Last October, I was paired with microbiologist Farah Abdul-Rahman for the most recent edition of the Imagine Science Film Festival's Symbiosis Competition. We met for the first time as the festival began, and the following week was a flurry of exchanged script ideas and bits of animated yeast from Farah's work leading up to two days of late night shoots at NYU and rapid editing. Farah and I co-wrote and co-directed, she starred and did the voiceover, and we fortunately had help from mutual friend (and also microbiologist) Ramin Rahni on all the exquisite sound design. Monocellular debuted on the closing night of the festival, and to our delight has since shown at the 57th Academia Film Olomouc in the Czech Republic and received the Science + Imagination Award from Sci-On (wherein it played in a planetarium in Reno Nevada!) This weekend, the film showed in the UK at the Bristol Science Film Festival and will be streaming as part of that event this coming Monday at 2:30. So, I finally made a trailer!
