Plant Life

Plant biologist Dr. Joanne Chory is undertaking the final mission of her lauded career: supercharging crop plants to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it deep down into Earth's soil — and slowing the pace of climate change by a third. But, Dr. Chory isn't just racing against the ticking clock of ecological collapse; she's also battling her own advancing Parkinson's disease.

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Director Biography - Brett Marty, Josh Izenberg

Josh Izenberg is a documentary filmmaker based in the California Bay Area. His film, SLOMO (2013), won over a dozen awards, including Best Short Documentary at SXSW, premiered as a New York Times Op-Doc, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. His subsequent film, the Netflix Original Resurface, won the Jury Prize at Tribeca and was nominated for an Emmy. He’s since co-directed the documentaries Game Hawker (2022) for Patagonia Films and Eco-Hack!, which won an audience award at Hot Docs and premiered with The New Yorker in 2023.

Brett Marty cut his teeth as a commercial director and transitioned to filmmaking with a handful of documentary projects and his narrative directorial debut, YOUTH, which won a handful of jury awards and played at more than 30 festivals, including Cannes. His latest docs have been commissioned or featured by Patagonia, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and National Geographic. In previous lives, he studied ceramic sculpture at UC Berkeley, drove an old Buick from San Francisco to Argentina, and helped Nate Silver launch FiveThirtyEight in 2008. His recent work includes Game Hawker (2022) for Patagonia Films, and Eco-Hack!, which won Best Short Documentary awards at Hot Docs, Palm Springs, Interfilm Berlin and premiered with The New Yorker in 2023.