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: A beleza oculta da polinização

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Polinização: é essencial à vida na Terra, mas está largamente escondida dos olhos humanos. O realizador Louie Schwartzberg mostra-nos o intrincado mundo do pólen e dos polinizadores com deslumbrantes imagens de alta velocidade do seu filme "Wings of Life" [Asas da Vida], inspirado pelo desaparecimento de um dos principais polinizadores da natureza, a abelha.
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It's great beingser here at TEDTED.
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É muito bom estar aqui na TED.
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You know, I think there mightpoderia be some presentationsapresentações
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that will go over my headcabeça,
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serão talvez areia de mais para a minha camioneta,
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but the mosta maioria amazingsurpreendente conceptsconceitos
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mas os conceitos mais espantosos
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are the onesuns that go right undersob my feetpés.
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são os que estão debaixo dos meus pés.
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The little things in life,
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As pequenas coisas da vida,
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sometimesas vezes that we forgetesqueço about,
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de que nos esquecemos às vezes,
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like pollinationpolinização, that we take for grantedconcedido.
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como a polinização, que tomamos por certa.
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And you can't tell the storyhistória about pollinatorspolinizadores --
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E não se pode contar a história dos polinizadores --
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beesabelhas, batsmorcegos, hummingbirdsbeija-flores, butterfliesborboletas --
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abelhas, morcegos, colibris, borboletas --
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withoutsem tellingdizendo the storyhistória about the inventioninvenção of flowersflores
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sem contar a história sobre a invenção das flores
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and how they co-evolvedco-desenvolveram
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e sobre como co-evoluíram
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over 50 millionmilhão yearsanos.
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durante mais de 50 milhões de anos.
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I've been filmingas filmagens time-lapseespaço de tempo flowersflores
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Tenho andado a filmar flores em "time-lapse"
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24 hourshoras a day, sevenSete daysdias a weeksemana,
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24 horas por dia, sete dias por semana,
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for over 35 yearsanos.
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há mais de 35 anos.
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To watch them movemover
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Vê-las a mover-se
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is a dancedança I'm never going to get tiredcansado of.
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é uma dança de que nunca me irei fartar.
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It fillspreenche me with wondermaravilha, and it opensabre my heartcoração.
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Enche-me de assombro, e abre o meu coração.
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BeautyBeleza and seductionsedução, I believe,
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Beleza e sedução, acredito,
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is nature'snatureza toolferramenta for survivalsobrevivência,
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são as ferramentas da natureza para sobreviver,
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because we will protectproteger what we fallcair in love with.
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porque nós protegemos aquilo porque nos apaixonamos.
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TheirSeus relationshiprelação
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O seu relacionamento
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is a love storyhistória that feedsfeeds the EarthTerra.
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é uma história de amor que alimenta a Terra.
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It remindslembra us that we are a partparte of naturenatureza,
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Lembra-nos de que somos parte da natureza,
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and we're not separateseparado from it.
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e que não estamos separados dela.
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When I heardouviu about the vanishingdesaparecimento beesabelhas, ColonyColônia CollapseColapso DisorderTranstorno de,
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Quando ouvi falar do desaparecimento das abelhas, do Distúrbio do Colapso das Colônias,
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it motivatedmotivado me to take actionaçao.
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isso motivou-me a agir.
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We dependdepender on pollinatorspolinizadores
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Dependemos dos polinizadores
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for over a thirdterceiro of the fruitsfrutas and vegetableslegumes we eatcomer.
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em cerca de um terço dos frutos e vegetais que comemos.
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And manymuitos scientistscientistas believe
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E muitos cientistas acreditam
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it's the mosta maioria seriousgrave issuequestão facingvoltado para mankindhumanidade.
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que é o assunto mais sério que a humanidade enfrenta.
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It's like the canarycanário in the coalminemina de carvão.
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É como o canário e a mina de carvão.
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If they disappeardesaparecer, so do we.
