TEDxMcGill - Alex Pritz - An Exploration of cross-cultural education December 13, 2011

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Alex is a third year McGill student studying in the School of the Environment. Involvement with the student film collective Developing Pictures drew Alex to Haiti and Kenya, where he started his career as an amateur filmmaker. Since then, he has gone on to initiate the Iwastology project through the McGill Dalai Lama Fellowship, a program connecting high school students from Montreal and the Philippines through film and online discussions about environmental issues. Alex sees film and multimedia as a powerful tool for raising awareness and creating change both in the classroom and in the field.

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