Phylis Geller

Phylis Geller will speak after her film Coal Country.  She is president of Norman Star Media, a media production and consulting company in Washington, DC. Geller has been a media executive and producer for thirty years. She has overseen programs in all genres, including history, science, drama, performance and children's programs. Projects under her supervision have won the most prestigious awards in broadcasting. Ms. Geller is a graduate of Smith College. She is married to Frederick Pollack, poet and adjunct professor at George Washington University.

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.

Wade Davis

Wade Davis is an explorer-in-residence at National Geographic Society and will speak after the film Light at the Edge of the World: Heart of the Amazon.  An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Wade Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology, and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, from Harvard University. Davis spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among 15 indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6,000 botanical collections. Author of ten books, including "The Serpent and the Rainbow", "One River", and "Light at the Edge of the World", he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lowell Thomas Medal (Explorers Club) and the Lannan Foundation $125,000 prize for literary nonfiction. In 2004 he was made an Honorary Member of the Explorers Club, one of 20 so named in the 100-year history of the club.