Natural History on the Big Screen: Walking With Dinosaurs

Twenty-five years ago, Walking With Dinosaurs changed the way we viewed the prehistoric world. With this exciting reimagining of one of the BBC’s best-loved shows, each episode tells the dramatic story of an individual dinosaur whose remains are currently being unearthed by the world’s leading dinosaur hunters. Thanks to cutting-edge science, experts can reveal how these prehistoric creatures lived, hunted, fought, and died more accurately than ever before.

Join the National Museum of Natural History for a screening of episode one and stay for a conversation with guests from the series’ team and NMNH. PBS’s Eons Kallie Moore moderates a discussion with NMNH research geologist and curator of Dinosauria Matthew Carrano, paleontologist and curator at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Alberta, Canada featured in episode five, Emily Bamforth, Walking With Dinosaurs executive producer Andrew Cohen, Senior Director of Multiplatform Programming and Development for PBS, Diana El-Osta, and paleontological researcher featured in episode four Mark Powers.

Doors open at 6pm so come early and meet a dinosaur! Registration is free and highly encouraged. Space is filled on a first-come first-served basis.

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American Sign Language interpretation will be available.

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Kallie Moore (moderator)

Kallie Moore manages the paleontology collection at the University of Montana and co-hosts the YouTube channel PBS Eons. Her love of paleontology started from a young age, and she even searched for tiny fossils in the gravel on her grade school's playground during recess. Kallie has consulted for Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park on renovations to the DINOSAUR ride, as well as hosted a livestream for the newly opened Deep Time Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. She is also an Executive Producer for WHY DINOSAURS.

Conversation guests:

Emily Bamforth

Emily Bamforth is a paleontologist and Curator at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, Alberta, Canada. Before becoming a curator, she completed her PhD at McGill University and worked as a vertebrate paleontologist at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. Her research interests span various area, from paleobiodiversity and paleoecology, to paleobotany and the Cretaceous mass extinction event in central Canada.

Matthew Carrano

Matthew Carrano is a research geologist, paleontologist, and Curator of Dinosauria at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. His research interests include large-scale evolutionary patterns within Dinosauria, the paleoecology of Mesozoic ecosystems, and the dinosaur fossil record. He has led multiple expeditions and contributed to exhibit curation and design teams at the Museum including the renovation of the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils- Deep Time.

Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen is head of the award-winning BBC Studios Science Unit with teams based in London and Glasgow, producing hit shows for broadcasters around the world including the BBC, PBS, Netflix, Nat Geo, Discovery, Channel 4 and Channel 5.   A BAFTA and Emmy award winning Executive Producer he is responsible for a wide range of premium documentaries, recent credits include Einstein and the Bomb, Secrets of the Neanderthals, Our Universe, The Anthrax Attacks and The Surgeon’s Cut  (Netflix),and landmark series such as Walking with Dinosaurs, Human, Solar System, Earth and 8 Days: To the Moon and Back  (BBC/PBS)  He has won numerous awards including Emmy, BAFTA, Grierson Awards, RTS, Broadcasting Press Guild,  Peabody and BANFF and is also the co-author of eight best-selling science books.

Diana El-Osta

Diana El-Osta is the Senior Director of Multiplatform Programming and Development for PBS’s General Audience Programming team. She is responsible for developing and overseeing natural history and science programming for PBS. She previously served as the Head of Development for Still Life Projects, a digital production studio, and Condition One VR, a virtual reality production and technology company. At Condition One, she developed and produced VR content including the VR doc Melting Ice which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 and This is Climate Change for Participant Media which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. She has extensive experience in both documentary film and factual television, having led the development for Al Jazeera America’s Documentary Unit and having served as Manager of Global Development and Production for National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild.

Mark Powers

Mark Powers is a PhD student at the Department of Biological Sciences in the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Powers is currently a research member within professor Philip J. Currie’s Lab. Mark’s research includes investigating the relationship between large body size and aquatic habits in snake lizards of the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene. He has been involved in numerous paleontological expeditions and was part of the team that discovered the first baby tyrannosaur fossils ever found.

Free; registration is required.

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