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Ginger Kathrens - Producer/ Cinematographer
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GINGER KATHRENS is an Emmy Award-winning producer, cinematographer, writer and editor as well as an award-winning author. Her documentary filmmaking trips have taken her to Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America and all over the U.S. She filmed and produced the acclaimed Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies and Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns for WNET's Nature series on PBS. Cloud will return to PBS in November with Cloud: Challenge of The Stallions. Five years in the making, it is Kathrens' next chapter in the life of the charismatic wild stallion she has documented since his birth in May of 1995. Ginger's revealing journey with wild horses has been compared to Jane Goodall's experiences with Chimpanzees. Her documentation of Cloud represents the only continuing chronicle of a wild animal from birth in our hemisphere.Kathrens was the co-producer and cinematographer of the two-hour Discovery Channel special, Spirits of the Rainforest, which won two Emmy Awards including one for Best Documentary. Additional projects for Discovery included The Ultimate Guide: Horses and The Ultimate Guide: Dogs. Kathrens also wrote, edited, and produced over two dozen segments of the Wild America series for PBS, and has filmed for National Geographic, Animal Planet and the BBC.
He has given speeches and written manyarticles, including encyclopedic, and several books. His works are both popular and scientific, in English, Spanish and translated to German. Several of these concern wild horses, their ecological contribution, their North American evolutionary roots, their great natural and social value and their survival plight. He is a member of the World Conservation Union, Species Survival Commission and has written the Action Plan for the mountain tapir (1997).
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Top corporations, law firms, government agencies and non-profit organizations have enlisted Anni over the past 25 years to provide highly specialized communication consulting services. She helped start-up a successful 501(c)(3) that later served as a model for other state agency and private sector alcohol abuse prevention programs and successfully handled risk management issues as an Executive Director to an international trade association. Anni also directed numerous grassroots and advocacy programs for regional and statewide political campaigns and ran her own Top 25 ranked San Francisco Bay Area public relations firm. Also regarded as an expert in witness preparation and trial communication strategy, Anni presently consults with prominent law firms across the country to tackle challenging legal cases.
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Rob Pliskin began gentling wild horses in 1998 at national workshops presented by the US DOI – BLM Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Program. In December 2006, while a trainer at Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue in Lancaster, CA; he developed clinics in Equestrian Education and brought the EAGALA model to Lifesavers. 
In 2005, Lisa Friday was given the book "Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies" as a Christmas gift by her mother. This started her on the path of helping to save the wild horses. As a wild horse advocate turned activist, Lisa has attended round-ups, investigated, videoed and reported on BLM short and long-term holding facilities, arranged for meetings with Congressional representatives of the Appropriations Committee concerned with budgeting for wild horse roundups; and most heartwarming, has adopted Cloud's daughter Rain from the Pryor Mountain round-up of 2009. Lisa is committed to educating the highly visible horse industry in the Eastern United States. Her presentations of wild horse and burro issues have been presented at several hunt clubs, riding clubs, and schools throughout Virginia.
A few years ago a friend suggested that one of the young fillies belonging to Linda's daughter resembled the pale palomino stallion in the PBS "Nature" program and shared the video with her. Linda was surprised to learn about this wild herd for the first time, even though she had previously lived in Montana for nearly 10 years. In the summer of 2009, she and her husband, Vic, decided to travel north and learn more about Cloud and the herd of wild horses who lived in the Pryor Mtns. Since then they have traveled there several times a year, to experience the magic of the wild mustangs on the mountain top and canyon area. About the same time, an active group of wild horse advocates became active in Ft. Collins, Northern Colorado Wild Horse and Burro Partners, and Linda became active in that group--through educational meetings, research, rallies and protests, meetings with USGS research teams, and an intense sharing of knowledge.
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