INVENTING TOMORROW

Synopsis

Meet passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats – found right in their own backyards – while navigating the doubts and insecurities that mark adolescence. Take a journey with these inspiring teens as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).

Director Biography

Laura Nix is a director, writer and producer working in non-fiction and fiction. She previously directed THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING, (Toronto Film Festival 2014, Berlinale 2015). She was recently named a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker, a prestigious award given annually to five experienced US based women filmmakers, and in 2017 she was awarded the Sundance Institute/Discovery Impact Fellowship. She is currently a film expert for the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase, and her nonfiction work has screened at hundreds of film festivals internationally, on The New York Times Op-Docs, and on television via HBO, Arte, ZDF, VPRO, CBC, NHK, Canal+, and IFC.