Genesis 2.0

Wednesday, January 2 - Wednesday, January 9, 2019

In person appearances:

Friday, Jan. 4th, following the 7:25pm showtime:

Director Christian Frei will be joined by guest Ross MacPhee, Ph.D — Curator, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History; Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School

Saturday, Jan. 5th, following the 7:25pm showtime:

Director Christian Frei will be joined by guest Ellen Jorgensen, Ph.D — Molecular biologist; Biotech Without Borders President; iGEM team leader; TED speaker

On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. One day, they discover a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass.Resurrecting the woolly mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution – genetics. It may well turn our world upside down.

Winner: World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award – Sundance Film Festival; Audience Award – Moscow Int’l Film Festival; Best Feature Award – DOCUTAH; Green Film Network Award – San Francisco Green Film Festival

Country Switzerland/China/Russia/South Korea/USA
Language In English and Russian with English subtitles.
Running Time 113 minutes
Distributor KimStim
Director Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev
Editor Thomas Bachmann, Christian Frei
Cinematographer Maxim Arbugaev
Cast George Church, Woo Suk Hwang, Semyon Grigoriev

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