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Joshua Izenberg

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Director of Town Square, SLOMO, and Resurface. Co-Director of Game Hawker, Eco-Hack!, and Plant Life.

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Super excited for Plant Life to show at the @bendfilmfestival this Friday and Saturday evenings — and alongside the *truly* beautiful @alifeilluminatedfilm by @tashavanzandt , what an honor. Come say hi!

Directed by @brettmarty & @onlyhumanfilm and shot by the super talented @photophilbriggs who will also be in the flesh. taken in Bend, Oregon by @onlyhumanfilm

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8 days ago

🐋🔬 Real-Life Triumphs of Wildlife and Science

Some of the best stories aren't written. They're discovered. Bring your significant ott(h)er and discover this captivating stories with us. 🌊

This program brings documentaries that follow real scientists, researchers, and wild creatures navigating challenges most of us never see — from the ocean depths to the forest floor. Hope, curiosity, and a little bit of wonder included. ✨

In this program:

🎞️ Fish

🎞️ Guardians Of Sea Country

🎞️ Wild Hope: Significant Otter

🎞️ Plant Life

🎞️ Rāhui, The Lagoon Shared (North America Premiere)

📍 Coliseum Theatre, 315 Lincoln St, Sitka

📅 Sunday, October 11 · 2:30 PM

🎟️ Tickets: link in bio (also available at the door, subject to availability)

Perfect for the curious minds, the science lovers, and anyone who's ever wondered what's really out there. 🔭

#AmDocsSitka #AmDocsSitka2026 #WildlifeAndScience #DocumentaryFilm #ScienceDocumentary #ShortFilms #SitkaAlaska #ColiseumTheatre #FilmFestival #AlaskaEvents #WildlifeFilm #DocumentaryShorts taken in Sitka, Alaska by @onlyhumanfilm

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15 days ago

So darn thrilled to be heading to @camdeniff and @climatefilmfestnyc this weekend with our new film Plant Life. Two incredible festivals.

And if you’re in NYC, you can also catch my co-director @onlyhumanfilm & I at the @the_explorers_club for another @climateweek screening on Tues 9/22 at 5pm + a chat afterwards with the @salkinstitute scientists behind it.

Very proud of this film, many years in the making — and so very honored to learn it was just recently nominated for a few incredible awards at @wildscreenorg @jacksonwildorg @silbersalzfestival @impactdocsawards

Huge thanks to Joanne, her, family, and the cadre of brilliant scientists at HPI — and everyone at @salkinstitute for trusting us behind the scenes.

Can’t say thank you enough to @tangledbankhhmi @catapultfilmfund @berkeleyfilmfoundation @theredfordcenter for helping us make it all happen — and especially to everyone who worked so hard on the film. @photophilbriggs @ddonaa @media_rat @steffseq @chad.cohen007 @globalmechanic @brucewgalcock amandacomposer @edwardsdan @jeremiahmoore @umami.color @armincreates @springerdocs @biolapse @speculativefilms

Though on different landscapes, in some ways very much a spiritual sequel to our last film Eco-Hack! about a zany field biologist out in the Mojave — both films about incredibly clever scientists trying to solve some of the most challenging ecological problems facing our planet, with hard science and/or quirky gadgets, big and small. You can also catch Eco-Hack!, just released by @nonfictionhotlist and @yahoo … Very excited for both to be finally getting out into the world. by @onlyhumanfilm

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⚡ Short & Crisp Award
Große Ideen können auch in kurzen Formaten stecken.

Heute stellen wir euch die Nominierten für den Short & Crisp Award vor. Der Award würdigt Kurzformate, die Wissenschaft zugänglich, spannend und teilbar machen.

Der Short & Crisp Award wird präsentiert vom Nationales Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation (NaWik) @nawik.de

Das sind die diesjährigen Nominierten:
⚡ Plant Life - USA
☀️ The Day the Sun stopped shining - Belgien
🪐 Notes from Planet Three - UK
🔬 #danistechtalk - Deutschland
✨ The Wonder Within - Belgien

Fünf Kurzformate, fünf unterschiedliche Wege, Neugier auf Wissenschaft zu wecken.

