Pat Thompson worked as line producer for two recent episodes of the adventure reality show, The Amazing Race, which were broadcast on the CBS network in March. One featured a recreation of a World War I battle near Verdun and the other focused on the Champagne region. The Amazing Race just won its 8th Emmy Award in a row for best program in its category. More than 100 local staff worked on the French production, including several AUP alumni.

Pat Thompson has been teaching fiction and non-fiction video production courses at AUP since 1997.

Thompson was Senior Producer for NBC News from 1975-1990 and European Producer for ABC News from 1990-1995. In addition, she has worked on a variety of production projects for Nickelodeon, Columbia Tristar, ESPN, NBC Sports, New Wave Cinema, NBC Dateline, RAI 3 Italia, PBS, Channel 4 UK and others. Thompson has won international recognition for her work, including two Emmy awards and a Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival.

Thompson currently runs her own audiovisual company in Paris, producing award-winning short films and documentaries and providing production support for US networks and programs shooting in France.

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