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: The hidden beauty of pollination

Louie Schwartzberg : La beauté cachée de la pollinisation

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Bien qu'essentielle à la vie sur Terre, la pollinisation demeure en grande partie invisible à l'être humain. Le réalisateur Louie Schwartzberg nous fait découvrir l'univers complexe du pollen et des pollinisateurs au travers de magnifiques images accélérées de son film « Pollen », qu'il a filmé en réaction à la disparition de l'un des principaux pollinisateurs, l'abeille.
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It's great beingétant here at TEDTED.
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Je suis heureux d'être ici, à TED.
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You know, I think there mightpourrait be some presentationsprésentations
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Vous savez, je crois que certaines présentations risquent
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that will go over my headtête,
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de me passer au-dessus de la tête,
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but the mostles plus amazingincroyable conceptsconcepts
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mais les concepts les plus impressionants
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are the onesceux that go right underen dessous de my feetpieds.
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sont ceux qui me passent sous les pieds.
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The little things in life,
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Ce sont les petites choses de la vie,
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sometimesparfois that we forgetoublier about,
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que nous oublions parfois,
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like pollinationpollinisation, that we take for grantedaccordé.
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comme la pollinisation, que nous prenons pour acquise.
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And you can't tell the storyrécit about pollinatorspollinisateurs --
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Et il est impossible de raconter l'histoire des pollinisateurs
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beesabeilles, batschauves-souris, hummingbirdscolibris, butterfliespapillons --
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(les abeilles, chauve-souris, colibris, papillons, etc.)
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withoutsans pour autant tellingrécit the storyrécit about the inventioninvention of flowersfleurs
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sans parler de l'invention de la fleur
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and how they co-evolvedcoévolué
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et de leur co-évolution
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over 50 millionmillion yearsannées.
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pendant 50 millions d'années.
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I've been filmingle tournage time-lapselaps de temps flowersfleurs
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Cela fait plus de 35 ans
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24 hoursheures a day, sevenSept daysjournées a weekla semaine,
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que je filme des fleurs en accéléré
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for over 35 yearsannées.
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24 heures sur 24, 7 jours sur 7.
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To watch them movebouge toi
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Je ne me lasserai jamais
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is a danceDanse I'm never going to get tiredfatigué of.
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de les regarder bouger et danser.
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It fillsremplit me with wondermerveille, and it openss'ouvre my heartcœur.
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Leur danse m'émerveille et m'émeut.
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BeautyBeauté and seductionséduction, I believe,
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La beauté et l'art de séduire sont à mon avis
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is nature'sla nature tooloutil for survivalsurvie,
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les outils qui assurent la survie de la nature
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because we will protectprotéger what we falltomber in love with.
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car nous protégeons toujours ce que nous aimons.
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TheirLeur relationshiprelation
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Leur relation
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is a love storyrécit that feedsflux the EarthTerre.
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est une histoire d'amour qui nourrit la Terre.
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It remindsrappelle us that we are a partpartie of naturela nature,
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Elle nous rappelle que nous faisons partie
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and we're not separateséparé from it.
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intégrante de la nature.
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When I heardentendu about the vanishingdisparition beesabeilles, ColonyColonie CollapseEffondrement DisorderTrouble,
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Lorsque j'ai entendu parler du Syndrome d'effondrement des colonies d'abeilles,
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it motivatedmotivés me to take actionaction.
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j'ai décidé d'agir.
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We dependdépendre on pollinatorspollinisateurs
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Nous sommes tributaires des pollinisateurs
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for over a thirdtroisième of the fruitsfruits and vegetablesdes légumes we eatmanger.
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pour plus d'un tiers des fruits et des légumes que nous mangeons.
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And manybeaucoup scientistsscientifiques believe
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Selon de nombreux scientifiques,
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it's the mostles plus serioussérieux issueproblème facingorienté vers mankindhumanité.
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il s'agit du problème le plus grave auquel l'humanité est confrontée.
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It's like the canarycanari in the coalminemine de charbon.
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C'est un signe avant-coureur.
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If they disappeardisparaître, so do we.
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S'ils disparaissent, nous disparaitrons aussi.
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It remindsrappelle us that we are a partpartie of naturela nature
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Cela nous rappelle que nous faisons partie de la nature
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and we need to take carese soucier of it.
