induStry mentors
CLAUD CARRERA
Claudi Carreras is an independent curator, editor, cultural producer and photography researcher who holds an advanced studies diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. As a curator, he has curated multiple exhibitions that have been shown in more than fifty countries, including "Laberinto de Miradas", "Cotidiano Latino", "ECO", "Africamericanos", "Inside the curve (NGS)" and Amazònies, the ancestral future. He curated the festival Paraty em Foco in Brazil, where he participated from 2011 to 2015, and the selection for Latin America of the Biennal Photo Quai of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris in 2013 and 2015. He was advisor and curator of the Latin American Forum of Photography of São Paulo since its creation in 2007 until 2019. He has been a jury member of important competitions such as World Press Photo, POY Latam, Sony International Award or the Spanish National Photography Award. As an editor, he has published more than thirty photography books in various publishing houses, especially in Editora Madalena of Brazil, of which he is a founding partner.
Ahead of the Power of Perspectives collaboration, he attended the #NEWF2025 Fellows Summit and Congress where he facilitated Listening Images and explored Africamericano as a visual case study.
He is currently the founding director of the VIST Foundation - learn more at www.vistprojects.com
Danielle Broza is the Digital Lead for PBS Nature, where she oversees all aspects of content development, digital production, audience engagement, and social strategy. Danielle and her team share a single mission: to future-proof one of public media's longest-running and most acclaimed series by transforming Nature from a legacy television program into an enduring, multiplatform brand reaching more audiences than ever before.
Danielle Broza
Geoff Luck is an Emmy award-nominated producer and director who’s been the showrunner for eleven television series and executive producer of over a hundred programs in science and conservation, many produced during a fifteen-year career at National Geographic. His work as a director has been featured on Netflix, Disney+, PBS and many other outlets, and honored at the United Nations and the Museum of Modern Art. He’s currently Executive Producer & Director of Impact for the Wild Hope Initiative at HHMI Tangled Bank Studios.
GEOFF LUCK
As chief storytelling officer at the National Geographic Society, Kaitlin Yarnall is responsible for expanding the organization’s impact through all forms of storytelling. Yarnall oversees a team that creates data visualization, identifies key partnership, grantmaking, and fellowship opportunities, and preserves materials that document the Society’s 130+ year history. Yarnall began her career at the Society in 2005 as a cartographer. She has assumed a variety of management roles including deputy director of National Geographic Labs, executive director at National Geographic magazine, and director of cartography. Yarnall has an M.A. in geography from The George Washington University. She specializes in storytelling, data visualization, information graphics, cartography, and visual narratives.
Kaitlin Yarnall
PATRICK MORRIS
Patrick has been making award-winning natural history and environmental films for more than thirty years. His work includes producing and series producing the BBC landmark series Wild Africa, Wild Europe, Galapagos, Life, Wild West and Mexico: Earth’s Festival of Life, directing the BBC Earth 3D theatrical film Enchanted Kingdom and producing and writing many wildlife specials such as Dune, Hokkaido: Garden of the Gods, People of the Sea, The Lions Share, Wings over the Serengeti and Islands in the African Sky. More recently Patrick was a producer/director on The Hidden Kingdoms of China and an executive producer on Kalahari: Land of Secret Alliances, Wild Tales from the Farm, China’s Wild Empire, Canada: Surviving the Wild North and the global environmental series The Age of Nature and The Future of Nature.
Prakash Matada is a wildlife filmmaker, National Geographic Explorer, and Fellow of the American Society of Cinematographers. He divides his time between creating wildlife conservation films and working on blue-chip natural history projects. His conservation films have received numerous awards, including accolades from Wildscreen and Jackson Wild.
His film Flying Elephants has reached over 100 million viewers worldwide, and his work has been featured on platforms including BBC, Disney, and Apple TV.
A regular user of VR for impact storytelling, Prakash has also mentored NEWF Fellows and many other filmmakers in technically advancing VR filmmaking for wildlife storytelling and conservation.
prakash matada
Vanessa Serrao leads the Impact Story Lab at the National Geographic Society, an initiative that combines creative excellence with social, cognitive, and behavioral science to drive positive change. She and her team produce world-class film, audio, photography, VR/AR experiences and other media that furthers the goals of National Geographic’s Explorer-led programs. An award-winning filmmaker, producer and executive producer, Vanessa specializes in telling stories about science, culture, and the intersection of the two. Her work has helped to raise millions of dollars for wildlife conservation, inspired unanimous support of environmental legislation, and made complex scientific topics accessible to a worldwide audience. Vanessa began her career producing on-air and online content for the Discovery networks and has since produced media for numerous networks and non-profit organizations.