The Island President
Feature documentary
Audio Recordist + Second Camera + Associate Producer
Produced by Actual Films, distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films
Film Website: The Island President
Still photography: The Maldives
The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.
The Island President captures Nasheed’s first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his strategies—leveraging the Maldives’ underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations. When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change.
Imagine Entertainment
Apple Computers
National Geographic
Google
Jigsaw Productions
RedBull Media House
Participant Films
NOVA
Radical Media
Al Jazeera
The Guardian
Outside Magazine
Florentine Films/Ken Burns
Actual Films
Disney
Discovery
Rock and Ice
Adobe
Subaru
National Forest Service
National Park Service
Associated Press
Nestle
Patagonia
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– External links to current posted work –
National Geographic: Rebuilding Paradise
(Feature Documentary – Director of Photography)
HBO: The Inventor, Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
(Feature Documentary – Cinematography)
Netflix: Athlete A
(Feature Documentary – Additional Cinematography)
Red Bull: A Snow Ball’s Chance in Hell
(Feature Documentary – Climbing Videographer/Photographer)
Telling Pictures: State of Pride
(Feature Documentary – Cinematography)
Fault Lines: Cross Border Killings
(Television Documentary – Director of Photography)
National Geographic: Khumbu Climbing Center
(Editorial Profile – Photographer)
Cinematographer + Photographer + Director
Partner/Owner Novus Select : Production Company + Photography Assignment Agency
Climbing Ranger in Yosemite National Park after studying philosophy at Yale before telling stories with cameras = sees the world as a jungle-gym, believes questioning one’s beliefs is as important as the beliefs themselves, and openly admits to loving his life
Was recently inspired by Banksy, and The Waiting Room
It’s not the camera; it’s where you point it. But he tends to like ARRI, Canon, Sony, and kneepads.