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CARBON - AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY

By Niobe THOMPSON, Daniella ORTEGA

FILM ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL - as CONS

Environmental - Completed 2022

With Carbon in the news every day, you might think you know everything about her. But you’d be wrong. This spectacular and surprisingly unorthodox documentary reveals the story of the element that builds all life, and yet may also end it. Narrated in first person by Sarah Snook (Succession).

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Environmental, Documentary
- Countries
- AUSTRALIA, CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 86 mn
- Director(s)
- Niobe THOMPSON, Daniella ORTEGA
- Writer(s)
- Daniella ORTEGA
- Producer(s)
- Lucy MACLAREN, Niobe THOMPSON, Sonya PEMBERTON
- Synopsis
- With Carbon in the news every day, you might think you know everything about her. But you’d be wrong. This spectacular and surprisingly unorthodox documentary reveals the story of the element that builds all life, and yet may also end it.
  
  Narrated in first person by Sarah Snook (Succession), Carbon tells of her birth in the violent core of an exploding star and of her turbulent sagas through the fabric of our evolving planet. With breathless exhilaration, she reveals how she unlocked the evolution of all life forms, including us. But now, as humans liberate vast stores of buried Carbon to fuel our world, we’re discovering her dark side: she is the enabler of life, and she is also its destroyer. What happens next – reconciliation or ruin – is up to us.
  
  Carbon’s life story is stunningly animated by acclaimed artist Bruce Alcock (Global Mechanic). Accompanied by an intoxicating orchestral score, celebrated scientists including Neil deGrasse Tyson, Suzanne Simard, and Katharine Hayhoe present its complexity with breathtaking clarity and infectious wonder.
  
  Carbon’s epic tale reminds us of the profound fragility of the natural world and of our humble participation in the most extraordinary story in the universe.