Meet The Team |
Award-winning filmmaker James Donald has collaborated with John Rubin since January 2000. Starting as associate producer,
Donald is now senior producer at John Rubin Productions in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Donald recently finished producing two films— Omens of Apocalypse and Lost Mummies of New Guinea, both for the series national geographic explorer.
Lost Mummies won the Emmy for Best Cinematography in 2011. Donald was also producer and director of The New Biology, a 40-minute documentary film produced
for Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
Donald produced Climbing Redwood Giants (with John Rubin) for the series national geographic explorer. Climbing Redwood Giants
has won numerous awards and accolades, including two Emmy nominations, a CINE Golden Eagle,
the “Forest Hero” award at the 2011 International Forest Film Festival, the New York Festivals’
World Gold Medal and Finalist status at the International Wildlife Film Festival. Donald also produced American Eagle and Is That Skunk?,
his third and fourth films for the PBS series nature, and played key roles in two other PBS films—Ape Genius and
The Living Weapon, which won a Peabody Award and an Emmy, respectively.
Donald produced (with John Rubin) Raptor Force for nature, a celebration of birds of prey from an
engineering point of view. Donald also produced Animals Behaving Worse for nature.
The program, focusing on quirky but adaptive animal behaviors in a human-dominated world. Both won Cine Golden Eagles.
Donald also produced a video for the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, garnering a Silver Telly Award and a CINE Golden Eagle.
Between 1997 and 2000, Donald worked for Lone Wolf Pictures as a production manager and associate producer.