Speakers
Expert speakers and workshop leaders share tales from their own expeditions and fieldwork projects and advise attendees on future ideas and plans.
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Natalie Hewit
Natalie is an award-winning and BAFTA-nominated filmaker who has been making prime-time documentaries for major broadcasters for more than a decade. Her most recent project, Endurance documented the expedition to find the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship and was selected to Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival 2024 to critical acclaim.
Alex Keefe
Alex is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer-director, aspiring expedition leader and adventure motorcyclist. Alex has a passion for storytelling, science communication and understanding the impact of adventure on mental well-being.
Cameron Mackay
Scottish environmental filmmaker and Celtic music producer Cameron Mackay (He/Him) aims to use his media storytelling work to spark new connections between audiences and nature, showcase inclusive solutions to the climate crisis and celebrate contemporary traditional cultural heritage. He currently runs an environmental impact-focused film production company based in Glasgow.
Graham Jackson
Graham has run and guided expeditions in Africa, Australia, South America, the American West, Mexico and Central America, and trained in the US, Central America and Africa. He is recognized as one of the premier Overland trainers in the world, started Overland Training and is co-owner of 7P Overland.
James Chapman
James Chapman is the co-founder of Project Amu Darya, a documentary and environmental education initiative focusing on the ongoing impact of the Aral Sea Crisis in Uzbekistan, and working to promote environmental opportunities for youth in the Aral Sea region.
James Levelle
James is a filmmaker and adventurer whose work in the world’s wildest places has earned him uncommon understanding of the beauty and power of Nature, as well as an unshakeable faith in humankind.
Karolina Gawonicz
Karolina is a yoga teacher, coach, and IT professional driven by a thirst for adventure. She has explored remote wildernesses from subarctic Canada to the jungles of New Guinea. Her diverse passions allow her to connect deeply with both nature and people, inspiring her to share her journey with the world.
Lucy Penny
Lucy is a child and adult student nurse passionate about expedition medicine and connecting young people to nature for both personal and environmental health.
Matt Pycroft
Matt specialises in working in remote and hostile environments as a highly experienced filmmaker and photographer.
Matthias Pav
Matthias is a bioscience engineer whose passion for documenting his experiences on video has led to growing YouTube and Instagram channels where he merges scientific information with pop culture references, memes and unconventional editing.
Michał Łukaszewicz
Michał is an explorer, writer and photographer with an environmental science background who has spent over two years on expeditions. His adventures include tracking snow leopards in the Himalayas, crossing Papua New Guinea's Blucher Range, and paddling remote areas of Subarctic Canada.
Oscar Turner
Oscar Turner is the co-founder of Project Amu Darya, a documentary and environmental education initiative focusing on the ongoing impact of the Aral Sea Crisis in Uzbekistan, and working to promote environmental opportunities for youth in the Aral Sea region.