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ADP to Serve as Associate Producer for Showtime® TV Series “Years of Living Dangerously”
Avoided Deforestation Partners is pleased to announce that we are joining up with an extraordinarily talented team to produce SHOWTIME’s upcoming series, “Years of Living Dangerously,” which explores the human impact of climate change. The project’s executive producers are acclaimed Hollywood filmmakers James Cameron and Jerry Weintraub, as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger; managing producers are Emmy award-winning 60 Minutes veterans Joel Bach, David Gelber and Solly Granatstein. ADP will assist the strategic communications effort that supports the series.
Each hour-long show will be narrated by a cast of prominent actors, and reported from the field by a team of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists. With this combination of passionate, epic-style filmmakers, hard-hitting journalists, and big-name narrators, the series is primed to be both thought-provoking and impactful.
AD Partners founder Jeff Horowitz will serve as a Co-Producer and Story Consultant for the “Year of Living Dangerously” segments that will be focused on the topic of deforestation, but will also be engaged in other episodes. AD Partners is honored and delighted to be part of this unprecedented, broad scale effort to educate people worldwide about the direct links between our daily lives, deforestation and climate change. The series is scheduled to premier early in 2014, so stay tuned!
NEWS RELEASE
SHOWTIME® TO AIR “YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY”
A MULTI-EPISODE DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Event Series to be Executive Produced By:
James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
“60 Minutes” Vets Joel Bach and David Gelber, and Climate Expert Daniel Abbasi
Executive producers Jerry Weintraub, James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenneger
LOS ANGELES, CA – SHOWTIME will explore the human impact of climate change in the documentary event series YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. This first-of-its-kind series is a collaboration between some of Hollywood’s biggest actors and producers, along with the country’s leading news journalists, who will report on first-person accounts of those affected by – and seeking solutions to – global warming. The project is executive produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with Emmy®-winning 60 Minutes producers Joel Bach and David Gelber, and climate expert Daniel Abbasi. Film and television stars such as Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Alec Baldwin will participate as first-person narrators on the ground. Also expected to join the project is actor Edward Norton, with more names to be announced soon. Reporting from the field is a dream team of New York Times journalists, including three- time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof, as well as renowned columnist Mark Bittman and MSNBC host and political commentator Chris Hayes, among others. The announcement was made today by David Nevins, President of Entertainment for Showtime Networks Inc. Extensive in both scale and scope, YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY will unfold over six to eight one-hour episodes and is scheduled to air in 2014.
“The recent devastation on the East Coast is a tragic reminder of the direct link between our daily lives and climate change,” said Nevins. “This series presents a unique opportunity to combine the large-scale filmmaking styles of James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger — arguably some of Hollywood’s biggest movie makers — with the hard-hitting, intimate journalism of 60 Minutes veterans Joel Bach and David Gelber. I believe this combination will make for a thought-provoking television event.”
“We’ll make it exciting,” said Cameron. “We’ll make it investigative. We’ll bring people the truth. And people are always hungry for the truth.”
YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY will combine the epic and passionate styles of Hollywood’s top filmmakers with Bach and Gelber’s reporting expertise to reveal critical stories of heartbreak, hope and heroism as the race to save the planet continues.
Oscar® winner Cameron has been a long-time, vocal environmental advocate. His latest record-breaking sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar,” nominated for nine Academy Awards®, includes themes of civilization’s detrimental treatment of the planet. Weintraub, former chairman and CEO of United Artists and famed producer of the “Ocean’s 11” franchise and other box- office hits, is well known for his philanthropic efforts on behalf of a wide variety of causes. Former California Governor Schwarzenegger is an active leader on environmental issues. As governor, he enacted the nation’s largest greenhouse gas emissions trading program.
Of Gelber’s 25 years at 60 Minutes, he served as Ed Bradley’s producer for two decades, during which he won every major journalism award, including a Peabody, two DuPonts and eight Emmy Awards. During Bach’s seven-year tenure at 60 Minutes, he produced pieces for Bradley, Scott Pelley, Steve Kroft and Leslie Stahl. He is the recipient of three Emmy Awards. Abbasi, the founder of GameChange Capital, a venture capital firm funding low-carbon solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, will work with the series’ investigative team to identify and spotlight the most promising ways to decelerate climate change. Abbasi serves on the governing body of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and previously served as an appointee in the Clinton Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency.
Additionally, the series will be executive produced by Maria Wilhelm (Avatar Alliance Foundation). Seven-time Emmy winner Solly Granatstein (60 Minutes and Rock Center with Brian Williams) will serve as co-executive producer.
UPDATE FROM ROARING FORK MEDIA: NEW YORK, NY (March 06, 2013) – Special update for forest-climate advocates: Jeff Horowitz, founder of Avoided Deforestation Partners, will join the YEARS team as an associate producer, story consultant and fundraiser for the project’s deforestation segment. Jeff brings a wealth of knowledge to this subject in addition to an extensive network of friends to add further support for the series.
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