He won an Emmy in 2014 for his work on the Showtime documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, where he served as senior producer, writer, and editor. Woods Hole Film Festival’s Film Falmouth seriesĪdam Bolt edited and co-wrote the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, for which he received the Writer’s Guild Award for Best Documentary Screenplay and was nominated for an American Cinema Editors award for Best Edited Documentary in 2011. Paramount Theatre – Kamloops Film Society How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. And it isn’t digital, it’s biological.Ī breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. “Thorough, lucid, and engaging” – The Boston Globeįrom executive producer Dan Rather and director Adam Bolt, the co-writer and editor of the Oscar-winning film Inside Job, comes the story of the biggest tech revolution of the 21st Century.
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“Far and away the most intelligent, thought-provoking movie of the young year…See it and be amazed.” – East Bay Express “Human Nature” a new film on the technology, braids the tool’s promise and potential perils into a riveting double helix.” – The Washington Post
“Those who lament the state of science journalism should take note of Human Nature.” – Hollywood Reporter Together, these two competing emotions - excitement and unease - make for one pretty fascinating documentary.” – The New York Times (Critic’s Pick) “Every “Oh wow” in “Human Nature” is matched by an “Oh no” somewhere down the line. As we embark on a global conversation about our future, this film is essential viewing.” – Jennifer Doudna It gives audiences a front row seat to a technological revolution that could reshape our planet and humanity itself. Meanwhile, Mead allowed that the theatrical release of “The Most Unknown” will be “useful” for the film to be eligible for awards consideration.“Human Nature tells the story of CRISPR genome engineering with a gripping mix of science and heart. Thobey Campion, Vice’s head of publishing, added that “the media ecosystem feels like the Wild West right now, so we kind of made our own playbook… Supporting the sciences has never been more important than right now, so to really get the word out we’re deploying a fleet of content formats.” “Rather than using our social platforms and website as a promotional vehicle for the film, we went into this thinking of having this be an entire ecosystem… to talk about science in a way that helps people understand how scientists think and how they work,” said Mead, an executive producer on the film.
The math-and-science nonprofit wants the film’s message about scientific discovery and wonder to inspire young people. Part of the reason for the multiphase, wide-release push is that the film was produced with a grant from Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation. “From the beginning, we wanted this to be something a bit more modular, a story that would work in multiple formats,” said Mead, who’s an executive producer on the film. Those will include Motherboard’s site ( ) and YouTube, along with series for Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram. “Netflix was a pretty obvious partner for us, because they have big scale – we know it’s going to a global audience,” said Derek Mead, Vice Media’s executive editor, global, and former editor-in-chief of Motherboard.Īfter Netflix’s debut, Motherboard will create nine 10- to 15-minute-long standalone episodes - one for each scientist profiled in the film - in different formats native to a range of platforms.
Netflix has secured 24-month global rights to “The Most Unknown” and will make it available in 25 languages. Then in August, the film will bow on Netflix where it will have an exclusive two-week window before arriving on Motherboard’s own platforms. cities, starting May 18 at New York City’s Quad Cinema. Through a deal with documentary-film distributor Abramorama, “The Most Unknown” will be released in theaters in 20 U.S.
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