Friis Arne Petersen

Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen will introduce the film One Degree Matters. Ambassador Petersen presented his credentials to then President George W. Bush on October 3, 2005, as the Ambassador of Denmark to the United States. Ambassador Petersen has had a distinguished and outstanding career in the Danish Foreign Service, serving on the staff of two Danish Foreign Ministers and holding various senior positions as Permanent Secretary of State and Undersecretary.

Josh Fox

Josh Fox is the director and writer of GasLand. He will speak after his film screens at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Raised in Milanville, PA and New York City, his work is committed to socially conscious themes and subjects. Fox is the founder and Artistic Director of International WOW Company, a film and theater company that works closely with actors and non-actors from diverse cultural backgrounds from around the world. His company creates new work that addresses social and political crises in our nation and across the globe.   

Evan Mather

Evan Mather will speak after his film A Necessary Ruin: The Story of Buckminster Fuller and the Union Tank Car Dome.  Mather is an American filmmaker and landscape architect.  His films have screened at dozens of festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Rotterdam, One Reel, and as part of the Independent Exposure touring microcinema series; featured on National Public Radio and in publications including Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Wired, and RES; and broadcast on the Sundance Channel and Documentary Channel. In 2002 a retrospective of his work played at the Seattle Art Museum. His 2007 film So What? received the 2008 Communications Award of Honor from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Evan lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.