Peter Byck

Peter Byck is the director of Carbon Nation, a climate change solutions movie (that doesn’t even care if you believe in climate change).

As a public speaker, Byck has presented Carbon Nation at the House of Lords; the U.S. Embassies in London, Berlin, and Vienna; Boeing; Nike; Google; Microsoft; Shell; Walmart.com; TetraPak; SC Johnson; Stonyfield; Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room; White House CEQ; BSR; CarbonTrade-Ex; NetImpact; Social Venture Network; AREDAY; PEW-BICEP; Prince Charles’ B.E.P. program at Cambridge University; Yale; Duke; R.I.S.D.; Metcalf Institute at the University of Rhode Island; Art Center (Pasadena); Conservation International; and many other universities, companies, and secondary schools across the U.S. and the world.

Peter has over 20 years of experience as a director and editor. His first documentary, Garbage, won the South by Southwest Film Festival, screened in scores of festivals, and played at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center. In addition, he has edited documentaries for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and King Kong. Peter has edited documentaries and promotional shorts for Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, MTV, Vh1, BBC, Disney, and MGM, including The West Wing, The Matrix, Scrubs, ER, and many more.

Peter has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts. He lives with his wife and two young sons in Louisville, Ky.