Louie Schwartzberg

Louie Schwartzberg

Chief Creative Honcho at Moving Art

TED Speaker
TED Attendee
Los Angeles, California, United States
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About Louie

I am a…

Activist, Artist, Brainstormer, Change agent, Environmentalist, Explorer, Filmmaker, Idea generator, Producer, Social entrepreneur

Bio

Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning cinematographer, director and producer whose notable career spans more than four decades providing breathtaking imagery using his time-lapse, high-speed and macro cinematography techniques. Schwartzberg is a visual artist who breaks barriers, connects with audiences, and tells stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people, and places. Louie’s recent theatrical releases include the 3D IMAX film Mysteries of the Unseen World with National Geographic, narrated by Forest Whitaker, and the documentary Wings of Life for Disneynature, narrated by Meryl Streep. Mysteries is a journey into invisible worlds that are too slow, too fast, too small and too vast for the human eye to see, while Wings of Life focuses on pollination and the web of life. Louie also directed Soarin’ Around the World, a ride film projected on an upside down Imax dome screen, now showing at Disney Parks in Anaheim, Orlando and Shanghai. Designed to inspire, educate and evolve our perspective on the world, Schwartzberg creates and curates Moving Art™ videos, which can be found on your smart phone and Netflix. The Moving Art™ series will be expanded from six to thirteen videos in May 2017. Louie’s three TED talks have gone viral with almost 50 million combined views. His Gratitude Revealed series of shorts were launched on Oprah.com. Supported by the Templeton Foundation, with science and analytics by the Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley, the series explores the multifaceted virtues of gratitude. Louie is the first filmmaker to be inducted into the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Lemelson Foundation’s Invention Ambassadors Program. For Schwartzberg, the greatest satisfaction is creating works that can have a positive effect on the future of the planet. “I hope my films inspire and open people’s hearts. Beauty is nature’s tool for survival – we protect what we love. Nature’s beauty can open hearts, and inspire the shift in consciousness we need to sustain and celebrate life.”

I'm passionate about

nature, turning people on to beauty, springer spaniels, capturing the fantastic, watching flowers dance to the light, body surfing, sea turtles, making movies.

An idea worth spreading

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival because we protect what we Love. Beauty is a force of Energy that keeps Life moving forward.

Areas of expertise

3D Large Format Films, boogie boarding, chasing the Light, Cinematography, digital high speed cinematography, Having fun, Time Lapse

Things you might not know

making connections, having fun, playing pool for money, ping pong, frisbee and hitting curve balls