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David Alberts
Founder, What On Earth Is Going On?
Over the past 15 years David has lived in four continents and created award winning multi-platform campaigns in over forty-two countries for some of the largest brands in the world including Unilever, P&G, Nestle, AOL, HSBC, telstra.com , Fedex, Masterfoods, Pepsi, Hong Kong Tourism, Roche and Nokia. He has run Creative Agencies in Australia, Asia and most recently was Chairman and Creative Director of Grey London.
David realised a long time ago that traditional advertising was not the whole answer and that in order to have a relevant conversation with consumers in today's world, ideas needed to operate on many platforms. His ideas have manifested themselves in the form of content platforms, contemporary art prizes, books, magazines, animated film festivals, documentaries, mobile phone games, concerts and events as well as all of the traditional platforms.
In January this year, David started his own company appropriately named What On Earth Is Going On?
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Deepak Nayar
Founder, Filmaka
Producer
Deepak Nayar began his career in his native India, collaborating with the Merchant Ivory group on films such as Heat & Dust and The Deceivers before moving to Los Angeles, to carve out his place in the competitive world of Hollywood.
The first Features from his US-based company Kintop Pictures were David Lynch’s critically acclaimed Lost Highway and Wim Wender’s award winning The End Of Violence. It was his continued work with Wenders that led him to a “Best Documentary” Academy Award nomination for The Buena Vista Social Club. Nayar also produced Wender’s Million Dollar Hotel, which premiered at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival and won the Silver Bear award.
Nayar has been behind the directorial debuts of a number successful directors including William Jennings, Mahesh Mathai, and Matt Dillon. In 2001 he produced the Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated Bend It Like Beckham, and quickly followed this success with Bride & Prejudice, a cross cultural box office hit.
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Nick Broomfield
Director
Broomfield has been making films since 1971, when he was studying politics and law at Essex University in London. His partnership with American filmmaker Joan Churchill quickly established them as controversial documentarians and after becoming frustrated by the UK's repressive media, they moved to America where they continued working closely together until the mid 1980s.
In the States, Broomfield developed his hallmark technique of interacting openly with his subjects on camera. He has used this method to tackle astonishing personalities like a South African neo-Nazi in The Leader, His Driver and the Driver’s Wife (1991), Lady Thatcher in Tracking Down Maggie (1994) Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995), Kurt and Courtney (1998), Biggie and Tupac (2002) and Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003).
More recently he has entered the realms of docu-drama with Ghosts (2006) and Battle for Haditha (2007). Broomfield has won a variety of awards and fans for his bold style and willingness to tackle tough and controversial topics.
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Jehane Noujaim
Founder, Pangea Day
Director
Jehane Noujaim began as a photographer and filmmaker in Cairo, Egypt, where she grew up. She moved to Boston in 1990, where she attended Harvard University.
Noujaim has worked in both the Middle East and the US as a director and cinematographer on various documentaries including Born Rich (Jamie Johnson), Only the Strong Survive (Miramax Films), and Down from the Mountain (Cohen Brothers). She was a producer on MTV's documentary series Unfiltered, and her film, Startup.com, has won both DGA and IDA documentary awards.
In 2003, Noujaim gained access to both Al Jazeera and the US military's Central Command offices in Qatar two weeks before the invasion of Iraq. The resulting documentary, Control Room, exposed the very divergent ways the Arabs and the West covered events.
Noujaim was the winner of a 2006 TED Prize, which she used to create Pangea Day - a simultaneous, world-wide film festival dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding.
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