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    Mitchell Farkas is an American writer, producer/director and award winning cinematographer with decades of experience working in the specialist factual and narrative documentary fields, After years at the BBC as an Asia based producer, Mitchell Farkas founded Farfilms, a bilingual, high-end documentary production company in Beijing, China, Farkas has made dozens of programs on diverse topics: The last of the Indian Tigers (TBS): Warlords of Afghanistan (BBC): Engineering Ground Zero (PBS): Korean Taekwondo (Discovery Channel): British Architects (Channel 4) China's Pandas (Discoveryl Animal Planet): Traditional Horse rearing in Turkmenistan (BBC) to name a few, He recently competed a two-year documentary project on the elusive Chinese Golden Monkey (National Geographic Wild, NHK, KBS) in cooperation with the Forestry Ministry of China and the San Diego Zoo, Born in Hong Kong, Farkas has lived and worked in Beijing more than 20 years, He speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese,