Meet Patrick Moreau, an Emmy-winning filmmaker

Patrick More­au is a film­mak­er, a sto­ry­teller, an inno­va­tor and an Emmy-win­ner (five times over).

He had no inter­est in film, had nev­er even picked up a cam­era, but two years into a psy­chol­o­gy degree, some­thing changed.

“While in uni­ver­si­ty, I was learn­ing about all these cool, tough issues. I was real­ly inter­est­ed in explor­ing why and how…different ways of liv­ing, how peo­ple approach the world,” Patrick said. “That led me to film­mak­ing. I fell in love with the idea of telling a sto­ry and its impact on peo­ple.”

Out of the blue, Patrick got a call from a poten­tial client. They were look­ing for some­one who could tell a sto­ry dif­fer­ent­ly, with emo­tion.

“At the time, we were shoot­ing 30 to 40 wed­dings a year. One of our wed­dings went viral,” Patrick said.

That viral video helped Patrick’s com­pa­ny, Still­mo­tion, land the gig to cre­ate “A Game of Hon­or,” a TV and web series for NFL.com. It doc­u­ment­ed the NFL sea­son through episod­ic sto­ries.

His back­ground in psy­chol­o­gy com­pli­ments his sto­ry­telling abil­i­ty pro­vid­ing a deep­er under­stand­ing of char­ac­ter and the abil­i­ty to cap­ture that under­stand­ing on film.

“A Game of Hon­or” won three Emmys includ­ing Out­stand­ing Sports Doc­u­men­tary, Out­stand­ing New Approach to Sports Pro­gram­ming and Out­stand­ing Sports Pro­mo­tion­al Announce­ment.

But that series was only the start, a jump­ing off point for Patrick and Still­mo­tion. Patrick was a fea­tured speak­er for the Social Inno­va­tion Sum­mit at the Unit­ed Nations. His team has gone on to chase cadets through the forests of Vir­ginia and explore child slav­ery through the eyes of a 9‑year-old girl sell­ing lemon­ade. His pas­sion for film­mak­ing has led him to ded­i­cate sev­en years devel­op­ing and teach­ing edu­ca­tion­al sto­ry­telling work­shops.

As he aims to make the unthink­able, approach­able, he speaks to the heart with his visu­al sto­ry­telling.

Come hear Patrick’s sto­ry on the TEDxSalem stage on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 3. Get your tick­ets here.