🏆 Welche Einreichung fällt euch besonders ins Auge?

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⚡ Short & Crisp Award
Big ideas can come in small formats.

Today we’re introducing the nominees for the Short & Crisp Award, celebrating short form productions that make science accessible, engaging and easy to share through social media, reaching wider audiences.

The Short & Crisp Award is presented by the Nationales Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation (NaWik)

Meet this year’s nominees:
⚡ Plant Life – United States
☀️ The Day the Sun stopped shining – Belgium
🪐 Notes from Planet Three – UK
🔬 #danistechtalk – Germany
✨ The Wonder Within – Belgium

Five short formats, five different ways to spark curiosity about science.

🏆 Which one catches your eye?

@doc_campus @silbersalzfestival @science2public @mdr_san @wissenschaftsjahr @mdmedienfoerderung @lotto.sachsen.anhalt @kunststiftung_sachsenanhalt @quebec_de @strukturwandel.sachsenanhalt @moderndenken @simonellisfilms @agkurzfilm @frederikstuut @mariastuut @associatedirectors @landaunina @brettmarty @onlyhumanfilm @speculativefilms
@tate_of_the_art @tangledbankhhmi
#siencemediaawards #nominees #sma26 by @onlyhumanfilm

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a month ago

Today, our new film Town Square (32 minutes) is finally available online as a @vimeostaffpicks

10 years ago, I heard about a memory care professional in San Diego, building a fake 1950s town so people with Alzheimer's and dementia could spend time in a world they could still remember. We proceeded to follow memory care expert Scott Tarde and his team as they built Town Square, scraping together the money, ensuring they could build the set with enough detail to feel real, opening the doors, and not knowing for sure exactly how it would be received.   It was a true experiment, a leap of faith, and to us, it really embodied an imaginative take on care. 
What we didn't expect was how much the film would really end up being about the families — Marie and Dail, Tanya and Mary, Geri and Frank, Sheri and Susie — and many others.

If you're caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's or dementia right now, you may recognize your experience in theirs. 
If you're expecting a depressing film about a difficult disease, you might be surprised. There are a lot of laughs here. It turns out that building a faux 1950s city makes for a pretty fun watch.

So we're happy to finally get to share our short documentary — Town Square — with the world. It's 32 minutes, it's played at some great festivals, and now we're releasing it online for free, with lots of gratitude to the Vimeo Staff Pick team. 
If you enjoy it, or it makes you feel something, please share it with anyone who you think would want to see it.  Full film at the link in bio. by @onlyhumanfilm

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2 months ago

We're excited to announce that our film, Plant Life, will be screening at the Camden International Film Festival in Maine, as part of the Science (Non)fiction shorts block!

Facing her own mortality, Chory embarks on one final, audacious experiment: harnessing the power of plants to capture carbon and help slow climate change.

Please join us for the screening!

📆 September 18th at 10:00 A.M.
📍Farnsworth Art Museum
🎟️Tickets: https://lnkd.in/ecGpG88 by @onlyhumanfilm

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Honored that the film Eco-Hack! that I co-directed with @onlyhumanfilm just launched as part of the inaugural @yahoo x @nonfictionhotlist's curated collection, alongside a handful of pretty darn incredible films.

https://www.yahoo.com/nonfictionhotlist/
@speculativefilms by @onlyhumanfilm

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2 months ago

Independent filmmaking is driven by vision, determination and a passion for storytelling 🎬

The Independent Award, sponsored by @woundedbuffalosound, celebrates outstanding natural history productions created outside the major broadcasters, recognising the creativity, innovation and passion that independent filmmakers bring to the industry.

Here are this year’s nominees...

🔒 Captured (@captureddoc) - A @coralandoak Studios Film in association with Indikate Productions.

