Variety
- 01/29/2021
Variety's Clayton Davis predicts that OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE will be a contender for a feature doc Oscar nomination.
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Press Release - 12/28/2020
Tribeca Talks At Home: OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE and AWAKENINGS
Tribeca Talks At Home, Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber Celebrate The 30th Anniversary of “AWAKENINGS” With a Double Feature Screening of “AWAKENINGS” and the New Documentary, “OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE.” Join Oscar® Winner Robert De Niro. Producer Walter Parkes, Oliver Sacks’ Editor Kate Edgar and Documentary Filmmaker Ric Burns for a Conversation About Both Films and Sacks’ Life and Work on December 28, 2020 at 1 p.m. EST.
Variety
- 12/11/2020
BBC Two and CNN Films have partnered to commission hour-long documentary special “Vaccine: The Inside Story,” to be produced and directed by award-winning British filmmaker and former virologist Catherine Gale.
Race For The Vaccine
As news of the coronavirus broke around the globe, a small group of scientists jumped into action to tackle one of the greatest medical challenges of our time: to create a vaccine against a virus no one had ever seen before, and to do so in record time, during a deadly, global pandemic.
Television Business International
- 12/10/2020
The film, which will be known as Race For The Vaccine in the US and has the working title of Vaccine: The Inside Story in the UK is being produced by Wingspan Productions and Global Health Reporting Center, in association with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Tangled Bank Studios, and set to debut in spring next year.
Realscreen
- 12/10/2020
...since establishing Tangled Bank Studios in 2012, and executive producing such acclaimed films as the Emmy winning The Serengeti Rules and Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, [Sean B. Carroll] has made a point of tackling the big subjects such as climate change, vaccines and mass extinction with an aim to inspire and educate rather than elicit fear and hopelessness.
The Hollywood Reporter
- 12/10/2020
The global race for a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus has hatched a feature documentary from CNN Films and the BBC.
Variety
- 12/10/2020
CNN Films and BBC will take viewers inside the efforts of researchers around the world trying to develop and manufacture vaccines to fight the global coronavirus pandemic, in a documentary feature slated to air on CNN and BBC Two in the spring of 2021.
Press Release - 12/10/2020
CNN Films & BBC Announce Production of Documentary Following Scientific Journey to COVID-19 Vaccines for Premiere in Spring 2021
Chevy Chase, MD (December 10, 2020)- Documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and Global Health Reporting Center, in association with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Tangled Bank Studios, tells the inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age – how a small, international group of vaccine scientists took on COVID-19.
Scientific American
- 11/8/2020
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios' Head of Studio, Sean B. Carroll addresses science denialism