Carol Amore, 2003 Women of Discovery Film & Exploration Award

"The soul never thinks without a picture." — Carol Amore

Executive Producer, photographer, cinematographer, author, leadership consultant

Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Education: BS and Sub-doctoral, Clinical/Organizational Psychology

Achievements

Discoveries: Creating a film on the intimate lives of a wild Bengal tigress and her two cubs

Expeditions: Arctic Circle, African Plains, the Indian Jungle

Biography

Carol Amore is an awardwinning wildlife photographer, high definition(HD) digital videographer and executive producer whose sense of adventure leads her into remote parts of the world. As a teenager, she identified with the words of Henry David Thoreau: "The dream that I see makes me what I am." Today, as a true entrepreneur, Carol makes dreams come true and feels adventure teaches you to live life to its fullest. Her company, Wildlife Worlds: Adventures in Nature Productions, is dedicated to creating compelling wildlife stories from America's wilderness, the Arctic circle, the African Plains and the Indian jungle. In Montana's Glacier National Park, she tracked wild grizzlies and at the North Pole, traveled by tundra buggy in 30 degrees below freezing temperatures to film polar bears.  In East Africa, Carol followed the wildebeest-zebra migration across Kenya and Tanzania. 

Carol's HD film/DVD, Tigers - Tracking a Legend, about a young tigress and her two five-month old cubs won the Wings WorldQuest 2003 Special Award for Groundbreaking Film and Exploration, the prestigious cinematography and young people's 2002 award at the International Wildlife Film Festival and the Cine Golden Eagle 2002 award for film excellence. Sony Wonder Technology's HDW Theater in NYC premiered and showcased this tiger film in 2002, and exhibited Carol's tiger photography. Tiger Mountain, Wildlife Conservation Society's (Bronx Zoo) dynamic interactive Siberian tiger experience, uses Amore's rare HD footage to cultivate awareness of endangered tigers. Her HD television broadcasting and digital cinema productions include:Siberian Tiger Babies - Up Close and Personal, Tiger Legends - Myth and Mystery and Extraordinary Explorers-Leaders. 20 Ways to Track a Tiger won the 2004 prestigious Lucie International Photographer of the year Nature Book Award and the 2004 Independent Publisher's Best Animal Book award. A member of the world-renowned Explorers Club, Carol believes the soul never thinks without a picture and that the filmmaker will help preserve wildlife through finding those great images that enrich the lives of others.

Fun Facts

Favorite Item to have in the field: Field-High Definition film camera, full range of fast action photo lenses, and 10-foot elephant tripod

Heroes: Sylvia Earle, intrepid explorer and oceanographer