Award-winning director & producer Lindsay Blatt joins us for the Mentor Series

Lindsay is an Explorers Club Fellow who has directed and produced award-winning science, culture, and impact pieces, including the Netflix feature documentary The Most Unknown, which follows nine scientists traveling to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover the answers to some of humanity’s biggest questions. Her film Herd in Iceland, which documents the island nation’s annual horse round-up, won over 15 festival awards and airs on PBS. Brand storytelling partners include Google, VICE Media, OceanX, Apple, ICONIQ Impact, The Victoria & Albert Museum, UNICEF, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Columbia University, Nature Conservancy, and The Vilcek Foundation. As the founder of Archerfish Productions, commissions have taken Lindsay to film travelogues of the Inca Trail, Galapagos, and high Arctic, and horse treks through Mongolia and Patagonia. Lindsay has been fortunate to create pieces featuring inspiring subjects from Nobel Prize winners to subsistence farmers. Earlier in her career, she honed her visual storytelling skills at Instagram and The New York Times. She was a staff Senior Producer at the National Geographic Society. Outside of work, Lindsay can be found hiking, camping, riding, and making Seinfeld references. Frequently, all at the same time.

The Department of Film & Digital Arts Mentor Series was inaugurated to celebrate thirty (plus!) years of film education at UNM. Each semester we invite a distinguished group of alumni and film luminaries to talk to our students and the community about how they found success doing what they love. If you want to work in the digital media fields, this series is a fabulous source of advice and useable strategies. All events are free and open to the public.

Date: Wednesday, April 29
Time: 2PM
Where: Zoom
Register via Zoom here: https://unm.zoom.us/meeting/register/n5MYZW-VTNmQZmWeNsizoA