Pryor Cashman Serves as Counsel for Film “Racing Extinction” and Related Events, "Fiat Lux" at the Vatican and “Projecting Change: Empire State Building"
Racing Extinction was broadcast by the Discovery Channel on December 2, 2015. The film previously opened in select theaters throughout the U.S. on September 18, 2015.
Digital light images of endangered species as well as images relating to man’s relationship to the planet were projected onto St. Peter’s Basilica on December 10, 2015. A similar event was held on August 1, 2015 where images of endangered species were projected onto the Empire State Building in an event meant to draw attention to the creatures’ plight and provide footage for the documentary “Racing Extinction.”
Counsels Anne S. Atkinson, W. Wilder Knight II and F. Robert Stein, members of Pryor Cashman’s Media & Entertainment and Intellectual Property Groups, were counsel and responsible for many of the contracts behind these events. Knight is also an associate producer on the film.
For more information about the events and the film, please click here. Projecting Change was covered in the New York Times for its July 29, 2015 article, "Illuminating the Plight of Endangered Species, at the Empire State Building." Fiat Lux was also covered in the New York Times for its December 4, 2015 article, "An Environmental Message, From and on the Vatican."
