"Adam Leipzig" is the CEO of [http://www.entertainmentmediapartners.com Entertainment Media Partners], an American film and theatre producer, film executive and writer. As a former Disney Executive, he supervised such films as Dead poets society/Dead Poets Society (1989) and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). He went on to produce such films as Titus (movie)/Titus (1999) and The Way Back (2010). While president of National Geographic Films, he acquired the international rights to March of the penguins/March of the Penguins and created the US version.

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Going from voices of a mommy, daddy and baby penguin to a storyteller is a significant shift.

Initially, I was not convinced. I knew the film needed to be translated but I think the French version is valid and I thought there was a way to keep the voices.

If you're going to state facts in a National Geographic film, ... they had better be right.