Bo Boudart

San Mateo, California, United States

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Bo Boudart has written, produced, and directed documentary, promotional, dramatic, and educational programs for 30 years.

Bo Boudart is a producer and director/cameraman with 30 years experience.  He has produced scientific and natural history programs for the NOVA PBS series, the Discovery Channel’s primetime SciTrek series, and distributed in Rand McNally’s Video Expeditions. Boudart’s award winning documentaries have covered marine and arctic ecosystems, temperate and tropical rainforests, indigenous cultures in Ecuador and Peru’s upper Amazon, Tropical Australia & Aborigines of the Outback, the Inupiat Eskimos and Athabascans of Alaska’s Arctic. the World Conservation Union for the protection of the world’s Coral Reefs. <h2 class="p1">In Production:</h2> Paying the Price For Peace Right Makes Might Fish or Gold   <h2 class="p1">Released Films</h2> Islands of Life  1 hr film about celebrating Bahamas land and sea national parks, and success of the Bahamas National Trust & its fisheries as an island nation. Released in 2012 Toxic Assets   The story about the world’s biggest gold mine to be built in headwaters of Alaska’s biggest salmon rivers and how the State and Indigenous Alaskan communities deal with this proposed project,  Released in 2011.  No Clearcut Solution: Alaska's Rainforest   The story of how conservationists & loggers are auctioning off America’s largest temperate rainforest and what is at stake. Released in 2010  The Sea Is Our Life Best Live Short Subject, American Indian Film Festival Inuit Best Documentary finalist New York Festivals    The Friendly Gray Whales Silver Apple Award, National Educational Film & Video Festival   Oil on Ice  Cine Golden Eagle, IDA Best Documentary.  Story of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling. Power Paths, Best Native American film, Traildance Film Festival, documentary aired nationally on PBS, Native Americans lead a new nationwide movement toward renewable energy development as tribes push for Renewable energy Alaska; Story of a Dream National Emmy Nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary Science of Whales Cine Golden Eagle for Best Science Documentary  Best documentary, Animal Behavior Film Festival, Columbus,OH    OTHER PRIME TIME TV DOCUMENTARIES:   Deep Under the Ice 1 hr Sci-Trek for Discovery Channel,  producer  Using NASA technology to find shipwrecks off Alaska,2000 Science of Whales  1 hr documentary for Discovery Channel  Cine Golden Eagle, Whales’ use of sound in communication & predation & man’s new sonar technology   producer, director of photography,1998, Cine Golden Eagle, ’97, Best Animal Behavior Columbus Film Festival,97 The Elephant Seals of Ano Nuevo    About the marine mammal migration:   for San Mateo Park & Reserve ‘96 The Elk of California   Educational program about conservation of species for CA State Dept of Game,  Alaska’s Whales & Wildlife  1 hr. documentary for Discovery, producer, director of photography ‘90 Umealit:  The Whale Hunters  1 hr. NOVA for WGBH,  writer, co-producer, camera:  Eskimo whaling controversy & use of science to determine migration & census ‘81  Journey to Steinbeck’s Baja  1 hr special for PBS, director of photography, based on Doc Ricketts & Steinbeck’s trip in the “Log from the Sea of Cortez”, 1992 Why Hunt  30 minute documentary about subsistence issues in Alaska, writer, producer, ‘83 The Friendly Gray Whales    Silver Apple Award, producer, dp about their biology & migration from Alaska to Baja Silver Apple Award, National Educational Film & Video Festival, ‘90 Alaska’s Arctic Wildlife 1 hr documentary for Discovery Ch.  writer, producer, videographer, 1997 Alaska: Story of a Dream  1 hr documentary, National Emmy Nomination Best Cinematography, 1982  camera.    Syndicated network Special about Alaskans’ perspectives of living remotely  The Sea Is Our Life  25 min Best Live Short Subject; American Indian Film Festival producer, dp, 1980  Eskimo subsistence & offshore oil development issue When Kenai Kings Run  writer, producer for Alaska PBS on salmon  management issues, ‘83 Indonesia:  Jeweled Archipelago  1 hr documentary ofor IVN, producer, videographer, 1996 The Philippines:  Pearls of the Pacific  1 hr documentary for IVN, producer, videographer, 1996 Southern Africa Safari  1 hr documentary for Rand McNally, writer, producer, videographer, 1995 Discovering the Amazon and the Andes  1 hr documentary for Rand McNally writer, videographer producer, 1994 Exploring the Galapagos  1 hr documentary for Rand McNally  writer, producer, videographer,91 INUIT  30 min. 1st circumpolar gathering of Eskimos from Canada, Alaska & Greenland writer, videographer, producer, 1978  Rope to Our Roots 3rd Circumpolar Gathering of Eskimos in Nuuk, Greenland, ‘81 Iditarod  1 hour documentary of Alaska’s 1100 mile dogsled race. ‘77 CBS Special <h3 class="p3">Awards:</h3>   <ul> <li class="p1">Pare Lorentz Award, International Documentary Association</li> <li class="p1">Best Conservation & Environmental Film, International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula</li> <li class="p1">Calypso Award, Moondance International Film Festival, Boulder</li> <li class="p1">Silver Plaque, Chicago International TV Awards, </li> <li class="p1">2 Cine Golden Eagle Awards</li> <li class="p1">Official Selection:</li> <li class="p1">Toronto International Environmental Film Festival </li> <li class="p1">Green Screen Environmental Film Festival, San Francisco</li> <li class="p1">Mountain Film Festival, Telluride</li> <li class="p1">Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Nevada City</li> <li class="p1">Muddy River Environmental Film Festival, Boston</li> <li class="p1">EarthVision Environmental Film Festival, Santa Cruz </li> <li class="p1">Indigenous Rights Film Festival, Washington DC</li> <li class="p1">Artivist Film Festival, Los Angeles, official selection</li> <li class="p1">Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, selection</li> <li class="p1">United Nations Association Film Festival, selection</li> </ul> <div> </div> <h3 class="p6">Education:</h3> M.A. Film SF State University ‘90, B.A. Communications, Gonzaga University ’71, Stanford University Mass Media Institute     Associations:  <ul> <li class="p1">International Documentary Association</li> <li class="p1">Film Arts Foundation</li> <li class="p1">PADI Diving Association</li> <li class="p1">Sierra Club</li> <li class="p1">Northern Alaska Environmental Center</li> <li class="p1">Explorers Club</li> <li class="p1">Bay Area Video Coalition</li> </ul>

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