CLAIRE SOARES- GOAN WONDER WOMAN (engineer & filmmaker)

[Eddie]

I got to hear about Claire Soares (Mechanical Engineer & filmmaker) from Marci Pereira (himself a Mechanical Engineer) who is researching on the Goan High School, Mombasa. Here’s what he discovered about her:

 

Claire is the daughter of Mrs May Soares, Marci’s English teacher, at the Mombasa Goan School in 1958.  

Claire is a filmmaker, author and engineer. Much of her work involves technology, ecology (including wild life conservation) & environment sustainability. A Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Claire is a registered Professional Engineer and has authored six books. These books are the basis for some of her film work on sustainability of global resources. Her films FINDING FOREST FOR THE TREES and FIJI FANTASY were finalists in the SCINE and Tribute to Jacques Cousteau film festivals in 2010. 

Claire wrote, produced and directed CONSEQUENCES (aka PACKMULE) a narrative short on rain forest destruction, created for the 168 Film Festival (chief judge Ralph Winter) in Los Angeles, that received the Best Screenplay award in the Gold Category. Besides her technical background, Claire holds two Masters degrees (one an MA in Film and Television, and the other an MBA in International Business). 

Claire has lived and worked on four continents. That and an upbringing in classical music and art, fostered Claire's interest in sustainability issues. She has studied ancient art forms like classical East Indian dance that promotes harmony between deities, humankind and nature. A long apprenticeship in all facets of television production led to her first ten hours of television production with a regional television station in Dallas. That preceded her four Telly awards, two of which were on classical East Indian dance (Bharata Natyam). That work, combined with her interests in other historical dance forms,  led to Dance the Gypsy.

 

Claire Soares’ Engineering Books Published (Up to April 2017)
Item	Author(s)	Title	Publisher	Year
1.0	Heinz P Bloch/ Claire Soares	Process Plant Machinery	Butterworth- Heinemann	1998
2.0	Claire Soares	Environment Technology and Economics: Sustainable Development in Industry	Butterworth- Heinemann	1999
3.0	Heinz P Bloch/ Claire Soares	Turboexpanders and Process Applications	Gulf Professional Publishing (Elsevier)	2001
4.0	Claire Soares	Handbook of Gas Turbines: Design, Applications & Operation	McGraw-Hill	2002
5.0	Claire Marguerite Soares	Process Engineering Equipment Handbook	McGraw-Hill	2002
6.0A*	Claire Soares	Gas Turbines: A Handbook of Air, Land and Sea Applications (1st Edition)	Butterworth-Heinemann	2007*
6.0B*	Claire Soares	Gas Turbines: A Handbook of Air, Land and Sea Applications (2nd Edition)	Elsevier Science/Butterworth Heinemann	2014*
7.0	Claire Soares	Microturbines: Applications for Distributed Energy Systems	Elsevier	2007
8.0	Claire Marguerite Soares	Microturbines Design and Performance Optimisation	McGraw-Hill Professional	2008

 

Summary of Claire Soares’ ‘Film/Cinema’ Biography

 

As with her Engineering accomplishments, Claire has an equally impressive history in Film production.  She features in the “Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF)” Library and is a Member of the organisation: “Alliance of Women Directors (AWD)” in the USA.  TIFF is an annual event held in California, USA, which seeks to provide a greater understanding of the world and its many cultures through the artistic medium of film, and through the top quality films from around the world.  Its motto: “Understanding the World through Films”. 

Below is the biography extracted from the Tiburon International Film Festival website on Claire Soares.
Contact Marci Pereira for more.

 

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Eddie

[mas...@udsm.ac.tz]

Eddie

Thanks for sharing ...No wonder some Goans called it Paradise much to the chagrin of a certain nameless Friend in Canada.   t Claire achievement are remarkable.

I am not surprised that Claire Soares are so remarkable ...Humans learned to walk upright in East Africa....and dispersed all over .....But more than monkeys. they used their imagination ...... throw in some religion (Yes Christianity was established in India long before it moved to Europe ... Britain included.

Who knows ...one of these days Claire Soares might participate in the Goan Film Festival....or give a talk for Engineers ....if I am in Goa ..(.as I am at the moment ..)  I will be in the audience.

Thank you again

Grandolfo

In Quepem ...originally from Dar es Salaam but with some field work in Mombasa

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