Chris Palmer is an environmental and wildlife film producer who in 2009 received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Media at the International Wildlife Film Festival He is president of the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation, which produces IMAX films, and he is also a professor on the full-time faculty at American University where he founded and directs the Center for Environmental Filmmaking. He is the president of the One World Ocean Foundation and serves on 14 nonprofit boards. He and his colleagues have won numerous awards, including two Emmys, an Oscar nomination and, most recently, the Environmental Film Educator of the Decade Award at the Green Globe Film Awards. His book, Shooting in the Wild: An Insider’s Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom, was published May 2010 by Sierra Club Books.