Center for Environmental Filmmaking

  • Chris Palmer is the Director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking and a professor at American University's School of Communication

    Chris Palmer

    Chris Palmer is the Director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking and a professor at American University's School of Communication.

  • Classroom in the Wild students canoe with Prof Chris Palmer in the Florida Everglades.

    Learning on Location

  • Center Director Chris Palmer works as President of the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation, which produces IMAX (R) Theater Films.

    IMAX Films

    Center Director Chris Palmer works as President of the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation, which produces IMAX (R) Theater Films.

  • Joe Bohannon and Lauren DeAngelis film "A Place to Land", the thesis film that won DeAngelis a Bronze in the Documentary Category at the Student Academy Awards

    Student Films

    Joe Bohannon and Lauren DeAngelis film "A Place to Land," the thesis film that won DeAngelis a Bronze in the Documentary Category at the Student Academy Awards

  • Student Nati Chen photographs fish at the California Academy of Sciences.

    Oceans for Life

    Some SOC students spent the summer mentoring young eco-enthusiasts from around the world.

Chris Palmer is the Director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking and a professor at SOC

Center Director Chris Palmer

welcome from Director Chris Palmer

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About the Center

The Center for Environmental Filmmaking is an integral part of SOC, and the Center’s leaders are all SOC faculty. We train students to produce films and new media that focus attention on wildlife and the environment and the need to protect them. Download our brochure.

Classroom in the Wild

A student photographs animals in the Everglades during classroom in the Wild 2009. Photo by Joe Bohannon

A one-week alternative spring break program in Florida to introduce them to the challenges of natural history field production.

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Guide to Sustainable Filmmaking

Professor and filmmaker Larry Engel's new book provides tools for filmmakers with sustainable production in mind.

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