About

Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez are filmmakers, photographers and parents based in rural northwest Connecticut. They have directed, filmed, edited and produced award-winning documentaries together since 2010. Cows in the Field is a production house and teaching center they have founded in order to tell the stories of people whose lives are impacted by social and environmental crises around the globe — and find solutions.
 
After having children of their own, Carmen and Evan began to feel compelled to pass on the skills and perspective they developed as environmental filmmakers to a new generation of storytellers. Their mission is to help young people feel invested in their abilities to bring about genuine, lasting social and environmental change.
 
Their 2011 documentary Carbon for Water has won over twenty film festival awards and influenced policymakers across the globe with screenings at the UN General Assembly, COP17, The World Bank, The World Water Forum, The Alternative World Water Forum and the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.
 
Evan’s multimedia documentary When the Water Ends won Best Testimony Film at the 2012 World Water Forum and was also nominated for a Webby, a World Press Photo Multimedia Award and an Online Journalism Award.
 
“Film and photography are tools that I use to express the ideals that I value as a human being, and to measure the distance between those ideals and the reality of the world that we inhabit,” says Evan. “The distance is enormous, and ever-expanding: and so, this storytelling is a tireless task.”
 
“My desire as a storyteller is to express the complex human relationships formed by our experiences as we struggle to survive in this absurd world,” says Carmen. “Through the characters in my films I explore the dark habits that follow us from childhood and the passions and insecurities we adopt as adults.”
 
Born in Lima, Peru, Carmen’s nomadic life began a few months later, when her family moved to Switzerland, followed by Panama, Argentina, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, France, Belgium and the United States. She draws her sensibilities to characters from her experiences living amongst many different cultures and communities. Prior to filmmaking, she worked in journalism, marketing and as an aid worker in post-earthquake Haiti. She studied film at NYU and the School of Visual Arts and holds a B.A. in political science from The Catholic University and a certificate in international studies from Johns Hopkins University.
 
A self-taught documentarian born in New York City, Evan hitchhiked from Pennsylvania to Bolivia over the course of two years before getting his start as a photojournalist while living in La Paz. His images have been published widely, including in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, FT Weekend, The Sunday Times and Courier Japan.
 
They first met at a photo exhibit in Brooklyn, before Evan knew who Almodóvar was.

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