Unseen Enemy: The risks of a global pandemic and how to prevent it

9 January 2018

Unseen Enemy: The risks of a global pandemic and how to prevent it

Janet Tobias is a multiple award-winning director/producer with 20 years experience working in television for all three American networks. The feature length documentary Unseen Enemy (2017) and the animated documentary Memory Games (2017) are her latest films.

GLOBAL REPORTING CENTRE LECTURE

Speaker: Janet Tobias, Award-Winning Director, Producer, and Writer

Janet Tobias is a multiple award-winning director/producer with 20 years experience working in television for all three American networks (CBS, NBC and ABC), PBS, Discovery, and MSNBC. In 2001, she co-founded Sierra/Tango Productions, which has produced over 20 films on subjects ranging from 13-year-old girls to US veterans returning from war.

Tobias produced and directed an award winning four-hour joint Frontline/Nightline project on the juvenile justice system in California, and executive produced the Emmy award-winning PBS Life 360 (2001). In 2013, she was nominated for a writer’s guild for her docudrama No Place On Earth (2012). The feature length documentary Unseen Enemy (2017) and the animated documentary Memory Games (2017) are her latest films.

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