Plant Life

Joanne Chory has spent decades revealing the secret life of plants—how they grow, sense, and respond to the world. Now, facing her own mortality, she devotes her final years to one last experiment, engineering plants to heal a warming planet.

Plant Life is an intimate portrait of a scientist whose decades of discovery converge in a race against time, showing how the life of plants may hold the key to the survival of us all.

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"As our world edges closer to a crisis of sustainability. I hope it will catalyze greater awareness of the positive impact plants can have on the quality of human life. Our children and grandchildren depend on that awareness."

Dr. Joanne Chory

"This idea of basic science — science for its own sake — was one that held kind of very precious by a lot of scientists. And that's in itself worthwhile."

Elizabeth Blackburm, Nobel Laureate & Former Salk President

CREDITS

A Speculative Films and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios Production

WRITTEN, PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY

Brett Marty & Josh Izenberg

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS FOR HHMI TANGLED BANK STUDIOS

Chad Cohen, Jared Lipworth

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Phil Briggs

EDITED BY

Aldona Watts

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Tate Lancaster

PRODUCTION MANAGED BY

Fidel Anderson

SCIENCE ADVISOR

Moises Exposito-Alonso