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Mette Hjort is Chair Professor of Film and Media at The Education University of Hong Kong, Honorary Professor at UCL, and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. A keen supporter of values-based talent development initiatives with an emphasis on sustainability, Mette has assisted with talent development work at the alternative film school, IMAGINE, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Mette was also centrally involved in a mapping exercise for Film Lab Palestine, focusing on the provision of audio-visual training in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Mette holds an Honorary Doctorate in Transnational Cinema Studies from the University of Aalborg. She has served on the Board of the Danish Film Institute (appointed by the Danish Minister of Culture) and on Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee (appointed by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong). Mette’s contributions to the field of environmental media studies includes the article ‘What Does It Mean to be an Ecological Filmmaker? Knut Erik Jensen’s Work as Eco-Auteur,’ published in Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (2016, 10.2: 104-124, doi: 10:3167/proj.2016.100206).

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