Human Nature
Directed by Adam Bolt
2019Documentary95 minUnited StatesG
The gene-editing breakthrough CRISPR could cure disease, reshape nature and let us design our own children; what will that power mean for humanity?
Synopsis
A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.
The director
Adam Bolt
Adam Bolt is an American director and editor who co-wrote and edited the Oscar-nominated The Weather Underground. Human Nature, his feature on the CRISPR gene-editing revolution, premiered at SXSW.
