e² is an ongoing PBS series about the economies of being environmentally conscious. Shot in high definition with cinematic lenses, e² chronicles global efforts to solve pressing ecological challenges. From energy consumption to design efficiency, policy to industry, the series documents the innovators whose work is reducing humans' impact on the environment. Interviews with experts, policymakers and pioneers across a variety of disciplines offer a firsthand account of the complex environmental challenges that we face, as well as the possibility that pragmatic solutions are within reach.

KONTENTREAL
kontentreal is a multidisciplinary production company whose films and documentaries are principally concerned with contemporary environmental issues and sustainability. Karena Albers and Tad Fettig founded the company 2004 with the aim that, through film, they could awaken a sense of environmental stewardship in viewers. The company is based in New York City.

Director of Photography Rob Humphreys and Director Tad Fettig shooting at the "Big Dig House" in Boston, Massachusetts, fall 2005.

Photo by Adam Elend.

Karena Albers
Executive Producer

After 20 years of brand-building experience in traditional advertising, Karena has refocused her energies on film projects that celebrate environmental leadership and the indelibility of the human spirit. Past projects include "Roadtrip Nation," an ongoing series for PBS; "Guitar," a documentary film project; "Generation G," a short film for the 2007 Live Earth concert; and "Ecoists," a series of interstitials for the Sundance Channel. Karena created the e² series in conjunction with her business partner, Tad, and is currently developing episodes about transportation for the 2008 season.

Tad Fettig
Director and Executive Producer

Seeking relief from the confines of the advertising industry, Tad created kontentreal in 2004 with his fellow advertising expatriate, Karena, combining their commercial experience with his love for documentaries. Beginning in fall 2005, Tad spent most of the next 15 months filming the first two seasons of e². In 2006 and 2007, Tad and Karena directed "Ecoists" for the Sundance Channel. Previously, Tad produced the feature "Dopamine," which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival; directed and shot "Guitar," a documentary film; and directed and shot "Ausangate," a documentary about the Quecheun Indians in the highlands of Peru. He recently completed work as a director of photography on "Woven Songs of the Amazon" in Peru and "Food Will Not Feed my Soul"  in Liberia. He continues to pursue documentary projects across the globe.

Robert Humphreys
Director of Photography

Rob is a Zimbabweean-born cinematographer now living in Los Angeles, California. He shot both seasons of the e² series to date, beginning with its 2006 inaugural season, "Design." Rob's other recent projects include Eric Byler's "Americanese" and Rodrigo Gonzalez's "Entre Canibales." He also shot the critically-acclaimed "Charlotte Sometimes" (2002), nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. To date, the films Rob has shot have garnered over 20 awards internationally. He studied film and photography at Emerson College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. 

Elizabeth Westrate
Series Producer

Elizabeth is a New York-based documentary filmmaker who has been series producer on both seasons of e². She previously directed and produced the hour-long documentary "A Family Undertaking," which follows several families as they prepare home funerals for their loved ones. The film was broadcast to critical acclaim on the PBS series P.O.V. in 2004 and 2007. Beth also directed and produced "Passing On The Gift," a film that marked the 60th anniversary of the humanitarian organization Heifer International, and she produced numerous stories for the Sundance Channel series "Festival Dailies," among others. She is the owner of Five Spot Films, a documentary production company.

Elizabeth Levison
Senior Producer

Beth is an independent producer who has been with e² since its first season, first as director of development and, for seasons two and three, as senior producer. Previously, she was one of three producers of the HBO series "Classical Baby," which was honored with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Programming and a George Foster Peabody Award. Beth was also a primary creator and the story editor of "EGG the arts show," a national PBS series on the contemporary visual and performing arts. Beth grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Middlebury College. She and her husband live in New York and are parents to two-year-old Benjamin and baby Gabriel.

Midori Willoughby
Producer

After a bevy of careers in the past 15 years - including media buying and planning, account management, telecom consulting, Web production and a formal education in mechanical engineering - Midori met Tad for a coffee in late 2004 and encountered e² for the first time. She helped develop the series in its early stages, and recently oversaw kontentreal's participation in the American Film Institute's Digital Content Lab. The resulting collaborative project, "The Green Map for Living", is a prototype multi-platform community which incorporates content from e². After bouncing between the west and east coasts more times then she cares to recall, Midori has finally settled in San Francisco and now just "visits" the New York office.

Soo Kim
Associate Producer

Soo got her unlikely start in the film industry with an apprenticeship to an independent director in New York. Logging endless hours of footage, she fell in love with the craft of documentary filmmaking, and what started as a curiosity became her passion. Soo has since pursued her love of storytelling through all genres of television and film, freelancing for networks including HBO, Discovery, MTV and PBS/Thirteen.

Sarah Tautin
Associate Producer

Sarah Tautin has worked in a variety of media over the past ten years, including public radio, news, long-form and reality TV. Her projects have appeared on CNN, The History Channel, A&E and the Discovery Channel. In 2003 she was was honored with an Emmy nomination for her A&E piece, "The September 11th Attack on the Pentagon." Sarah holds an MSc in international politics from Edinburgh University and a BA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin.

Richard Allen
Editor

Rich's skills as an editor have been deployed in the country's largest creative markets, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. His credits encompass broadcast TV commercials, long-form programming and multimedia. In addition to his work on both seasons of e², Rich worked with kontentreal on the "Ecoists" series for The Sundance Channel; "Generation G," a short film for the 2007 Live Earth concert; and "Guitar," a documentary film. After relocating to New York in 2006, he completed an educational multi-screen installation for George Washington's Mount Vernon Museum and Garden. Through entertainment, Richard hopes to pursue subjects that cause viewers to reconsider the ways in which they live.

Michael J. LaBellarte
Editor

Michael is an award-winning editor and the founder of Outsider, Inc., a creative production and design boutique headquartered in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Previously, Michael was a co-founder of Nuworld Editorial, a Chicago-based post production company that received numerous commercial industry awards. Michael also worked as an editor for Optimus, leading the commercial industry into the electronic era.

Nelson Ryland
Editor

After studying photography at Rhode Island School of Design, Nelson was awarded a Fulbright Grant in visual anthropology. During the Fulbright, Ryland lived in Benkovski, Bulgaria and shot and edited "The Warmth of My Home." The experimental video is now housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Nelson subsequently worked on projects including "The Topdog Diaries," a PBS documentary about Suzan Lori-Parks; "None Without Sin," a WNET program about Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller; and the HBO series "Oz." He also produced and edited the 2002 documentary "Stripped," which aired on the Sundance Channel and won "Best Documentary" at the Women's International Film Festival in Sydney, Australia.

Lars Woodruffe
Editor

Lars Woodruffe is a New Zealander who has lived and worked in Singapore, London and New York City. An editor for over fifteen years - the last six as a freelancer in New York - Lars has worked on television documentaries for PBS, THC, BBC, C4 (UK) and TVNZ (New Zealand). His recent works include "Act of Honor," a one hour documentary for the History Channel, and "Is God Green?," a one hour Bill Moyers documentary for PBS. Lars holds an O-1 Visa for exceptional ability in the field of editing.