Peter Joseph

Peter Joseph is an American musician, filmmaker, author, and social activist best known worldwide as the creator of the award-winning Zeitgeist Film Series and founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, a social sustainability advocacy group operatng worldwide. Apart from ongoing feature-film projects, Joseph launched a free, television-style web series called "Culture in Decline," which has been translated into over twenty-five languages, has received critical acclaim, and has scored millions of online views. Joseph has lectured around the world, including the UK, Canada, America, Brazil, and Israel on the subjects of cultural and social sustainability, the importance of critical thought, and the social role of the arts and scientific literacy. He was a featured speaker at the 2011 Leaders Causing Leaders Conference, and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, Huffington Post, the Marker, Free Speech TV, The Young Turks, Hollywood Today, the Examiner, and many other media outlets. He has participated in multiple TEDx events, has worked with the Global Summit, and is also a frequent social critic on the news network Russia Today.