John D. Liu

Quick Facts

Full Name	John D. Liu
Occupation	Film-Maker
Date Of Birth	Jan 2, 1953(1953-01-02)
Age	71
Birthplace	Nashville
Country	United States
Birth City	Tennessee
Horoscope	Capricorn

John D. Liu Biography

John D. Liu is one of the most popular and richest Film-Maker who was born on January 2, 1953 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. John Dennis Liu (born 1953 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an Chinese American film- maker and ecologist. He also works as an expert researcher at several universities. In the month of January, 2015 John was appointed a as a Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also an Ecosystem Representative of the Commonland Foundation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2017, John Liu founded Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a global initiative that aims to repair ecologically damaged ecosystems on a huge scale.

Hope in the midst of a changing Climate premiered in Copenhagen at COP15 and broadcast on BBC World. Since its debut, Hope has been translated into French, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian and Spanish. The film was chosen to celebrate this year’s United Nations International Year of Forests in 2011. This was by far the highest watched footage on the WaterChannel over the course of 12 months between 2010 and 2011.

Hope won the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Green Screen [3] in Vancouver, Canada, 2011. It was accepted by the International Festival of Environmental Film and Video was able to accept the film as part of its highly competitive festival in June of 2010. Hope was accepted into United States: Best in Category: Ecosystem in the highly acclaimed International Wildlife Film Festival in Montana. In addition to receiving the prize for the most eco- friendly movie, Hope also received six merit award from IWWF (Presenter and Storytelling Scientific Content, Conservation Initiative, Conservation Message and Human-Environment) during the 33rd annual festival in May 2010 located in Missoula, Montana;

John D. Liu Net Worth

John D. Liu is one of the richest Film-Maker from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John D. Liu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Liu was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States as the child of an Chinese father and an American mother. Liu spent the majority of his life at Bloomington, Indiana. Liu studied journalism. In 1979, he travelled for his first trip to China after being forced by his dad to visit his grandmother prior to her death. In China Liu was instrumental in the establishment of China’s CBS News bureau in Beijing in 1981, a period when tensions between United States and China were diminishing. Liu was employed by CBS for over 10 years as a cameraman, director and cameraman. Liu says that after the fall of the Soviet Union he grew tired of journalism and decided to create films. He began with European media, such as RAI, SRG SSR, ZDF For RAI, ZDF, BBC World and National Geographic Channel he produced documentary films about nature. In 1995, he documented his first documentary, the Loess Plateau in China, that was converted from an barren, erosion-prone ground into an oasis by the Chinese government. At this moment, Liu saw humankind’s potential for helping to restore ecosystems instead of destruction.

Liu left journalism in 1997 and was director for the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP). Through the EEMP Liu makes use of television to inform people on sustainable development, ecology as well as public health issues in China as well as other nations. Liu stresses that the detrimental effects of humans on the earth is not solely due to greenhouse gases, but much more influenced by the degrading of organic matter, biomass and biodiversity. Liu says that the decrease in these aspects has resulted in rising temperatures and the loss of arable soils, ultimately final result leading to desertification. Liu thinks there is a solution to these issues in the way that people consider money, since consumers value products and services that come from ecosystems more than those ecosystems. The episode Regreening the desert/ Green gold from the series Tegenlicht was broadcast by Dutch television station VPRO and produced by Liu. The show follows Liu travelling around the world to destinations such as Jordan, China and Ethiopia and demonstrates the potential of the re-greening of desert areas. In the 65th Prix Italia, in September 2013, the show won the Special Prize Expo 2015. From 2009 onwards, Liu has been working alongside Willem Ferwerda, former director of the Dutch office of IUCN as executive fellow in ecosystems and business in the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and founder of the Commonland Foundation an organization that manages large-scale landscape restoration projects using the business model that is based on the four results from the landscape restoration framework that was developed by Ferwerda. John Liu founded Ecosystem Restoration Camps in the year 2017, an international movement that seeks to repair damaged ecosystems on a huge extent.

Liu was named Rothamstead International Fellow for the Communication of Science at Rothamsted Research, an agricultural research institution. He also was an associate professor at the George Mason University as a part of the Center for Climate and Society, and a senior research fellow at the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In January 2015 John was named Visiting Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland foundation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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John Ranked on the list of most popular Film-Maker. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John D. Liu celebrates birthday on January 2 of every year.