at Stanford University.[citation needed] In his senior year at Stanford, he joined environmental photographer James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, a time-lapse photography project monitoring glacier retreat around the world. Hired first as the team's videographer, he eventually went on to direct the documentary Chasing Ice based on Balog's work.[citation needed]
The feature-length documentary received international acclaim, screening on all seven continents and capturing more than 40 awards from film festivals around the world.
In 2009, Orlowski-Yang founded Exposure Labs, a production company geared toward socially relevant filmmaking. In 2015, he produced the film Frame by Frame, which premiered at South by Southwest and tells the story of four Afghan photojournalists working to build a free press following decades of war and an oppressive Taliban regime.[3][citation needed]
In January 2016, Orlowski-Yang received the inaugural Sundance Institute | Discovery Impact Fellowship for environmental filmmaking.[4][citation needed]
In 2017, Orlowski-Yang released
In 2020, Orlowski-Yang directed The Social Dilemma in collaboration with the Center for Humane Technology about the damaging societal impact of social media.[citation needed]
Chasing Ice
Chasing Ice is a 2012 documentary chronicling environmental photographer James Balog's quest to capture images, through the Extreme Ice Survey, a long-term photography project monitoring 24 of the world's glaciers through 43 time-lapse cameras, that will help tell the story of the changes in Earth's climate brought on by global warming.[7]
The documentary includes scenes from a glacier calving event that took place at
Filmography
- The Social Dilemma (director) (2020)
- Chasing Coral (director) (2017)
- Frame by Frame (producer) (2015)
- Bad Kid (producer) (2013)
- Chasing Ice (director and producer) (2012)
- The Strange Case of Salman abd al Haqq (director and producer) (2007)
- Geocaching: From the Web to the Woods (director and producer) (2006)
Awards
- Jeff Orlowski is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award (Champions of the Earth) in 2017.[11]
References
- ^ "The Stuyvesant Spectator".
- ^ "Chasing Ice | Awards".
- ^ "Home". framebyframethefilm.com.
- ^ "Jeff Orlowski Named First Sundance Institute | Discovery Impact Fellow – Discovery, Inc".
- ^ "Q&A: Catching up with Jeff Orlowski, the Filmmaker Who Made Art Out of Climate Change".
- ^ "Chasing Coral".
- ^ "The Film".
- ISBN 9781910561065.
- ^ "Chasing Ice : A New Documentary Melts a Climate Change Skeptic's Heart". HuffPost. 22 November 2012.
- ^ "Chasing Ice movie review & film summary (2012) | Roger Ebert".
- ^ "Jeff Orlowski, filmmaker and UN Environment Champion of the Earth". Champions of the Earth. 14 January 2020.
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