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Meet Our Team
 Michael Rosenfeld,
Head of Television and Film
mrosenfeld@hhmi.org
Michael Rosenfeld is an award-winning producer, writer, and television executive with extensive leadership experience in documentary production and new media. He has produced and written films covering a broad sweep of topics, from anthropology to history to volcanology. As an executive producer and production company president, he has overseen a number of legendary franchises, including National Geographic Explorer and the National Geographic Specials. In a career spanning network broadcast, cable, and public television he has won or led teams that won hundreds of industry awards, including the Peabody and almost 40 News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
Before joining HHMI as head of television and film, Rosenfeld was associated with National Geographic for more than two decades as a supervising writer, producer, executive producer, and production company president. As president of National Geographic Television, Rosenfeld oversaw the production of more than 130 hours of television documentary programming a year for National Geographic Channel, PBS, and broadcasters worldwide. He oversaw such signature projects as The Gospel of Judas for the National Geographic Channel; National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth, which aired on PBS; Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack for NBC; and Pyramids Live, broadcast on Fox TV. He also established National Geographic's Digital Studio, which produces short-form digital content earning millions of views, and oversaw NGT's first venture into television drama.
Rosenfeld joined HHMI in July 2011 to lead its new initiative in science filmmaking. He is responsible for overall strategic development of the film production unit, its partnerships, and its productions.
 David Elisco, Director of Development
eliscod@hhmi.org
David Elisco has been writing and producing award-winning science and natural history documentaries for more than 20 years. He has worked for and with Sea Studios Foundation, National Geographic Television & Film, Discovery Channel, and PBS, among others. Elisco has produced a number of critically acclaimed and award-winning films, including National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth, which aired on PBS and was hosted by Academy-Award nominee Edward Norton; The Shape of Life, an eight-hour series for PBS; Oceans in Glass, for WNET's Nature; and The Web of Life, a two-hour, Emmy-nominated special that aired on PBS.
Most recently, Elisco produced, directed, and wrote several films for National Geographic Television and Film, including Sex, Lies & Gender, which investigates new science surrounding human sexuality; Countdown to Catastrophe, a two-hour special which examines impending disasters posed by tsunamis and earthquakes; and Virus Hunters, which probes a provocative new theory that viruses are the major driver in the creation of complex life on Earth.
Elisco's honors include Best Series at Wildscreen; Best Children's Program at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Festival; first place in The Environmental Media Awards; Best Children's Film, Japanese Wildlife Film Festival; a gold medal in The New York Film Festival; and an Emmy nomination. As director of development for HHMI's film production unit, he is responsible for the evaluation of proposals from producers around the world and the development of selected projects, from concept through production and distribution.
Photos: Rosenfeld- James Kegley, Elisco- Hadar Goren
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