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Ninth Annual Festival

5:37 min
Documentary, Educational
Director: Virginia Ramsey, Brian Ohl, Eleanor Saunders
Producer: Inform Inc.

Winner of the Rethinking Resources Award

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INFORM, Inc, Producer

INFORM is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to using new media to build environmental literacy in the general public. Founded in 1973, INFORM has historically been a research organization, whose reports have played a seminal role in guiding business and government to adopt innovative technologies, products and practices to protect the environment and public health. INFORM has received numerous awards for its outstanding work.

In 2007, INFORM inaugurated a new approach to its historic mission of providing information to catalyze change. Its strategy is to use visual media and the web to expand environmental literacy and provide concerned citizens with the tools they need to make meaningful changes on behalf of the planet.

The Secret Life of Paper was produced by Virginia F. Ramsey, INFORM’s President, Brian Ohl, Director of Programs, and Eleanor Saunders, Research Associate, in conjunction with filmmakers Loch Phillipps and Nathan Ackerman.

Loch Phillipps, Co-Director, Editor

Loch Phillipps, a filmmaker living in Brooklyn, is the founder of Off Ramp Films, a video and web production company making films that give more airtime to solutions than problems. Off Ramp Films develops independent, social-issue films and works with clients to create meaningful communications products that connect with audiences, promote thinking and stimulate action.

Nathan Ackerman, Co-Director and Cinematographer

After working as a grassroots organizer for the League of Conservation Voters, Nathan Ackerman began his media career producing segments for ABC News. He joined the staff of the Senate Democratic Leadership in 1999, where he spent a decade helping to communicate major agenda items. After the Democrats regained the majority, Ackerman left to launch Eighteenth Street Media, a firm dedicated to helping progressive candidates and causes. His work for the last four Democratic Presidential candidates and for a range of nonprofits has won several Pollie Awards. His early use of flash animation for campaigns is in the collection of the American Museum of the Moving Image and his voting rights documentary is the recipient of the DC Independent Film Festival Visionary Award.