Mariah Wilson: Anything To See A Forest Elephant
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, we get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to film a wildlife conservation documentary.
Part 1: Documentary producer Mariah Wilson is days into making her film about the endangered Forest Elephant and still hasn’t seen one.
Part 2: Science Journalist Katherine J. Wu interviews Mariah Wilson to learn more about the stars of her documentary Silent Forests.
Mariah Wilson is a documentary producer and director with a focus on wildlife conservation whose work has taken her to six continents. She has worked on series for PBS, Amazon, Netflix, National Geographic, Vice, A&E, Al Jazeera, History, Mongabay, Discovery, Animal Planet, and more. Her 2019 feature documentary SILENT FORESTS is about the fight to save forest elephants from ivory trafficking in Africa’s Congo Basin. It screened at Santa Barbara, Big Sky (Finalist – Feature Competition), Brooklyn Film Festival (Spirit Award), Jackson Wild WWD (Winner – Stories of Hope) and is a One World Media Award Winner. Mariah’s other producing credits include MADINA’S DREAM (SXSW, Telluride Mountainfilm), MARY JANES (Woodstock, Mill Valley), END OF THE LINE (DOC NYC), and most recently the Amazon Studios film WILDCAT (Sundance Doc Fund, Telluride, AFI, IDFA, National Board of Review Top 5 Documentaries of 2022) Mariah is passionate about illuminating the myriad intersections between humans and animals, and celebrating those dedicated to protecting wildlife. She is a proud Jackson Wild Summit Fellow (2021) and Explorer’s Club Fellow. More at: www.mariahewilson.com
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| 0:34.0 | I was so... |
| 0:35.3 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:50.8 | Hey, everyone. |
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| 1:19.1 | main reason I decided, kind of stupidly, to sign up for a 30-mile trail race a few years ago |
| 1:24.9 | in the mountains of Vermont. A good friend convinced me to run and I figured, |
| 1:29.3 | sure, why not? The problem was there were only about 15 other people running this very, very |
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| 1:42.0 | hour into the race, I found myself running alone, totally unsure of whether |
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