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Cynthia Moses

Founder of Moses Films Ltd.

Executive Director and President of the International Conservation and Education Fund

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Moses began her television career for ABC News in New York then London as an assignment editor managing crews, editing teams, correspondents, and logistics throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at the height of the war in Lebanon. While at ABC she served as a temporary Moscow Bureau Producer and did radio news. She also produced live feeds for Nightline and Good Morning America.

In 1985 she began working as an associate producer for CBS 60 Minutes out of their London Bureau traveling on her own throughout Europe, Asia and Africa to research, acquire permissions, and set up logistics for segments that spanned a variety of topics, AIDS in Uganda, Czechoslovakian Tennis Players, Child Prostitution in Thailand.

In 1988 she returned to the United States to work as an Associate Producer for National Geographic Television, researching and developing programming as varied as The French Foreign Legion, German U-boats and The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall. In 1992 she joined an expedition across an unexplored rainforest in the Republic of Congo and filmed an award-winning segment for Explorer’s Journal.

Moses’ work as a wildlife filmmaker has received honors from fellow filmmakers – among these 1995 winner at Jackson Hole for best behavior and 2000 winner at the New York Film Festival – and by the scientific community – 1996 winner of Animal Behavioral Society Award. In 2000 her film on Odzala National Park was instrumental in achieving an expansion of that park to four times its original size.

She has also produced and directed films for Discovery Channel’s Discover Magazine series receiving scientists’ praise from M.I.T to Berkeley for the integrity of her work. Her scripts from that series have been used as science-writing examples at seminars sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Besides producing films for National Geographic and Discovery, she produced, directed and wrote the first natural history two-hour special for the Arts and Entertainment Network – also the first film to address all three known subspecies of gorillas.

Moses has appeared on the Today Show and MSNBC. Moses has been a featured speaker at Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum and The National Zoo. She has served on panels to discuss careers in television, the state of conservation films, and was a judge at the International Wildlife Film Festival in 2004. As a result of her work in the remote jungles of central Africa she has been featured in articles in Outside Magazine and Adventure. She has also served as a consultant for the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force and The Humane Society of the United States.

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