RAPID: The Himalaya Connection Video, Expanded

2015年4月25日，尼泊尔首都加德满都西北约80公里处发生7.8级破坏性地震。在这次地震发生的地点，印度板块正在与欧亚大陆汇合，推动喜马拉雅山脉的隆起。这一快速获奖将使一部关于尼泊尔、孟加拉国、印度和蒙古地球科学研究的电视纪录片(喜马拉雅连接)从半小时扩大到一小时，以纳入尼泊尔地震和使该地区更安全免受自然灾害的教训。S地震提供了一个难得的教育机会，在全球公众意识中增加关于地球过程的新科学信息的影响。利用科学家进行实地研究和相关景观、文化场景的镜头，以及过去几年在NSF资助的几个项目下拍摄的采访，制片人将在地震及其后果造成的开端的基础上，将从这次事件中吸取的教训纳入到对发挥作用的力量及其对该地区更广泛影响的更深层次理解中，以及这些知识背后的科学研究。由于喜马拉雅连接已经在后期制作中，这部电影可以相当快地修改和完成，并足够快地发行，以利用最近在全球媒体上广泛传播的关于尼泊尔的信息。纪录片《S》的主要观众是在北美收看公共广播公司的电视观众；该片还将在国际上发行。电影制作人是地球图像基金会的Doug Prose和Diane LaMacchia，他们是地球科学电视纪录片的获奖制片人。这一快速项目下的活动将包括纪录片的后期制作、母版和发行。

On April 25, 2015, a devastating M=7.8 earthquake occurred approximately 80 km to the northwest of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. At the location of this earthquake the India plate is converging with Eurasia driving the uplift of the Himalayan mountain range. This RAPID award will enable the expansion and updating of a planned television documentary (The Himalaya Connection) about earth science research in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Mongolia from a half-hour to a one-hour show, in order to incorporate the Nepal earthquake and the lessons learned for making the region safer from natural hazards.The earthquake?s occurrence provides a rare educational opportunity to increase the impact of new scientific information about earth processes while the disaster remains fresh in the global public consciousness. Using footage of scientists doing field research and related landscape, cultural scenes, and interviews filmed over the past several years under several NSF-funded projects, the producers will build on the opening created by the earthquake and its aftermath to incorporate lessons learned from this event into a deeper understanding of the forces at work and their wider impact on the region, and the scientific research behind this knowledge. Because The Himalaya Connection was already in post production, the film can be revised and completed fairly quickly and distributed soon enough to take advantage of the recent information about Nepal that has been so widespread in the global media. The documentary?s primary audience is television viewers watching PBS in North America; the film will also be distributed for international broadcast. The filmmakers are Doug Prose and Diane LaMacchia of Earth Images Foundation, award-winning producers of earth science television documentaries. Activities under this RAPID project will involve post-production, mastering, and distribution of the documentary.