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 The Nature: Through Her Eyes festival was a special event with free  admission celebrating and highlighting women’s roles in storytelling  about nature and the environment, including writers, photographers,  filmmakers, as well as camera and sound operators.The festival was held in Perpignan, France from October 18-21st, 2019  with presenters from the media, literature, academia and research, and  legal and commercial worlds. Programming included professional  workshops, seminars, film screenings, and mentoring, and these videos offer a glimpse into the 4 days of exciting events. The UPVD was a partner of the event.https://youtu.be/fTkXZcPSlMYVanessa Berlowitz co-founded Wildstar Films in 2018 after 28 years of  running teams and making award winning wildlife films and documentaries.  She is currently an Executive Producer on a number of new series for  National Geographic Channel and is working on a film with her husband,  Mark Linfield, for Disneynature. Vanessa spent the first 24 years of her  career working at the BBC Natural History Unit and made over 15 films  for 5 internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning, landmark series –  Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, Life of Mammals, Land of the Tiger and the  Human Animal – as well as for major long-running strands and series such  as The Natural World, Wildlife on One, Animal People and Postcards from  the Country.  The films she has worked on with her teams have been  highly awarded by EMMY, BAFTA, RTS, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival,  Missoula International Wildlife Festival and Wildscreen. She is an EMMY  nominated writer and a BAFTA and Grierson nominated Director. She won a  Primetime EMMY as the Series Producer of Frozen Planet and then went on  to become a lead Executive Producer for the BBC, developing, winning  and producing Great Bear Stakeout, Life in the Air and Planet Earth 2. Learn more about the festival at: www.naturethroughhereyes.com 