{"id":14296,"date":"2022-02-21T17:41:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T15:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=14296"},"modified":"2022-02-21T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T15:41:39","slug":"celebrated-national-geographic-explorer-tara-roberts-for-newf-fellows-summit-21-25-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/02\/21\/celebrated-national-geographic-explorer-tara-roberts-for-newf-fellows-summit-21-25-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrated National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts For NEWF Fellows&#8217; Summit 21-25 Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celebrated American National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts, will be in Durban this week (22 February) to present a keynote address at the inaugural Nature, Environment &amp; Wildlife Filmmaking (NEWF) Fellows\u2019 Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tara-Roberts-Headshot.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tara-Roberts-Headshot.jpg?resize=350%2C255&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tara-Roberts-Headshot.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tara-Roberts-Headshot.jpg?resize=300%2C219&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Tara Roberts<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the invitation of NEWF directors Noel Kok and Pragna Parsotam-Kok, Tara Roberts will deliver her address to 80 young filmmakers, scientists and storytellers from 15 African countries who have participated in NEWF\u2019s numerous labs or training workshops over the years. She will be referencing her ground-breaking National Geographic podcast series\u00a0<em>Into the Depths,\u00a0<\/em>of her personal journey following Black scuba divers from the organisation\u00a0<em>Diving with a Purpose<\/em>, searching for slave shipwrecks around the world (of which there are reputed to be more than 1000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featuring on the cover of the March 2022 edition of the prestigious National Geographic magazine, Roberts reveals the insights of her journey explaining that \u201cit is time for their (slave ancestors) stories to rise from the depths, to be told in their fullness, in their wonder\u2014and with love, with honor, with respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also features in the National Geographic Documentary Special, <em>Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and a short documentary <em>Diving with Purpose<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CLOTILDA: LAST AMERICAN SLAVE SHIP | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3V7doDPhqlo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the 5 years of its existence, NEWF has grown into much more than its annual congress that connects filmmakers, storytellers, scientists, conservationists, and media distributors working in conservation through film. It has also played a major role in supporting emerging filmmakers by connecting them to funders as well as providing labs and capacity development, and this cohort is now known as NEWF \u201cFellows\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the two-year absence of an in-person NEWF Congress, we thought we should focus on consolidating the skills and networking of the cohort of NEWF Fellows,\u201d explains Noel Kok. \u201cOur overall vision for this sector of the film industry is to tell the \u201cStories of Africa\u201d that celebrate and advocate for the protection of her natural (and cultural) history that is told by a connected network of visual storytellers organically led by indigenous African voices. And there is no better way to do this, than by supporting the emergence of these stories through young filmmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is a true honour to have Tara here to give an address about her journey, as a journalist and storyteller, we hope she will shine a light for this cohort as a trailblazer, and role-model, motivating them to tell our African stories,\u201d enthuses Pragna Parsotam-Kok. \u201cHer story is so inspirational as she seeks out to uncover the lost history of Africans under the ocean.\u201dTo listen to the <em>Into the Depths <\/em>podcasts :\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/on.natgeo.com\/3h6PV24\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/on.natgeo.com\/3h6PV24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated American National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts, will be in Durban this week (22 February) to present a keynote address at the inaugural Nature, Environment &amp; Wildlife Filmmaking (NEWF) Fellows\u2019 Summit. At the invitation of NEWF directors Noel Kok and Pragna Parsotam-Kok, Tara Roberts will deliver her address to 80 young filmmakers, scientists and storytellers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/02\/21\/celebrated-national-geographic-explorer-tara-roberts-for-newf-fellows-summit-21-25-feb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrated National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts For NEWF Fellows&#8217; Summit 21-25 Feb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-14296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-national-geographic","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}