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XPLR Productions is a New York-based film production and webcasting company founded by producer-director Les Guthman

Les Guthman

Les Guthman is an American film director and producer, who has the distinction of both having produced three of the 20 Top Adventure DVDs of All Time, according to Men’s Journal magazine, and having won the National Academy of Science’s nationwide competition to find the best new idea in science...

in 2004. It has produced two feature-length documentaries, written, directed and edited by Mr. Guthman, Churning the Sea of Time: A Journey Up the Mekong to Angkor (2006)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772159/ and Skiing Everest (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1359029/. In July 2011, Skiing Everest was bought by ESPN

ESPN

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

for broadcast in the United States and Europe.
XPLR Productions created and operates the XPLR Channel XPLR for webcasting adventure and environmental documentaries worldwide in partnership with SnagFilms

SnagFilms

SnagFilms is a website that offers advertising-supported documentary films. Films are streamed on the website, which contains a library of around 2,000 films. Filmmakers can submit documentaries for consideration as well...

http://www.snagfilms.com/ and formerly with Joost

Joost

Joost is an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis . During 2007-8 Joost used peer-to-peer TV technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.Joost began development in 2006...

.http://www.joost.com/33l83n6/t/XPLR Five of these films are also webcasting on Hulu

Hulu

Hulu is a website and over-the-top subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC, Fox, ABC, and Obstacle on October 20th 2011 Nickelodeon and CBS and many other...

, Farther Than the Eye Can See http://www.hulu.com/watch/62683/farther-than-the-eye-can-see, Into the Tsangpo Gorge http://www.hulu.com/watch/62674/into-the-tsangpo-gorge, Messner http://www.hulu.com/watch/126230/messner, Beyond Gravity http://www.hulu.com/watch/129837/beyond-gravity and Never Ending Thermal. http://www.hulu.com/watch/129836/never-ending-thermal
Six films are streaming on Amazon Video on Demand, Churning the Sea of Time http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MXBL8K/; Messner http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001VTFTI2/, with Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer and explorer from Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol "whose astonishing feats on Everest and on peaks throughout the world have earned him the status of the greatest climber in history." He is renowned for making the first solo ascent of Mount Everest without...

the great mountain climber; The Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00321LPFS/, narrated by Edward Norton

Edward Norton

Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor...

; Corwin http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000V4FTIS/, on the life of Norman Corwin

Norman Corwin

Norman Lewis Corwin was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing...

, the celebrated writer and director during the Golden Age of Radio; The Hudson Riverkeepers http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002L17LUI/ and The Waterkeepers http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001DBAYLK/, both with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. is an American radio host, activist, and attorney specializing in environmental law. He is the third of eleven children born to Ethel Skakel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy...

XPLR Productions is the production partner of WINGS Worldquest http://www.wingsworldquest.org/, which recognizes and supports visionary women who are advancing scientific inquiry and environmental conservation.

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