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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/gbHEZpPKb3k Claudia Casper is the author of four novels. Her most recent, The Mercy  Journals, a post climate change, post apocalyptic, story about murder,  memory, and the evolution of the new, won the 2017 Philip K. Dick Award  for distinguished science fiction. Human evolution is a driving theme in  all her work, starting with her best selling debut novel, The  Reconstruction, about a woman whose life is falling apart just as she’s  hired by a museum to do an anatomically precise reconstruction of Lucy,  the famous fossil of a female Australopithecus afarensis, a 3 million  year old species on the complex bush of human evolution. In 2018 she was  the Whistler writer in residence and a speaker at TedX Vancouver - How  to Write Like a Writer.  Learn more about the festival at: www.naturethroughhereyes.com 