Jeff Orlowski-Yang

Mountainfilm’s 2022 Guest Director, photographer and filmmaker Jeff Orlowski-Yang, is the founder and president of Exposure Labs, a film and impact production studio that uses stories to change the world. Most recently, he directed the hit Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma (2020), which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for seven primetime Emmy awards, winning two. Previously, he was the director, producer and cinematographer of the award-winning feature documentaries Chasing Coral (Mountainfilm 2017 & 2022) and Chasing Ice (Mountainfilm 2012 & 2022), which screened at Congress and the United Nations and garnered awards and accolades around the globe. He has also directed several short and alternative media pieces, including Chasing Coral’s VR experience and VICE’s Living with Jaguars 360° film. 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 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. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.