James Byrne

Directing

From 2000 to 2012, James worked at National Geographic Television, producing and writing TV programs about wildlife, conservation, science and culture. In 2009, he made Nat Geo’s first film about Gorongosa (“Africa’s Lost Eden”). In 2012, he joined the Greg C. Carr Foundation / Gorongosa Project as Media Director and leads a small in-house team that documents the ongoing story of Gorongosa’s conservation and human development work. Amongst other long-form and short-forms films, he was the Executive Producer / Producer on the 6-hour PBS / National Geographic series “Gorongosa: Rebirth of Paradise”