🐠 Rhapsody On the Outlaw Ocean - An Outlaw Ocean Project Production. (@ian_urbina @thebenblankenship)

🌎 Movers of Life - A @bravebirdproductions Film for the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, funded by the @natgeosociety, in Association with the Human Family Unity Foundation. (@alexmirandafilms)

🌿 Plant Life - A Speculative Films and @tangledbankhhmi Production (@onlyhumanfilm @brettmarty @tate_of_the_art)

🔗 See the full list of nominees and get your tickets to the Panda Awards Ceremony via the link in our bio.

#Wildscreen #PandaAwards2026 #WSF26 #IndependentFilm #Nominees by @onlyhumanfilm

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3 months ago

GRASSROOTS: The Re:wild Your Campus Story, a new film by @palmermorse and @onlyhumanfilm and Executive Produced by @markbittman and @joeldavidmoore, follows the rise of a student-founded, women-led grassroots movement that eliminates toxic pesticides from US College Campuses. Fighting some of the world’s largest chemical companies, this team of advocates, revolutionizes land management while protecting human health.

GRASSROOTS premieres at the @maineoutdoorfilmfestival Satuday, July 26th in Portland, ME with Co-Directors of a Re:wild Your Campus Mackenzie Feldman and @sheina_crystal in person. More screenings to come! by @onlyhumanfilm

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Great news, Midwesterners. Our film, Plant Life, was selected for the 9th Annual Indy Shorts Film Festival! Saturday, July 25th, 7:30pm, Indy Arts Center. Tickets are now available to watch virtually or in theaters at www.IndyShorts.org!

#HeartlandFilm #IndyShorts @HeartlandFilm @brettmarty @tangledbankhhmi @tate_of_the_art by @onlyhumanfilm

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4 months ago

I'm thrilled to share that our film, Plant Life, makes its East Coast Premiere in Washington, DC @dcdoxfest /dox this week — screening Saturday, June 13 as part of the "Vanishing Point" shorts program. 

"Plant Life" follows plant geneticist Joanne Chory, who — facing advancing Parkinson's — races to complete her most audacious experiment yet: re-engineering crops with deeper, thicker, more suberin-rich roots that could lock away CO₂ for centuries. (If you want to know what suberin is, watch the film!) It's a scientific race against time, and a reminder that the answers to some of our biggest problems might be beneath our feet. 

Enormous thanks to co-director @brettmarty - who will be at the screening - as well as associate producer @tate_of_the_art , and our partners at @tangledbankhhmi , along with the brilliant crew and the subjects who trusted us with their story. If you're in DC, we’d love to see you there.
 
Saturday, June 13 · 5:45 PM · Regal Gallery Place.

Crew & collaborators: @photophilbriggs Aldona Watts @globalmechanic @amandajonescomposer @jeremiahmoore @biolapse @springerdocs @armincreates @umami.color @salkinstitute @jenbradwell @steffseq #dcdox #documentaryfilm #climatedocumentary #plantscience #eastcoastpremiere by @onlyhumanfilm

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4 months ago

Big news — our film "Plant Life" is headed to Telluride for @mountainfilm!

"Plant Life" tells the story of plant geneticist Joanne Chory, who, facing advancing Parkinson's, embarks on a mission to fight climate change through the power of plant science.
Huge thanks to co-director @brettmarty, associate producer @tate_of_the_art, and our partners at @tangledbankhhmi — plus our incredible film subjects and crew, and the Mountainfilm team for having us.

📆 May 22nd & 24th 🎟️ Tickets: mountainfilm.eventive.org/films/69eaa2a17744a5558bca353b

Crew & collaborators: @photophilbriggs Aldona Watts @globalmechanic @amandajonescomposer @jeremiahmoore @biolapse @springerdocs @armincreates @umami.color

#mountainfilm #documentaryfilm #climatedocumentary #plantscience by @onlyhumanfilm

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