PROTAGONISTS

“There is only one basic genetic code for all life on earth.”

Ann Clarke

University of Nottingham (GBR)

Zoologist · Co-Founder of The Frozen Ark

“We are coming into a golden age of population health.”

Rory Collins

UK Biobank (GBR)

Epidemiologist · Principal Investigator & CEO

“We absolutely have to preserve old plant varieties.”

Nikolai Dzyubenko

N.I. Vavilov Research Institute (RUS)

Botanist · Director General

“It is the most biodiversity of agriculture in the entire world – in one room.”

Cary Fowler

Global Crop Diversity Trust

Agriculturalist · Former Executive Director

“If we imagine a collection of all mammals, it would fit into four to six cryotanks.”

Günter R. Fuhr

Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (GER)

Biophysicist · Head of Institute

“Molecular biology brought with it a completely new view of the human being.”

Herbert Gottweis

University of Vienna (AUT)

Political Scientist · Professor

“We must ask what happens if we start genetically enhancing human beings.”

Pierre-Henri Gouyon

National Museum of Natural History, Paris (FRA)

Botanist & Geneticist · Professor

“If you look at a field of corn or rice, everything looks the same — but the closer you look, the more you see differences.”

Ruaraidh S. Hamilton

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources

Evolutionary Biologist · Expert

“I think genetics alone will not suffice to comprehend the soul.”

Berthold Huppertz

Biobank Graz (AUT)

Cell Biologist · Director

“Microbiology has opened up whole new worlds — and we only know perhaps one percent of it.”

Hans-Peter Klenk

Newcastle University (GBR)

Microbiologist · Head of School of Biology

“Anything alive has a script, and it is written down in every single individual.”

Stephen J. O’Brien

Dobzhansky Centre, St. Petersburg State University (RUS)

Geneticist · Chief Scientific Officer

“We might ask ourselves, what actually is a human being?”

Christa Schleper

University of Vienna (AUT)

Microbiologist · Head of Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics

“With crops we single out the good genes. With humans we target the bad ones.”

Jian Wang

BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute), Shenzhen (CHN)

Geneticist · President

“Imagine a future where not only genome centers generate data — but all of us, using our phones.”

Kurt Zatloukal

BBMRI.at, Graz (AUT)

Pathologist · Director

“Our main task needs to be the creation of secure storage for biodiversity in its entirety.”

Xin Zhou

China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen (CHN)

Evolutionary Biologist · Director

Team

A Film by
Ursula Hansbauer
Wolfgang Konrad
Clemens Stachel

Camera
Leena Koppe

Music
Barbara Konrad and Klaus Lang

Voice
Anne Kozeluh (English version)
Eva Löbau (German version)

Sound Mixing & Sound Design
Christoph Amann

Colour Grading
Andreas Daxer

Research Assistance
Julia Wieger
Barbara Zorman

Technical Support
Lukas Boeck

Titles
Philipp Haupt

Proofreading & Translation
Kevin Dooley

Interpreters
Galina Karalyun
Ling Ling Xu

Dramaturgical Advisors
Christa Auderlitzky
Hannes Böck
Julia Pontiller

Script Consulting
Ursula Wolschlager
Robert Buschschwenter (witcraft)
Sandra Bohle

Spitsbergen Guide
Stefano Poli / Poli Arctici

A Deep-Felt Thank You

To the following individuals and institutions for their invaluable contributions and support:

Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Spitsbergen, Norway

Cary Fowler
Roland von Bothmer
Ola Westengen
Simon Jeppson
Brian Lainoff

N. I. Vavilov Research Institute
St. Petersburg, Russia

Nikolai Dzyubenko
Boris Makarov
Olga Kovaleva
Elena Potokina
Tamara Smekalova
Sergey Alexanian († 2014)

The Frozen Ark
University of Nottingham, UK

Ann Clarke
Jude Smith

Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering
Sulzbach, Germany

Günter R. Fuhr
Dominik Lermen
Annette Maurer
Frank Obergrießer

University of Vienna
Austria

Herbert Gottweis († 2014)
Christa Schleper
Silvia Bulgheresi

BGI
Shenzhen, China

Jian Wang
Aizhu Wang
Bicheng Yang
Min Tang
Qian Jin

UK Biobank
Manchester, UK

Rory Collins
Tim Peakman
Steven Jones
Andrew Trehearne

Natural History Museum
Vienna, Austria

Anita Gamauf
Christian Köberl
Hans-Martin Berg
Nora Wurzinger

and

Arche Noah, Schiltern, Austria — Beate Koller, Bernd Kajtna University of Vienna — Gerd Müller, Ulrich Technau Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK — James Beattie, Robyn Cowan, Félix Forest Millennium Seed Bank, UK — Paul Smith, Wolfgang Stuppy Natural History Museum, London — Alfried Vogler, Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin — Frieder Mayer, Hannelore Landsberg BioBank AS, Hamar, Norway — Sigbjørn Gregusson NordGen, Ås, Norway — Juha Kantanen, Benedicte Lund

SCREENINGS

A selection of festivals and venues where Golden Genes has been screened.

Biodiversity BioEconomy Development Office (BEDO) Conference
Bangkok, Thailand

September 2018

Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Conference
Vienna, Austria

May 2018

BOKU-KINO — University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Vienna, Austria

April 2018

Goethe Institute Science Film Festival
Philippines

November 2017

World of Knowledge International Science Film Festival
St Petersburg, Russia

Oct 2017

Pariscience International Science Film Festival
Paris, France

5 Oct 2017, 8 pm

24th European Film Festival Palic
Serbia

16 June 2017, 6 pm

57th Krakow Film Festival
Poland

28 May – 4 June 2017

Obscura Kino
Ulm, Germany

4 May 2017

Kommunales Kino
Pforzheim, Germany

3 May 2017

AFO – Academia Film Olomouc
Czech Republic

25 – 30 April 2017

SciScreen – Synthetic Biology in Cambridge
United Kingdom

26 April 2017

Deka(r)te Filmclub
Wiener Neustadt, Austria

4 April 2017, 7:30 pm

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
Innsbruck, Austria

28 March 2017

OekofilmTour 2017 — Hochschule für Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Eberswalde, Germany

19 January 2017

Cine Club — Austrian Cultural Forum
London, United Kingdom

17 January 2017

Volkstheater
Klagenfurt, Austria

13 December 2016

33. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und VideoFest
Germany

16 November 2016

KIZ RoyalKino
Graz, Austria

4 November 2016

Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival
Malaysia

14 – 16 October 2016

Top Kino
Vienna, Austria

7 – 30 October 2016

Austrian Premiere at Filmcasino
Vienna, Austria

6 October 2016

Wildlife Vaasa International Nature Film Festival
Finland

28 September – 2 October 2016

China International Conference of Science and Education Producers
Shenzhen, China

25 – 28 September 2016

Matsalu Nature Film Festival (MAFF)
Estonia

21 – 25 September 2016

Portobello Film Festival
United Kingdom

1 – 18 September 2016

Natur Vision Filmfestival
Ludwigsburg, Germany

21 – 24 July 2016

Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival
Hong Kong

April 2016

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CONTACT

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Press Contact

Clemens Stachel

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Producer