Michael Starobin is President and Creative Director at 1AU Global Media, LLC, a multimedia production and communications consulting company. His award-winning work has played at The Smithsonian, The United Nations, congressional and other federal presentations, national television outlets, and corporate venues. Two of his films have been finalists at the Jackson Hole Science Film Festival.

In 2006, Michael led the development of technology and procedures for delivering the world’s first movie created specifically for spherical screens. The resulting film FOOTPRINTS, which he produced and directed by commission from NASA, continues to play daily in four languages on spherical screens around the world. Time Magazine named FOOTPRINTS one of the best inventions of the year. A few years later Michael and his team used these techniques to produce the principal film representing the American delegation at the international climate summit in Copenhagen.

Recently Michael produced a variety of multimedia work from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan to cover the launch of the GPM satellite. Last year he flew at low altitude more than a hundred hours on NASA’s P3 aircraft over Greenland on a mission to measure ongoing changes in polar ice, and he recently returned from a month long trip to Chile where he travelled with scientists on similar low altitude research flights over Antarctica.

Michael's background includes work as Senior Producer for Television and Electronic Media at The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In addition to working with spherical screens and conventional video, Michael and his team have produced for 3D systems, ultra-high resolution wide aspect video walls, and live events. He recently headed editorial development of NASA's Visualization Explorer, an iPad app designed to showcase science news and feature stories at NASA.

Earlier in his career he worked in the Washington news corps, overseeing daily news and video distribution for Conus Communications, a national media company. Before assuming a leadership position at Conus he started the company’s science and technology desk in Minneapolis, reporting on a wide range of subjects. Prior to Conus he worked in Public Radio as a producer.

Michael graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota with a degree in anthropology and honors work in biomedical ethics. His weekly blog on creativity appears on Mondays at 1auglobalmedia.com