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Hal Uplinger

Broadcast Production

Hal Uplinger is both a Humanitarian and Producer. He was the Producer of the LIVE AID Concert (Philadelphia) considered the most technically complex broadcast in the history of the media. He was responsible for the television production, international TV negotiations and distribution, as well as satellite transmission. His other credits include Sport Aid, Our Common Future, Earth ’90, Viva Terra Viva, the Millennium telecast and most recently, The Great China Wall Concert.

His principal Humanitarian efforts are through Humanitad. Humanitad is an international non-governmental, non-profit, self-funding organization committed to the promotion of interfaith and intercultural tolerance and fellowship between all nations and faiths. Humanitad accomplishes this through global arts and cultural exposition, education and the facilitation of coherent and progressive exchange amongst international leadership.

With his busy schedule, bringing both his Humanitarian and Global Production skills to the MDG Awards Committee is an example of his desire to help build a better world.

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Kim Kindersley

Web Campgain Director

Since 1990 Kim has been making documentary films all over the world. From 1991’s The Dolphin’s Gift up to the present day, with international award winning film Whaledreamers, about to be released theatrically all over the world including USA, Australia and the UK. www.whaledreamers,com

His non profit project in based in California Heart Magic works with the International Humanities Center and is dedicated to helping preserve indigenous wisdom. He completed his first full length documentary “The Dolphins Gift” in 1991 based on his encounter with a wild hermit dolphin, Fungie, from Dingle Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. “It was a meeting that profoundly changed my perspective on life.”

Two years later, in 1993, Kindersley completed his second film, “The Dolphins Story”, narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Kim travelled to Belize, Central America after hearing about another friendly female dolphin, Peto. This warm tale of a young girl’s dream to swim with a dolphin in the wild earned Kindersley a finalist place in the US Television Awards for “Best Director”.

For his third film, Kim collaborated with producer Adrian Mondsey in 1994 to make “The Dolphin, a Magical, Musical Mystery” with Julian Lennon, featuring Van Morrison, members of the Irish band Clannad and musicians Howard Blake, Raff Ravenscroft and Eddi Reader.

After an inspiring meeting through his friend Pierce Brosnan with the Dalai Lama in Tibet in 1999, Kindersley helped raise $400,000 through The Pierce’s Family Foundation, for the Dalai Lama school in Katmandu.

He is currently working on a number of projects including www.circleupnow.org working with Amnesty International and The Elders who include Nelson Mandela and Kofi Anan, it is a huge global grass roots campaign to inspire the world to recognize that we need to collectively uphold the declaration of Human Rights. His next film project is called It’s Time and will document many major positive events taking place around the world to build a sustainable future including the Circle Up Now events.

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Louis Horvitz

Broadcast Direction

Lou recently directed his 12th Academy Awards show. He recently added a fifth Emmy® Award to his mantel for his achievement in directing the Annual Academy Awards. He has received a total of eight Emmy nominations and four Emmy Awards for his Oscar® telecast work.

Horvitz just directed the most recent Emmy Awards (his 12th time) and completed his 15th stint directing both "The Kennedy Center Honors" and "The American Film Institute Life Achievement Award." This year, he completed his 11th year as executive producer-director of "An Evening of Stars" and directed "The 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards."

In a career that has spanned three decades, Horvitz has helmed numerous other high-profile programs including the "Daytime Emmy Awards," "The Kids Choice Awards," "CBS at 75," "Lifetime’s Achievement Awards: Women Changing the World," VH-1’s "DIVAS," "Macy’s July 4th Spectacular," "The 2004 MTV Movie Awards," "The Bad Boys of Comedy," "The VH-1 Concert for New York City" benefiting survivors of 9/11, and "U2 Half Time at the Superbowl."

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Chris Wangro

Event Production

Over the last 20 years, Christopher Wangro has made significant contributions to the art and production of live spectacles.