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Se desaparecerem, também nós desaparecemos.
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It remindslembra us that we are a partparte of naturenatureza
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Lembra-nos de que somos parte da natureza
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and we need to take careCuidado of it.
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e de que precisamos de cuidar dela.
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What motivatedmotivado me to filmfilme theirdeles behaviorcomportamento
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O que me motivou a filmar o seu comportamento
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was something that I askedperguntei my scientificcientífico advisersconselheiros:
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foi algo que perguntei aos meus consultores científicos:
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"What motivatesmotiva the pollinatorspolinizadores?"
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O que motiva os polinizadores?
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Well, theirdeles answerresponda was,
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Bem, a resposta deles foi,
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"It's all about riskrisco and rewardrecompensa."
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"Tem tudo a ver com risco e recompensa."
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Like a wide-eyedolhos arregalados kidcriança, I'd say, "Why is that?"
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Como um miúdo de olhos esbugalhados, eu dizia, "Porquê?"
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And they'deles say, "Well, because they want to survivesobreviver."
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E eles diziam, "Bem, porque querem sobreviver."
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I go, "Why?"
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E eu, "Porquê?"
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"Well, in orderordem to reproducereproduzir."
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"Bem, para se poderem reproduzir."
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"Well, why?"
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"Bem, e porquê?"
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And I thought that they'deles probablyprovavelmente say, "Well, it's all about sexsexo."
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E eu pensei que eles provavelmente diriam, "Bem, tem tudo a ver com sexo."
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And ChipChip de TaylorTaylor, our monarchmonarca butterflyborboleta expertespecialista,
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E o Chip Taylor, o nosso perito em borboletas-monarca,
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he repliedrespondeu, "Nothing lastsdura foreverpara sempre.
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respondeu, "Nada dura para sempre.
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Everything in the universeuniverso wearsdesgasta out."
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Tudo no universo se desgasta."
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And that blewsoprou my mindmente.
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E isso deixou-me perplexo.
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Because I realizedpercebi
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that naturenatureza had inventedinventado reproductionreprodução
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a natureza tinha inventado a reprodução
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as a mechanismmecanismo for life to movemover forwardprogressivo,
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como um mecanismo para fazer avançar a vida,
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as a life forceforça that passespassa right throughatravés us
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como uma força vital que nos atravessa
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and makesfaz com que us a linkligação in the evolutionevolução of life.
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e faz de nós um elo na evolução da vida.
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RarelyRaramente seenvisto by the nakednu eyeolho,
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Raramente vista a olho nu,
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this intersectioninterseção
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esta intersecção
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betweenentre the animalanimal worldmundo and the plantplantar worldmundo
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entre o mundo animal e o mundo das plantas
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is trulyverdadeiramente a magicMagia momentmomento.
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é um momento verdadeiramente mágico.
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It's the mysticalmístico momentmomento
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É o momento místico
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where life regeneratesregenera-se itselfem si,
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em que a vida se regenera a si própria,
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over and over again.
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uma e outra vez.
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So here is some nectarnéctar from my filmfilme.
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Então, aqui está algum néctar do meu filme.
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I hopeesperança you'llvocê vai drinkbeber, tweetTweet
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Espero que bebam, chilreiem
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and plantplantar some seedssementes
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e plantem algumas sementes
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to pollinatepolinizam a friendlyamigáveis gardenjardim.
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para polinizar um jardim amigável.
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And always take time to smellcheiro the flowersflores,
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E tirem sempre tempo para cheirar as flores,
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and let it fillencher you with beautybeleza,
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e deixem-nas encher-vos de beleza,
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and rediscoverredescobrir a that sensesentido of wondermaravilha.
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e redescubram aquela sensação de assombro.
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Here are some imagesimagens from the filmfilme.
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Aqui estão algumas imagens do filme.
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Thank you.
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Obrigado.
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Thank you very much.
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Muito obrigado.
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Thank you.
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Obrigado.
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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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