ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Louie Schwartzberg - Filmmaker
Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer who captures breathtaking images that celebrate life -- revealing connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty.

Why you should listen

Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer whose career spans more than four decades of providing breathtaking imagery using his time-lapse, high-speed and macro cinematography techniques. Schwartzberg tells stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.

Schwartzberg's recent theatrical releases include the 3D IMAX film, Mysteries of the Unseen World with National Geographic, narrated by Forest Whitaker, and the documentary Wings of Life for Disneynature, narrated by Meryl Streep. Mysteries of the Unseen World is a journey into invisible worlds that are too slow, too fast, too small and too vast for the human eye to see, while Wings of Life focuses on pollination and the web of life. Schwartzberg also directed Soarin' Around the World, an international update to the original Soarin' ride now showing at Disney Parks in Anaheim, Orlando and Shanghai.

Designed to inspire, educate and evolve our perspective on the world, Schwartzberg creates and curates Moving Art videos, which can be found on your smart phone and Netflix. The Moving Art series will be expanded from six to thirteen videos in early 2017.

Schwartzberg's Gratitude Revealed series of shorts were launched on Oprah.com. Supported by the Templeton Foundation, with science and analytics by the Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley, the series explores the multifaceted virtues of gratitude. Schwartzberg is the first filmmaker to be inducted into the Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lemelson Foundation’s Invention Ambassadors Program.

For Schwartzberg, the greatest satisfaction is creating works that can have a positive effect on the future of the planet. "I hope my films inspire and open people's hearts," he says. "Beauty is nature's tool for survival -- we protect what we love. Nature's beauty can open hearts, and the shift in consciousness we need to sustain and celebrate life."

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Louie Schwartzberg | Speaker | TED.com
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Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination