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et que nous devons en prendre soin.
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What motivatedmotivés me to filmfilm theirleur behaviorcomportement
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J'ai décidé de filmer leur comportement à cause de
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was something that I askeda demandé my scientificscientifique advisersconseillers:
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la réponse que mes conseillers scientifiques m'ont donnée à la question :
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"What motivatesmotive the pollinatorspollinisateurs?"
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Qu'est-ce qui motive les pollinisateurs ?
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Well, theirleur answerrépondre was,
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Ils m'ont répondu :
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"It's all about riskrisque and rewardrécompense."
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« C'est une question de risque et de récompense. »
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Like a wide-eyedyeux écarquillés kidenfant, I'd say, "Why is that?"
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Les yeux écarquillés, j'ai demandé : « Pourquoi ça ?
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And they'dils auraient say, "Well, because they want to survivesurvivre."
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- Parce qu'ils veulent survivre, ont-ils répondu.
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I go, "Why?"
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- Pourquoi ? ai-je demandé.
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"Well, in ordercommande to reproducereproduire."
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- Pour se reproduire.
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"Well, why?"
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- Mais pourquoi ? »
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And I thought that they'dils auraient probablyProbablement say, "Well, it's all about sexsexe."
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Je me suis dit qu'ils allaient probablement me répondre que « tout tourne autour du sexe ».
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And ChipPuce TaylorTaylor, our monarchmonarque butterflypapillon expertexpert,
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Mais Chip Taylor, notre spécialiste des papillons monarques,
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he repliedrépondu, "Nothing lastsdure foreverpour toujours.
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a répondu : « Car rien n'est éternel.
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Everything in the universeunivers wearsporte out."
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Tout dans l'univers finit par disparaître. »
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And that blewa soufflé my mindesprit.
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Et ça, ça m'a fait halluciner.
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Because I realizedréalisé
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Parce que je me suis rendu compte
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that naturela nature had inventeda inventé reproductionla reproduction
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que la nature avait inventé la reproduction
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as a mechanismmécanisme for life to movebouge toi forwardvers l'avant,
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pour assurer la continuité de la vie,
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as a life forceObliger that passespasses right throughpar us
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comme une force vitale qui nous traverse
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and makesfait du us a linklien in the evolutionévolution of life.
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et fait de nous un maillon de l'évolution de la vie.
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RarelyRarement seenvu by the nakednu eyeœil,
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Rarement vu à l'œil nu,
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this intersectionintersection
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ce croisement
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betweenentre the animalanimal worldmonde and the plantplante worldmonde
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entre le monde animal et le monde végétal
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is trulyvraiment a magicla magie momentmoment.
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est un moment véritablement magique.
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It's the mysticalmystique momentmoment
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C'est le moment mystique
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where life regeneratesse régénère itselfse,
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où la vie ne cesse de se régénérer,
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over and over again.
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encore et encore.
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So here is some nectarnectar from my filmfilm.
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Je vous invite donc à goûter le nectar de mon film.
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I hopeespérer you'lltu vas drinkboisson, tweetTweet
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J'espère que vous le boirez, que vous gazouillerez
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and plantplante some seedsdes graines
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et que vous irez planter des graines
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to pollinatepolliniser a friendlyamical gardenjardin.
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pour polliniser un jardin accueillant.
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And always take time to smellodeur the flowersfleurs,
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N'oubliez pas de prendre le temps de sentir les fleurs,
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and let it fillremplir you with beautybeauté,
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de les laisser vous emplir de leur beauté
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and rediscoverredécouvrir that sensesens of wondermerveille.
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et de redécouvrir ce sentiment d'émerveillement.
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Here are some imagesimages from the filmfilm.
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Voici quelques images du film.
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Thank you.
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Je vous remercie.
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Thank you very much.
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Merci beaucoup.
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Thank you.
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Merci.
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Translated by Stefan Grand-Schaffert
Reviewed by Elisabeth Buffard

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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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