Live to Lead
Inspired by the iconic legacy of Nelson Mandela, Live to Lead highlights the fundamental values, daily disciplines and guiding principles that leaders employ to motivate others and create meaningful change. In this ambitious seven-episode tv series these extraordinary leaders reflect on their legacies and share messages of courage, compassion, humility, hope and generosity.
A Nelson Mandela Foundation project created and directed by Geoff Blackwell, and executive produced by Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Role: Director of Photography and Design
Key Contributions:
• Cinematography and Photography Art Direction
• Camera Operator/Sound Technician
• Assistant editor
• Colourist/Retoucher
• Online editor
• Post-production co-ordinator
Featured interviews include: former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; climate change activist Greta Thunberg; social justice attorney and advocate Bryan Stevenson; former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern; South Africa’s national rugby union team captain and social inequality campaigner Siya Kolisi; feminist icon and social justice activist Gloria Steinem; and anti-apartheid activist and former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Albie Sachs.
I Know This to Be True is the basis for Live to Lead. A project anchored by original interviews with extraordinary leaders and produced in book form, with royalties generated from the project going to support language translation and free access to material from the series in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Company
Blackwell & Ruth
Key Contributors
Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday, Elizabeth Blackwell, Nikki Addison, Olivia van Velthooven
Production Contributors
Department of Post, Elastic
Cinematography
Photography
Art Direction
Camera Operation
Sound Technician
Assistant editor
Colour Grading
Online editing
Post-production co-ordination
Book Design