PROJECT

The Human Game

This feature film to be released Spring 2021 explores the public and secret worlds of genetic engineering. Award-winning producer/director Cody Sheehy and CRISPR scientist Samira Kiani filmed for 18 months in United States and China documenting the biohackers and scientists involved in editing humans. Our team brought world attention to the secret work of Dr. Jiankui He, who first enhanced human babies in an attempt to make them immune to HIV. This story is at the heart of a revolution that will transform how we live and how we die.

I went to China to find out what is happening. It was like finding a needle in a stack of needles.

Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review

 
 

FILM TEAM

Cody Sheehy

Producer, Fundraising & Strategic Planner

Matt Rahr

Web Developer, Communications & Business Manager

Kim Daly

Lead UX/UI Designer & Creative Director

JD Gibbs

Head of Software Development & Business Strategist

Craig Boesewetter

Developer, Designer & Web Strategist

 

SUPPORT & IMPACT PARTNERS

Arizona State University
 
University of Arizona
 
Arizona Community Foundation
 
Hello Tomorrow
 
MIT Technology Review
 
American Association for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences
 
Leshner Leadership Institute for Public Engagement with Science
 
American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy
 
BioCurious Mexican Biosafety Association

 
 

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Insecta

A short documentary explores the beauty and wonder of entomology during a journey alongside leading insect scientists to explore the most painful stings and fascinating science of ​the unseen lives ​that surround you.
 
In a 2014 Science article, lead author Rodolfo Dirzo of Stanford, combined data from several studies and found a 45 percent decline for a wide range of studied populations in the last forty years.
 
We made this film to bring awareness to the scary reality that insects around the world are vanishing before our very eyes. Together with the University of Arizona, we are promoting science literacy and raising awareness about the importance of insects as pollinators, natural agents of pest control, disease carriers, and decomposers.

IMPACT

The decline is dramatic and depressing and it affects all kinds of insects, including butterflies, wild bees, and hoverflies.

Dr. Martin Sorg Yale Environment 360

 

FILMING HIGHLIGHTS

The Pain Scale

Ancient DNA

Beyond Human Vision

All Life is Connected

 

FILM TEAM

Cody Sheehy

Producer, Fundraising & Strategic Planner

Matt Rahr

Web Developer, Communications & Business Manager

Kim Daly

Lead UX/UI Designer & Creative Director

JD Gibbs

Head of Software Development & Business Strategist

Craig Boesewetter

Developer, Designer & Web Strategist

 

SUPPORT

AG Motion
Sci Art Center

 

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Beyond The Mirage

Full feature documentary about the future of water in the Western United States paired with an app that empowers audiences to make their own film.
 
Water shortage is gripping the West with a growing gap in our supply. So we dove into the murky waters of western water policy to examine what leaders are doing about it. We explored how other nations like China and Israel are solving water shortages with innovative solutions.
 
Key takeaway: the Western United States are bound together by water, and the states all have to work together to secure future supplies for all of them. It’s become apparent that for this region, solutions will only come if individual states give up long entrenched defensive positions and even give back some ground on long-held water rights.
 
Our solution was to educate the public so we can hold our leaders accountable and demand solutions that work for us and our communities. Goal is to make everyone a water expert through meaningful engagement of both watching this film and making a short film from segments, or clips, of the footage.

IMPACT

AWARDS

Rocky Mountain Emmy
 
$100,000 New Arizona Prize
 
Concordia Award
 
Environmental Education/Communication Award

Beyond the Mirage stands as both witness to the enormous challenges for water in the West, and testament to the resolve of those seeking a way forward.

Craig Miller, KQED

 

FILMING HIGHLIGHTS

Modern Water Management

Waste Water Reuse in Israel

Take a Deep Breath

15 Years of Drought

 

FILM TEAM

Cody Sheehy

Producer, Fundraising & Strategic Planner

Matt Rahr

Web Developer, Communications & Business Manager

Kim Daly

Lead UX/UI Designer & Creative Director

JD Gibbs

Head of Software Development & Business Strategist

Craig Boesewetter

Developer, Designer & Web Strategist

 

SUPPORT

Netafim
 
Weintraub Israel Center
 
Wholesum Harvest
 
The University of Arizona
 
Arizona Public Media

 

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Earthlight

A short documentary explores how technology turns waste into resources to sustain astronauts could be the key to sustainable food production here on Earth.
 
The human population is projected to be 9.6 billion by 2050, according to the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The demand for food will be 70 percent higher than it is now. How can Earth’s finite resources support this?
 
We made this film because we were fascinated to learn how scientists believe that technology represented by the lunar greenhouse may play a part in meeting Earth’s food demand while minimizing additional burdens on the natural environment.
 
The lunar greenhouse is a collapsible hydroponic growth chamber with automated light and nutrient cycles. This computer-controlled, autonomous system mimics what plants would expect to have on Earth. Astronauts exhale carbon dioxide, which the plants take up and transform into biomass as they grow in the lighted environment. The oxygen they produce in the process is returned to the astronauts to breathe. Water transpired by the plants is collected from the humid air, which can be used as potable water for the crew.

IMPACT

AWARDS

Regional Emmy

  
As our resources on Earth are becoming more scarce – water, nutrients, energy, and labor – agriculture is increasingly facing the exact same challenges as growing food on the moon or on Mars.

Gene Giacomelli, The University of Arizona

FILMING HIGHLIGHTS

Gene Giacomelli

Ray Wheeler

Joel Cuello

FILM TEAM

Cody Sheehy

Producer, Fundraising & Strategic Planner

Craig Boesewetter

Developer, Designer & Web Strategist

SUPPORT

The University of Arizona

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