Join Taylor and Renan as they discuss how they’ve designed lives that embody their core values, the hardships and joys of working and adventuring with your partner, and the art of great storytelling.

About Taylor

Taylor is a documentary filmmaker, Sony Alpha Artisan and photojournalist, and avid explorer of stories and landscapes, natural resource issues and above all else, the human heart.

Her focus is bringing new perspectives and deeper public understanding to the complexities of climate change, conservation, human rights, environmental justice and extractive industries.

Taylor cares about the people within these stories and their own experience of co-creating those narratives, breaking away from traditionally extractive forms of storytelling.

Taylor received a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry where she led the Yale Environmental Film Festival for two years before moving into a career as a full time director, producer, and shooter.

About Renan

Renan lives to tell stories about our connection to the natural world, often set within the most challenging environments on Earth. He’s constantly searching for projects that move him -- films that have a strong visual identity matched with some deeply compelling human element.

He began his career as an expedition climber and landscape artist, spending years living in a tent beneath the big walls of U.S. National Parks and in the snowy Himalayan mountains. All of his paintings were created on expedition, carrying large cotton canvases on his back, sometimes even using natural pigments pulled straight from the earth to capture these wildly beautiful landscapes.

Currently, Renan works as a commercial and documentary filmmaker, an expedition climber for The North Face, and a photojournalist for Sony and National Geographic