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First Producers Workshop
April 20–21, 2002 | Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bellevue, Washington
Summary
 The Foundation For the Future held the first Producers Workshop for its television series, The Next Thousand Years, in Bellevue, WA, in April 2002. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together a small group of prominent scholars and prominent television producers for two days of meetings to discuss the content and production challenges facing the project. Workshop objectives were:
1. To introduce a group of prominent scholars and television producers to the Foundation For the Future and its purposes and goals. To introduce the group to the concepts and plans behind The Next Thousand Years television series.
2. To provide a forum for the discussion of the series content, development methodology, production challenges, budget, and schedule.
3. To identify significant problems that are likely to arise in the development and production of the series.
4. To obtain interest from scholars and producers who wish to become involved in the development and execution of the series.
A Report (3.6
MB PDF) of this workshop, including
transcripts of presentations and all dialogic sessions, available for
download.
Keynote Presentations
 “Future Evolution”
Dr. Peter Ward
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA
 “Redesigning Humans”
Dr. Gregory Stock
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA USA
Producer Participants
 David Axelrod
Producer
Green Umbrella USA
Los Angeles, CA USA
 Noel Buckner
Producer
The Documentary Guild
Allston, MA USA
 Carl Charlson
Producer
WGBH-TV
Boston, MA USA
 Mark Davis
Producer
MDTV Productions
Newburyport, MA USA
 David Dugan
Chairman
Windfall Films
London, England UK
 Gary Glassman
Producer
Providence Pictures
Providence, RI USA
 Sue Houghton
Producer
RDF Media
Sherman Oaks, CA USA
 Larry Klein
Producer
Production Group, Inc.
Washington, DC USA
 Ben Loeterman
Producer
Ben Loeterman Productions
Boston, MA USA
 Dan McCabe
Producer
Big House Productions
Arlington, MA USA
 Larkin McPhee
Producer
Minneapolis, MA USA
 Joel Olicker
Producer
Powderhouse Productions
Somerville, MA USA
 Jon Palfreman
President, Palfreman Film Group
Executive Producer, The Next Thousand Years
Lowell, MA USA
 Nancy Porter
Producer
Nancy Porter Productions
Arlington, MA USA
 Kate Raisz
Producer
Documentary Films
Watertown, MA USA
 Rob Whittlesey
Producer
The Documentary Guild
Allston, MA USA
 Kirk Wolfinger
Producer
South Portland, ME USA
Scholar Participants
 Stewart Brand
Principal
Global Business Network
Emeryville, CA USA
 William H. Calvin
Author and Neurobiologist
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA
 John Delaney
Professor, School of Oceanography
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA
 Brian Fagan
Professor
University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA USA
 Panos Ioannou
Group Leader, The Murdoch Institute, CAGT Group, The Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
 Michael Shermer
Editor-in-Chief, Skeptic Magazine
Millennium Press, Inc.
Altadena, CA USA
Gregory Stock
Director, UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society, School of Medicine,
University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA USA
 Woodruff Sullivan III
Professor, Dept. of Astronomy
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA
 Crispin Tickell
Chancellor
University of Kent at Canterbury
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, UK
Peter D. Ward
Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA
 Spencer Wells
Research Fellow
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Essex, UK
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