Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival & Conservation Summit

As Sr. Director of Programming and Development for PBS, Pamela A. Aguilar identifies, develops and oversees the production of original content and acquisitions for Primetime in the genres of science, history, natural history, culture, and independent film. She has overseen such projects... Read More →

Tracy Beckett is the Director of Program and Media Acquisitions for PBS International.  She is responsible for acquiring documentaries to bring into the PBS International catalog for the sales team to sell to other broadcasters around the world.  Further, she is responsible for... Read More →

Gavin is an award-winning producer making shows for both the BBC and the independent sector, from filming mountain gorillas with Sigourney Weaver to chasing mammoths across Siberia. Gavin specializes in popular natural history and his recent credits include Monkeys Revealed, Natural... Read More →

John Cavanagh is an executive producer for Smithsonian Channel, where he produces a range of specials and series, including natural history, history and science programming.  Before joining Smithsonian in 2016, he spent 8 years at Discovery Communications across everything from blue... Read More →

Jorge Franzini has produced and written a wide range of highly acclaimed documentaries for CuriosityStream, including its first original series Destination: Pluto, its first 4K series Underwater Wonders of the National Parks, and the award-nominated Jason Silva special Transhumanism... Read More →

As Executive Producer for Nat Geo WILD, Ashley Hoppin oversees some 80 hours of original programming per year.  These hours cover a wide range of topics including natural history, reality, science and adventure. Highlights include highly-acclaimed specials Wild Yellowstone, Kingdom... Read More →

Over the past 14 years, Emre has developed, produced, filmed, and directed multiple award-winning documentaries for National Geographic, PBS, Netflix, Discovery, History, ID, MSNBC, and TLC. His films include one-off specials and wildlife series ranging in topics from crime to health... Read More →

Tetsunori Kikuchi joined NHK in 1992. He has been working on numerous natural-history productions. He was engaged in the series program, "Satoyama", which portrays beautiful relationship between human and nature in Japanese countryside. Now he is a series producer of NHK's 30-minute... Read More →

Mike Olcott is an award-winning producer of short-form video and documentary films. Since 2015, he’s led a prolific digital team at National Geographic creating content in support of the NG Society, NG Channel, Kids, Education and Brand Marketing teams. Whether writing fast-paced... Read More →

Since 2004 Birgit has written, directed and presented natural history and wildlife documentaries for ARD, NDR, BR and ORF. In 2007 Birgit was writer/director of the BBC/NDR coproduction Pacific Abyss. She co-presented the three-part series "Adventure Ocean" (ARD/NDR) and the... Read More →

 Originally from Puerto Rico, JP serves as Director of Social Video for National Geographic. For the past six years he worked as a producer, cinematographer and editor for National Geographic producing content for their digital and social platforms as well as TV content. Combining... Read More →

Melanie Wallace is the Senior Series Producer for NOVA, the most highly recognized science documentary series on television in the United States, now approaching its 45th season, In that role, Melanie is connected to all aspects of production and works closely with Senior Executive... Read More →

Roger has worked at the BBC Natural History Unit for 21 years and has been Series Editor of the award-winning Natural World strand since 2013. He is passionate about wildlife broadcasting, constantly striving for excellence. Roger’s experience is broad, taking in Springwatch, Planet... Read More →