Technology and DEIB: Social Dilemma
Join Dr. Fadia Nordtveit and Jeff Orlowski-Yang in conversation about Social Dilemma.
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Jeff Orlowski
Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski-Yang served as director, producer, and cinematographer of the Sundance Award-Winning films, Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral. He is a two-time Emmy-Award winning filmmaker, and founder of the award-winning production company Exposure Labs. His latest film, The Social Dilemma, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix.
In 2017, after premiering at Sundance and receiving the US Documentary Award, Chasing Coral released globally on Netflix as a Netflix Original Documentary. It went on to win a Peabody award in 2018. Chasing Ice premiered at Sundance in 2012, received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Song and won an Emmy® award for Outstanding Nature Programming. Both films have received many additional awards and accolades at film festivals around the globe, including being shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Orlowski-Yang also produced and directed Chasing Coral: The VR Experience, his first venture into virtual reality filming.
Orlowski-Yang founded Exposure Labs to maximize the impact of film, creating a company dedicated to both quality storytelling and powerful campaigns. For work on Chasing Ice, Exposure Labs won the 2016 BritDoc Impact Award recognizing “documentaries that have made the biggest impact on society.” Currently, the impact campaign featuring Chasing Coral is connecting the story in the film to action in communities with over 1000 screenings in more than 87 countries and the film won the 2018 the Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award.
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Exposure Labs
Exposure Labs is a film and impact production company based in Boulder, Colorado, ancestral home of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho people, with team members nationwide. Through a unique model where content production and social advocacy are tightly entwined, we share and support stories that uncover systems in need of change, visualize what’s at stake, and incite empathy, action and accountability. We function as a disrupter, dot-connector and bridge-builder, exposing extractive and divisive power structures while also shining light on the pathways and people leading us forward.
Jeff's Films
