#007 Sean Peoples, Documentary Filmmaker

Sean Peoples is an award-winning international film producer who documents strong and compelling personal stories and weaves them with major global issues and policy questions. It is a unique form of storytelling. Until recently, Peoples was a multimedia producer/program associate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he spent 9.5 years. He is now a producer at Think Out Loud Productions. Peoples has been heralded by The New York Times as one of a “new generation of visual communicators who are breaking down conventional definitions of media.” People’s latest film, Broken Landscape: Confronting India’s Water-Energy Choke Point, premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2015. Since then, it has been selected for a number of film festivals including the Athens International Film + Video Festival. The film focuses on the battle between coal mining and water quality in a remote area of India. It features the human stories behind a battle between clean and safe resources and jobs and economic survival. It has won numerous awards including a Silver Telly Award where it was selected for recognition from over 12,000 entries. Recently it was shown on CNN India to over 54 million viewers.