About the Film
Makers
Polly Green
Polly has passion for traveling
and working around the world. She has been on the
road for the past ten years, and currently bases herself
in New Zealand. She was a part of the film crew and
team member on a National Geographic 5 week sea kayaking
expedition in Vietnam, completed an all female first
descent of rivers in Bhutan, and has completed kayaking
expeditions in Nepal, India, New Zealand, Australia,
Italy, France, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, Vietnam,
Chile, Norway, Germany, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Canada, Uganda, and Zambia.
Her
travels brought her to a small village in Uganda where
she wrote the script for the documentary Nomads. She
funded and produced Nomads herself on a tight budget.
She shot the majority of the footage herself, capturing
audio and preparing preliminary edits in a most difficult
setting.
She
was the primary videographer for Blue Planet Run,
a 95 day, 24 hour relay run around the world., covering
over 15,000 miles, through 16 countries. While on
the road, Polly shot and edited 14 segments that were
uploaded from remote locations around the word, and
posted on the web. She has also produced “Running
for Water” a documentary about the run and the
clean drinking water issue.
Polly
has also worked as a cameraman for Young Gun Productions
in Uganda and New Zealand.
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Chris Emerick
Has spent the last 10 years
working around the world on a variety of projects that
include works that aired on The National Geographic
Channel, The Associated Press, and The Discovery Channel.
He has filmed, edited and authored a total of 16 instructional
DVD’s to date, several winning awards. He specializes
in filming and editing around the world and has done
the majority of his work throughout Africa, South America,
Mexico and New Zealand. He produced, filmed and edited
a documentary that circled the globe, following elite
whitewater kayakers as they paddled some of the world’s
most impressive rivers. He has produced several sales
and promotional DVD’s for companies in the paddle
sports industry. Chris is also an action and landscape
photographer and has had photos published in magazines
in the United States and France. He works solely in
the digital medium so that he can deliver publishable
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