Louie Schwartzberg y la belleza oculta de la polinización

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Polinización: es vital para la vida en la Tierra, pero en gran medida invisible para el ojo humano. El cineasta Louie Schwartzberg nos muestra el intrincado mundo del polen y los polinizadores con imágenes preciosas de alta velocidad de su película "Alas de la Vida", inspirado en la desaparición de uno de los principales polinizadores de la naturaleza, la abeja.
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It's great beingsiendo here at TEDTED.
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Es fantástico estar aquí en TED.
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You know, I think there mightpodría be some presentationspresentaciones
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Creo que muchas presentaciones
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that will go over my headcabeza,
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me podrían venir a la cabeza,
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but the mostmás amazingasombroso conceptsconceptos
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no obstante, los conceptos más asombrosos
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are the onesunos that go right underdebajo my feetpies.
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son los que me pasan exactamente por debajo de los pies.
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The little things in life,
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Las pequeñas cosas de la vida,
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sometimesa veces that we forgetolvidar about,
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de las que a veces nos olvidamos,
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like pollinationpolinización, that we take for grantedconcedido.
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y que damos por sentado como la polinización.
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And you can't tell the storyhistoria about pollinatorspolinizadores --
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Y no se puede explicar la historia de los polinizadores -
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beesabejas, batsmurcielagos, hummingbirdscolibríes, butterfliesmariposas --
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las abejas, murciélagos, colibríes, mariposas -
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withoutsin tellingnarración the storyhistoria about the inventioninvención of flowersflores
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sin contar la historia de la invención de las flores
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and how they co-evolvedcoevolucionado
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y como fueron coevolucionado
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over 50 millionmillón yearsaños.
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durante más de 50 millones de años.
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I've been filmingrodaje time-lapsetime-lapse flowersflores
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He filmado flores en periodos de
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24 hourshoras a day, sevensiete daysdías a weeksemana,
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24 horas al día, 7 días a la semana,
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for over 35 yearsaños.
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durante más de 35 años.
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To watch them movemovimiento
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Para observar su movimiento
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is a dancebaile I'm never going to get tiredcansado of.
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es un baile del que nunca me cansaré.
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It fillsllena me with wonderpreguntarse, and it opensabre my heartcorazón.
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Esto me llena de asombro y me abre el corazón.
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BeautyBelleza and seductionseducción, I believe,
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La belleza y la seducción, creo,
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is nature'sla naturaleza toolherramienta for survivalsupervivencia,
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son herramientas de la naturaleza para la supervivencia,
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because we will protectproteger what we fallotoño in love with.
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porque protegemos aquello de lo que nos enamoramos.
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TheirSu relationshiprelación
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Esas relaciones
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is a love storyhistoria that feedsalimenta the EarthTierra.
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componen una historia de amor que alimenta a la Tierra.
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It remindsrecuerda us that we are a partparte of naturenaturaleza,
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Esto nos recuerda que somos una parte de la naturaleza,
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and we're not separateseparar from it.
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y no estamos al margen de ella.
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When I heardoído about the vanishingdesvanecimiento beesabejas, ColonyColonia CollapseColapso DisorderTrastorno,
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Enterarme de la desaparición de las abejas, conocido como problema de colapso de colonias,
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it motivatedmotivado me to take actionacción.
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me llevó a tomar medidas.
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We dependdepender on pollinatorspolinizadores
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Dependemos de los polinizadores
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for over a thirdtercero of the fruitsfrutas and vegetablesvegetales we eatcomer.
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en el caso de más de un tercio de las frutas y verduras que comemos.
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And manymuchos scientistscientíficos believe
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Y muchos científicos creen que
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it's the mostmás seriousgrave issueproblema facingfrente a mankindhumanidad.
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se trata del problema más grave al que se enfrenta la Humanidad.
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It's like the canarycanario in the coalminemina de carbón.
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Es como el canario en la mina de carbón.
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If they disappeardesaparecer, so do we.
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Si desaparecen, nosotros también.
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It remindsrecuerda us that we are a partparte of naturenaturaleza
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Esto nos recuerda que somos una parte de la naturaleza
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and we need to take carecuidado of it.
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y tenemos que cuidar de ella.
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What motivatedmotivado me to filmpelícula theirsu behaviorcomportamiento
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Lo que me motivó para filmar su comportamiento
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was something that I askedpreguntó my scientificcientífico advisersasesores:
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era algo que pregunté a mis asesores científicos:
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"What motivatesmotiva the pollinatorspolinizadores?"
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¿Qué motiva a los polinizadores?
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Well, theirsu answerresponder was,
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Bueno, su respuesta fue:
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"It's all about riskriesgo and rewardrecompensa."
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"Todo gira en torno al riesgo y la recompensa".
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Like a wide-eyedcon los ojos abiertos kidniño, I'd say, "Why is that?"
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Como un niño sorprendidísimo dije: "¿Pero por qué es así?"
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And they'dellos habrían say, "Well, because they want to survivesobrevivir."
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Y dijeron: "Pues, porque quieren sobrevivir".
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I go, "Why?"
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Y proseguí " Pero, ¿por qué?"
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"Well, in orderorden to reproducereproducir."
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"Bueno, con el fin de reproducirse".
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"Well, why?"
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"Ya, pero ¿por qué?"
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And I thought that they'dellos habrían probablyprobablemente say, "Well, it's all about sexsexo."
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Y pensé que probablemente diría: "Es que todo se mueve en torno al sexo".
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And ChipChip TaylorTaylor, our monarchmonarca butterflymariposa expertexperto,
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Y Chip Taylor, nuestro experto en la mariposa monarca,
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he repliedrespondido, "Nothing laststiene una duración foreverSiempre.
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contestó: "Nada es eterno.
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Everything in the universeuniverso wearsviste out."
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Todo en el universo llega a agotarse".
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And that blewsopló my mindmente.
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Y eso me dejó alucinado.
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Because I realizeddio cuenta
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that naturenaturaleza had inventedinventado reproductionreproducción
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que la naturaleza había inventado la reproducción
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as a mechanismmecanismo for life to movemovimiento forwardadelante,
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como mecanismo para la propia vida con el fin de perpetuarse,
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as a life forcefuerza that passespasa right throughmediante us
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como una fuerza vital que nos atraviesa
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and makeshace us a linkenlazar in the evolutionevolución of life.
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y nos convierte en un eslabón más en la evolución de la vida.
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RarelyRaramente seenvisto by the nakeddesnudo eyeojo,
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Rara vez se ve a simple vista,
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this intersectionintersección
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la intersección
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betweenEntre the animalanimal worldmundo and the plantplanta worldmundo
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entre el mundo animal y el mundo vegetal.
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is trulyverdaderamente a magicmagia momentmomento.
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Es realmente un momento mágico.
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It's the mysticalmístico momentmomento
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Es el momento místico
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where life regeneratesregenera itselfsí mismo,
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donde la vida se regenera,
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over and over again.
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una y otra vez.
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So here is some nectarnéctar from my filmpelícula.
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Así que aquí les muestro algo de néctar de mi película.
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I hopeesperanza you'lltu vas a drinkbeber, tweetPío
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Espero que beban, píen
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and plantplanta some seedssemillas
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y planten algunas semillas
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to pollinatepolinizar a friendlyamistoso gardenjardín.
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para polinizar un jardín agradable.
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And always take time to smelloler the flowersflores,
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Y siempre tómense tiempo para oler las flores,
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and let it fillllenar you with beautybelleza,
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y déjense impregnar de belleza,
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and rediscoverredescubrir that sensesentido of wonderpreguntarse.
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y redescubran el sentido de lo maravilloso.
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Here are some imagesimágenes from the filmpelícula.
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Aquí muestro algunas imágenes de la película.
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Thank you.
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Gracias.
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Thank you very much.
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Muchas gracias.
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Thank you.
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Gracias.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Louie Schwartzberg - Filmmaker
Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer who captures breathtaking images that celebrate life -- revealing connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty.

Why you should listen

Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer whose career spans more than four decades of providing breathtaking imagery using his time-lapse, high-speed and macro cinematography techniques. Schwartzberg tells stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.

Schwartzberg's recent theatrical releases include the 3D IMAX film, Mysteries of the Unseen World with National Geographic, narrated by Forest Whitaker, and the documentary Wings of Life for Disneynature, narrated by Meryl Streep. Mysteries of the Unseen World is a journey into invisible worlds that are too slow, too fast, too small and too vast for the human eye to see, while Wings of Life focuses on pollination and the web of life. Schwartzberg also directed Soarin' Around the World, an international update to the original Soarin' ride now showing at Disney Parks in Anaheim, Orlando and Shanghai.

Designed to inspire, educate and evolve our perspective on the world, Schwartzberg creates and curates Moving Art videos, which can be found on your smart phone and Netflix. The Moving Art series will be expanded from six to thirteen videos in early 2017.

Schwartzberg's Gratitude Revealed series of shorts were launched on Oprah.com. Supported by the Templeton Foundation, with science and analytics by the Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley, the series explores the multifaceted virtues of gratitude. Schwartzberg is the first filmmaker to be inducted into the Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lemelson Foundation’s Invention Ambassadors Program.

For Schwartzberg, the greatest satisfaction is creating works that can have a positive effect on the future of the planet. "I hope my films inspire and open people's hearts," he says. "Beauty is nature's tool for survival -- we protect what we love. Nature's beauty can open hearts, and the shift in consciousness we need to sustain and celebrate life."

More profile about the speaker
Louie Schwartzberg | Speaker | TED.com

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