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Environmental Media Initiative

Strange Days on Planet Earth

The One Degree Factor

Friday, December 2nd / 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Marine Science Institute Auditorium
UCTV Broadcast

An episode of National Geographic’s Strange Days on Planet Earth and discussion with Executive Producer Richard Hutton
(VP, Media Development, Vulcan Productions; Advisory Board member, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media)

The four-part Strange Days on Planet Earth series has received many honors including Best Television Series at the 2005 International Wildlife Film Festival and the Panda Award for Best Series at the Wildscreen 2004 Film Festival. “The One Degree Factor” won the Natural History Museum One Planet Award for its look at global warming.

Richard Hutton oversees the feature film and documentary teams at Vulcan Productions. His documentaries include Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated The Blues: Martin Scorsese Presents (2003); Black Sky: The Race for Space; Black Sky: Winning The X-Prize; and the concert film Lightning in a Bottle (all 2004). In 2005, Vulcan Productions has two series airing on PBS: RX for Survival, a six-part series on global health, co-produced with WGBH, and Strange Days on Planet Earth, a four-part series on the environment, co-produced with National Geographic.

Hutton’s vast experience also includes: executive producer of the critically acclaimed PBS series, Evolution (2001), co-produced by the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions; senior vice president of creative development at Walt Disney Imagineering; vice president and general manager of the Disney Institute, where he directed the transition of the organization from an idea into an operating business; senior vice president, television programming and production, for WETA Television in Washington, D.C.; and Director of Public Affairs Programming for WNET Television in New York. There, his projects included the award-winning The Brain (1984) and The Mind (1988). Hutton has authored or co-authored nine books, medical texts, and articles for national publications. Hutton holds a B.A. degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley. Hutton is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Film, Television and New Media.

The Environmental Media Initiative of the Center for Film, Television, and New Media brings together faculty throughout the sciences and liberal arts at UC Santa Barbara who are engaged in environmental and media related issues.

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