Chris Hastings
Executive Producer & Editorial Manager
WORLD
About me
Chris Hastings is the executive producer and editorial manager for WORLD Channel, based at GBH in Boston. At GBH, Hastings has worked with the children’s television program ZOOM and the GBH Lab, an innovative incubator for up-and-coming filmmakers.
Hastings joined WORLD Channel in 2011, where he co-created the award-winning documentary series America ReFramed; Local, USA; and Doc World, and provided editorial oversight to the other original series on WORLD Channel.
Series in Hastings’ portfolio have won many honors, including a Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a News and Documentary Emmy Awardd. In 2016, Hastings became a Rockwood JustFilms Fellow and was awarded GBH’s Margaret and Hans Rey Curious George in-house producer fellowship.
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History Hits: What we called history
Thursday, October 26, 2023 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM
History Hall
Mark Willock · Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden (SWR)
Chris Hastings · WORLD
Ruth Berry · Moderator, Producer & Director
Elisabeth Hagstedt · Histoire TV
Adel Ksiksi · Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
The Great Pitch Session
Friday, October 27, 2023 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
History Hall
Cara Mertes · International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS)
Dirk van den Berg · PITCH: Silent War
Keisha Knight · International Documentary Association
Marwah Jbara Tibi · PITCH: The Collector, Zainab Productions
Jascha Hannover · PITCH: Our Sister Angela – Black Power in the GDR, Florianfilm
Whose history is it? Diversity vs. History
Saturday, October 28, 2023 12:45 PM to 2:00 PM
History Hall
Ahmed Mahfouz Nouh · Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
Louise Rosen · Moderator, PROGRESS
Chris Hastings · WORLD
Cara Mertes · International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS)
Dawn Porter · Trilogy Films