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Galapagos Evolving

GALAPAGOS EVOLVING
(7 minutes) Ecuador/USA
Director/Producer: Michele Zaccheo

Description:
Known to some as "nature's lab," the Galapagos Islands are a unique ecological haven. Forty-eight islands of hardened lava in the Pacific Ocean, 1000km from the South American continent. Among the rocks and under the waters there are plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. In the 1830s this pristine, isolated ecosystem allowed Charles Darwin to make his discoveries about the origin-and evolution-of species. But in today's globalized world, the Galapagos is in danger.

Biography:
Michele Zaccheo shot, co-directed and edited River People, a PBS documentary that won numerous awards, including: The David Wolper International Documentary Association Award (1991) and Best Video Award at the American Indian Film Festival. American Cinematographer also highly praised the photography of this documentary. In 1992 Zaccheo shot Sin City Diary, a documentary about prostitutes around a U.S. Navy base in the Philippines, and his latest work, Vidioms, screened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Zaccheo's freelance photography includes: PBS' European Journal, KCET Los Angeles and the Learning Channel. In 1999 he was the principal photographer for the critically acclaimed documentary, American Gypsy. Zaccheo also taught video workshops to documentary students at UC Berkeley and San Francisco's Film Arts Foundation. He currently works for the United Nations media department, where he recently produced a documentary on the history of human rights.

Contact Information:
Caroline Petit
United Nations
40 Rm S-805 A
405 E 42 St Cor 1st Ave
New York, NY 10017
E-mail:petitc@un.org
Web site: http://www.unmultimedia.org
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©2008 United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF)
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