Jeff Horowitz
- Producer
- Director
Jeffrey Samuel Horowitz was born in New York City in 1952. He is an environmental activist and a television and movie producer specializing in stories about climate change.
Jeff serves as a co-executive producer of the "Years of Living Dangerously" an 8 part climate change docu-series that premiered on Showtime in 2014. The series is headed up by James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger and founded by acclaimed 60 Minutes executive producers David Gelber and Joel Bach. YLD was awarded the Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Series in 2014. Horowitz recruited and helped direct Harrison Ford as the story correspondent and narrator for the episodes focused on climate and tropical deforestation. Jeff is currently working on stories for YLD Season 2, which will be broadcast on National Geographic late Fall of 2016.
Jeff also served as an executive producer for Charles Ferguson climate change solutions documentary "Time to Choose," to be released May of 2016. Ferguson won the Academy Award for "Inside Job" in 2010. In this latest effort, Ferguson's new climate film underscores the urgent need for the world to take action to combat global warming.
"Stop the Burning," a short environmental film was independently produced by Horowitz and is narrated by Dr. Jane Goodall. It debuted in Paris at the December 2015 global climate summit and featured at key climate change events. The film focuses on the horrifying realities of the out of control practice of "slash and burn agriculture".
Prior to his work on media projects, in 2007, under the guidance of the Center for International Policy in Washington DC, Horowitz and a small group of environmentalists, founded Avoided Deforestation Partners, (www.adpartners.org), a global network of prominent individuals dedicated to advancing U.S. and international climate policies, with particular focus on ending tropical deforestation.
Over the years, AD Partners has convened scores of impactful, high-level events featuring prominent global voices including; HRH Prince Charles, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, Sir Richard Branson, Actor/Environmentalist Ed Norton, financier George Soros, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, World Bank Presidents, heads of major corporations (such as Unilever, Nestle, Wal-Mart, Coca Cola), prominent NGO leaders, and many high-ranking U.S. government officials, from former US President Bill Clinton to President Barack Obama. ADP has become internationally recognized for facilitating partnerships between major corporations and governments to produce agricultural commodity supply chains that are deforestation-free.
When not working on climate issues, Jeff and his wife Lynn own and operate Rio Lago, a Sonoma County vineyard in the Alexander Valley that specializes in growing high-quality cabernet wine grapes.
Jeff serves as a co-executive producer of the "Years of Living Dangerously" an 8 part climate change docu-series that premiered on Showtime in 2014. The series is headed up by James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger and founded by acclaimed 60 Minutes executive producers David Gelber and Joel Bach. YLD was awarded the Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Series in 2014. Horowitz recruited and helped direct Harrison Ford as the story correspondent and narrator for the episodes focused on climate and tropical deforestation. Jeff is currently working on stories for YLD Season 2, which will be broadcast on National Geographic late Fall of 2016.
Jeff also served as an executive producer for Charles Ferguson climate change solutions documentary "Time to Choose," to be released May of 2016. Ferguson won the Academy Award for "Inside Job" in 2010. In this latest effort, Ferguson's new climate film underscores the urgent need for the world to take action to combat global warming.
"Stop the Burning," a short environmental film was independently produced by Horowitz and is narrated by Dr. Jane Goodall. It debuted in Paris at the December 2015 global climate summit and featured at key climate change events. The film focuses on the horrifying realities of the out of control practice of "slash and burn agriculture".
Prior to his work on media projects, in 2007, under the guidance of the Center for International Policy in Washington DC, Horowitz and a small group of environmentalists, founded Avoided Deforestation Partners, (www.adpartners.org), a global network of prominent individuals dedicated to advancing U.S. and international climate policies, with particular focus on ending tropical deforestation.
Over the years, AD Partners has convened scores of impactful, high-level events featuring prominent global voices including; HRH Prince Charles, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, Sir Richard Branson, Actor/Environmentalist Ed Norton, financier George Soros, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, World Bank Presidents, heads of major corporations (such as Unilever, Nestle, Wal-Mart, Coca Cola), prominent NGO leaders, and many high-ranking U.S. government officials, from former US President Bill Clinton to President Barack Obama. ADP has become internationally recognized for facilitating partnerships between major corporations and governments to produce agricultural commodity supply chains that are deforestation-free.
When not working on climate issues, Jeff and his wife Lynn own and operate Rio Lago, a Sonoma County vineyard in the Alexander Valley that specializes in growing high-quality cabernet wine grapes.