His credits include:

  • Producer, "Imagine: Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas," the largest political arts festival to ever take place in the United States
  • Director City-Wide Special Events for NYC. Credits include three largest events to ever take place in Central Park: "Earth Day '90," "Paul Simon's Concert in the Park" and "Pavarotti's Concert In The Park"
  • Founder and Director, Janus Circus [1]
  • Producer, Presidents Summit for America's Future
  • Producer, Papal youth rally April 2008

Wangro's ability to create innovative public spectacle was recognized by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation; in 1988 he was recruited to produce free public events in that city’s parks. In 1990, he became the City-Wide Director of Special Events, and is credited with reinstating "Mega-Events" to Central Park where he oversaw the three largest public events in that Park's history: "Earth Day '90," "Paul Simon's Concert in the Park, August 15, 1991" and "Pavarotti's Concert In The Park," among hundreds of other events each year.

In 1994, Wangro resigned his position at Parks to begin his own firm, Zaragunda Inc. Working under the banner of Zaragunda, he has operated as an independent producer across an uncommonly broad range of disciplines, spanning the fields of music, entertainment, marketing, arts & politics. The impressive number and vast scale of the projects he took on, and his infectious energetic approach to producing, gained him a reputation as a true New York City impresario. Ever the juggler, Wangro spent several years running Zaragunda while acting as Executive Producer and "Vice President of Fun and Profit" for The John Schreiber Group, a national events marketing firm responsible for hundreds of events, touring programs and annual festivals.

After years of producing for the commercial and public sector, Wangro began dedicating his time to the creation of public spectacle and events for social causes. In 2003, he teamed up with award winning theatrical designer Tal Yarden, to create NY, America: a hybrid not-for-profit organization that unites the arts world with the community of social justice organizations. NY, America's first effort, "The Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas," coincided with the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. With over 200 events in six days, "The Imagine Festival" was the largest political arts festival to ever take place in the United States and has served as a model for arts and political organizations throughout the country. Wangro received an Obie Award for Imagine and went on to create events for many more social justice organizations including UNAIDS, the United Federation of Teachers, Care for the Homeless and an anti-war concert called "Bring 'Em Home," which benefited Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace.

Wangro continues his work with Zaragunda, The Usual Suspects and NY, America while acting as a consultant and advisor to a number of marketing firms, arts and social justice organizations. Wangro is based in New York City, and Woodstock, New York.

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Marius Milcher

I.T Liaison

Marius began working in web development 7 years ago and has since helped numerous SMEs with the realization of their online presence. In 2006 he undertook the re-development of the Humanitad Foundation web portal and is now developing Humanitad IT programs and strategy.

Marius is a member of the British Computer Society and Web Standards Group and was recently also a member of the judging panel for the Shell Small Technology Enterprise Program (Shell STEP) finals, at Shell House in London.

A German national, he grew up in the UK and is fluent in both English and German.

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Zen Player

I.T Affairs

Zen brings over 30 years of experience in strategic marketing, media design & business development, including interactive entertainment, advertising and learning methodologies. Zen developed revolutionary systems for personal, academic and professional education – called EDgames (or Learning Games), as well as new forms of interactive Advertising – called ADgames – as well as an advanced market-research system called 'Dreamographics', that gathers volunteered in-depth consumer data without invasion of privacy.

Zen conceived the original vision of the HumaniSphere in response to Humanitad's need for a globally robust and egalitarian virtual platform – allowing millions of individuals, groups and organizations to interact, share, collaborate and resolve the world's most pressing problems.

Zen provides a profound understanding and complex application of new, innovative, interactive systems and non-invasive data-gathering mechanisms to all forms of entertainment, advertising, marketing, educational & learning environments. His skills include strategic planning, concept development, interactive systems architecture, creative direction, technical & creative copywriting, design, production & project leadership.

Zen lives in Byron Bay Australia with his wife, daughter and nearly newborn son...

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