Great Salt Lake in Crisis | Geralyn Dreyfous & Erika Cohen | TEDxParkCityWomen
Two women invested in saving Utah's Great Salt Lake delve into the environmental and social issues surrounding the shrinking inland sea, and share video clips from documentary projects. Geralyn Dreyfous has taught classes with colleague and writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams on Great Salt Lake at Harvard Divinity School. Geralyn White Dreyfous is an American film producer with a wide, distinguished background in the arts. Geralyn’s independent executive producing and producing credits include the Academy Award winning BORN INTO BROTHELS (2004); Academy Award nominated and Peabody Award winning THE INVISIBLE WAR (2012), Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning THE SQUARE (2013), and Emmy Award winning 16 SHOTS (2019). Geralyn stands as Founder and Board Chair of Utah Film Center, Co-Founder of Impact Partners, and a founding member of Gamechanger Films.Erika Cohn is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director and producer of documentary films. She has won a Peabody Award for her film The Judge and has also won Emmys for her films Belly of the Beast and In Football We Trust.Her work has also been featured on PBS' Independent Lens. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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