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Peter Getzels

Peter Getzels is an Emmy-Award winning documentary producer, director and cinematographer. In addition to documentaries he leads a team in the production for Closer to Truth, a high-end science series on cosmology, consciousness and meaning. Closer to Truth is now in its 16th season on PBS. In the UK Peter produced independent documentaries with Harriet for Channel 4 and BBC, working for the BBC Science Department on one of the first co-productions between Discovery and BBC. In the US he worked on staff at National Geographic, producing a wide range of adventure/history films and series for Explorer. Peter was trained as an Anthropologist and worked professionally as a climber and explorer throughout South America and the Himalayas.

Harriet Gordon Getzels

Once an American ex-pat living in the UK, now a British ex-pat living in the US, Harriet Gordon Getzels has a long track record of award-winning independent documentaries made with Peter for British, American and European television. Her subjects range from long-term character-driven narratives to cutting edge science, and the fringes of religion. Her short digital narratives combine still photography with video, and take on subjects from the environment to brain science to addiction. In the US she has produced for National Geographic, Discovery and HDNet. Based in Oxford, England for sixteen years and now in Washington DC, Harriet is co-owner of Getzels Gordon Productions. She is also an award-winning writer of narrative non-fiction.