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Atossa Soltani

Atossa Soltani is the founder and board president of Amazon Watch and served as the organization’s first Executive Director for 18 years. Currently Atossa is the director of global strategy for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative, working to protect one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth.

Megha Agrawal Sood

Megha Agrawal Sood is Director of Programs at Exposure Labs, the film and impact production company behind Chasing Ice Chasing Coral, The Social Dilemma; and Co Founder of The Climate Story Lab.

Philip Stoddard

Philip Stoddard is the former Mayor of the City of South Miami (2010-2020). Philip is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Florida International University.

Paul Straub

Paul Straub is Co-founder & Managing Partner of Wireframe Ventures, where he invests in founders solving challenges around climate, environmental sustainability and human health. He leads Wireframe’s investments in OpenInvest, Span.IO, LevelTen Energy, Full Harvest Technologies, Electriphi, Xtelligent.io and Near Space Labs.

Vijay Swarup

Vijay Swarup is the Vice President of Research and Development at ExxonMobil. As the vice president of research and development, he leads a team of scientists and engineers in developing ways to improve supply options of the world’s energy resources, as well as advance carbon capture technology, biofuels and alternative energy.

Michael L. Ulica

As president and chief operating officer at the National Geographic Society, Michael Ulica implements the institution’s global strategy, which invests in groundbreaking scientists, explorers, educators, and storytellers to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world. Ulica also oversees the Society’s day-to-day operations.

Manari Ushigua

Manari Ushigua is from the Sápara Nation in the Ecuadorian Amazon, of which there are less than 500 people remaining. He is a traditional healer and leader—the akameno (authority)—of his nationality.

V (formerly known as Eve Ensler)

V is a playwright, activist, and best selling author of The Vagina Monologues, In the Body of the World and The Apology, she is also founder of two global movements to end violence against women and girls: VDAY and One Billion Rising.

Ellen van den Honert

Ellen van den Honert, a native of the Netherlands, always knew she would be a singer. She studied piano early on and then jazz voice at the Dutch Conservatory of Music, sang gospel at Glide Church in San Francisco, and teamed up with renowned Bay Area producer Frank Martin to record Breath of the Soul, Ellen’s first CD.

Marilyn Waite

Marilyn Waite leads the climate and clean energy finance portfolio at the Hewlett Foundation. She has worked across four continents in renewable and nuclear energy and venture capital and investment.

Danni Washington

Danni Washington is a TV host and Science Communicator who is also the first African American woman/woman of color to host her own science television series. Currently, Danni is featured as a correspondent on a weekly nationally syndicated CBS series called Mission Unstoppable

U.S. Representative Bruce Westerman

U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman is a Hot Springs native currently serving his third term as representative from the Fourth District of Arkansas. Westerman serves on the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, where he is Ranking Member of the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse was elected U.S. Senator for Rhode Island in November of 2006. He is a member of the Budget Committee; the Environment and Public Works Committee; the Judiciary Committee; and the Finance Committee.

Dr. Katharine Wilkinson

Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is lead writer of Drawdown, the New York Times bestseller about climate solutions, and its sequel, The Drawdown Review. Her forthcoming book is a co-edited collection of writings by women climate leaders — All We Can Save

Justin Winters

Justin Winters is the Executive Director of Earth’s Call Fund, a new philanthropic initiative to bring much-needed resources to communities, organizations, and youth leaders on the frontlines of the climate crisis. She is also Co-Founder of One Earth.

Erika Woolsey

Erika Woolsey is a marine biologist, designer, VR filmmaker, National Geographic Explorer, visiting scholar at the Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and CEO and co-founder of The Hydrous, a nonprofit devoted to translating marine science into public understanding.

Wyland

Marine Life Artist and conservationist Wyland has been a leading advocate for marine resource conservation for more than three decades. He is best known for his Whaling Walls, a series of 100 monumental marine life murals that were donated on behalf of the artist to cities around the world.

Elise Zoli

With a keen sense of the clean energy and water markets and opportunities, Elise Zoli provides strategic advice to leading global enterprises. Elise focuses on the acquisition, development, financing, and operation of clean energy, water, and related infrastructure projects totaling in excess of 14 GW and a trillion gallons.

EarthxFilm is thrilled to partner with the Dallas International Film Festival, powered by Capital One (DIFF). All eyes from the local, regional, national and international film and environmental communities will be in Dallas this April 2020.

This partnership joins the largest film festival in North Texas, DIFF, with EarthxFilm, the leader in the environmental film festival space in the Southwest, to screen 180+ films from an estimated 40 countries. The following is the schedule for EarthxFilm showtimes.

For more information about and our full program, please visit EarthxFilm.org.