Slater Jewell Kemker is an award-winning 28-year-old director/editor/writer/ videographer with a passion for film. Slater started filmmaking when she was 12 years old and grew up with the idea that she could change the world by making her own media.
Slater reflecting on her experiences as a filmmaker and her inspirtations.
Director Slater Jewell Kemker is a filmmaker and environmental activist whose films document the environmental youth movement. (1:47 minutes run time)
Slater has grown up with the MY HERO Project where she has been inspired to be an activist for change. (6:42 minutes run time.)
Slater Jewell-Kemker talks to dignitaries at the United Nations and receives an Earth Trustee award at the United Nations on the Spring Equinox 2007. (7:58 minutes run time)
Slater Jewell-Kemker is inspired to use media for expressing her activist voice. (4:25 minutes run time)
Films directed by Slater
Film directed by Slater when she was 20 years. The film's main goal is to give young people on the front lines of climate change a voice, but also to shift the perspective on the climate crisis from one of fear and misunderstanding to one of the heart.
This important documentary film by MY HERO alum Slater Jewell-Kemker gives a voice to young people living and working on the front lines of climate change. (11:31 minutes run time)
Two girls go to Nepal to build a shelter that will collect fresh water and solar energy in hopes of solving community problems. (2:15 minutes run time)
While filming the documentary An Inconvenient Youth, Slater and Alina discovered the devastating conditions of life on the front lines of climate change. In 2013 they went back to Nepal. (2:15 minutes run time)
While filming the documentary An Inconvenient Youth, Slater and Alina discovered the devastat conditions
Slater's first film when she was 12 years old was My Trip to Catalina Island where she had the opportunity to spend time with and interview her hero Jean-Michel Cousteau.
Slater journeys to Catalina Island to interview her Environmental Hero Jean-Michel Cousteau. (7:32 minutes run time)
Youth Unstoppable: Film by Slater Jewell Kemker
Media Arts Resources
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