Jeff Orlowski-Yang

Jeff Orlowski-Yang is the founder and creative director of Exposure Labs, a film and impact production studio that uses stories to change the world, and was Mountainfilm’s festival guest director in 2022. Orlowski-Yang directed the Sundance-premiering, Emmy-winning documentaries The Social Dilemma (2020), Chasing Coral (Mountainfilm 2017) and Chasing Ice (Mountainfilm 2012), which were seen by hundreds of millions worldwide and screened everywhere from classrooms and local communities to Capitol Hill and the United Nations. Orlowski-Yang has traveled on tour representing the Sundance Institute, President Obama's Committee for the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment of the Arts, among many other speaking and press engagements. Orlowski-Yang won the 2017 Champion of the Earth Award, the UN's highest environmental honor, and serves on the boards of Green 2.0 and Netflix’s Sustainability Advisory Group. He served as Mountainfilm's Guest Director in 2022, and most recently co-directed Chasing Time (Mountainfilm 2024). He lives in Boulder, Colorado.