Jinty MacTavish - Director - Country of Origin: New Zealand

Jinty MacTavish is a young South Island documentary maker - Lessons From a Melting Icecap is just her second film, and was produced in part requirements for a Masters in Science Communication from the University of Otago. Jinty hopes to pursue a career communicating climate change in a way that empowers people to both individual and collective action. Over the next few months she will be developing a resource kit around Lessons for a Melting Icecap so that it can be used as a teaching resource in New Zealand's secondary schools.

Jinty's first film Geckos Rock was produced for the University of Otago’s Post-graduate Diploma in Natural History Filmmaking and Communication. It has screened in various film festivals both within New Zealand and internationally, and is being used to promote the concept of a mainland sanctuary for alpine geckos in Fiordland's Sinbad Valley.

In between films, Jinty worked on a Discovery Asia show at Dunedin-based production house NHNZ Ltd. and travelled to Indonesia at the request of the British High Commission to document the Asia Young Leaders’ Climate Forum. She is part of the recently launched production collaborative Splashroom Media (www.splashroom.co.nz), and writes on a freelance basis, including for New Zealand’s new sustainable living magazine Good.