Chip Duncan is a filmmaker, author, photographer and President of The Duncan Group, Inc., a documentary production company formed in 1984.
Duncan and his team recently completed the three-part public television series The Reagan Presidency (broadcast internationally in 2013). Interviews include Condoleezza Rice, Douglas Brinkley, Oscar Arias, Sandra Day O’ Connor, Walter Mondale, George Shultz, Paul Volcker, Henry Cisneros, Robert Reich, Reza Aslan, Richard Reeves, Trita Parsi and Andrew Young... among others.
The classroom component of Duncan's climate change series The Life & Death of Glaciers was released to schools across North America in September, 2011 by Discovery Education. The feature documentary is currently in production with an estimated airdate of late 2014.
Other notable productions include the 2009 PBS Special Landslide: The Presidency of Herbert Hoover and the 2-part public television documentary A History of Prayer In America. The PBS Special In a Just World – Contraception, Abortion & World Religion aired nationwide in 2003. The national release of Cost of Freedom – Security, Civil Liberty & the USA Patriot Act premiered that same year. The Magic Never Ends – The Life & Work of C.S. Lewis aired nationwide on public television during 2002. Duncan’ s production of the 13-part Discovery Networks series Mystic Lands was broadcast in more than 140 countries around the world during 1996.
During May, 2012 Duncan documented health care conditions in the Irrawaddy Delta region of Burma for Relief International. Later in 2012, Duncan documented several carbon-reducing development programs for Relief International in Ghana. During two trips to Afghanistan since the U.S. led invasion, Duncan has documented various parts of Afghanistan including the Bamyan and Panjshir provinces. During 2005, he drove more than 1800 kilometers of the Afghan countryside documenting the efforts of Save The Children. Duncan documented relief efforts in Darfur, Sudan during 2008 and he was part of the first response to the Haitian earthquake during 2010.
Duncan's photographic images appear in the book Enough To Go Around – Searching for Hope in Afghanistan, Pakistan & Darfur (Select Books, NYC, 2009). A photographic exhibition of Duncan's images from Afghanistan premiered during August, 2011 at the World Peace Festival in Berlin, Germany. A second photographic exhibition featuring images from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Darfur, Sudan premiered during September at the O Street Museum in Washington D.C.
Duncan has filmed in more than forty countries. His documentary television specials and series have won more than 125 national and international awards. Broadcast networks include PBS, HBO, Discovery, TLC, Showtime, Lifetime and Sundance Channel... among others.
Sá ndor Kö les is a Hungarian-born sociologist and Senior Advisor to the Budapest based International Center for Democratic Transition (ICDT) and the Prague based Institute for Stability and Development (ISD). From 2006 until 2011 Mr. Kö les had been the Senior Vice-President for Programs and Development with the ICDT. Founded in 2005, ICDT's main goal is to pool Hungarian and Central European knowledge and experiences on transition and help countries across the world navigate their own transitions to democracy. Under his leadership the ICDT has developed and implemented numerous projects in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, South Caucasus, the Middle East and the Caribbeans on security, regional cooperation, community and civil society development.
Previously, Mr. Kö les had been working with the Carpathian Foundation, first as Country Director for Hungary and, since 1997, as the Executive Director of the Foundation that promotes cross-border and interethnic cooperation in the bordering areas of Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine. Prior to joining the Carpathian Foundation Mr. Kö les has worked with the Hungarian Institute for Culture, first as researcher and, later a
