Festival Year: 2023, 2020

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Sean Carroll

Roles: Moderator

As Head of Studio, Sean B. Carroll directs HHMI Tangled Bank Studios’ mission, strategy, and editorial focus, and oversees both the documentary and dramatic film slates. An internationally recognized scientist and award-winning author, Carroll has served as executive producer on a wide variety of feature documentaries including the Emmy-winning The Farthest and The Serengeti Rules, which was based on Carroll’s book, and the Oscar-nominated All That Breathes, which also won both the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury and Cannes L’Oeil d’Or Documentary Prizes. Carroll is a pioneer in the field of evolutionary developmental biology or “evo-devo,” the study of the genes that control animal body patterns and play major roles in the evolution of animal diversity. In recognition of his scientific contributions, Carroll has received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences and been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the AmericanPhilosophical Society and been named a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Carroll is also Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland.

 

2023 Program(s):

Wild Hope and the Power of Positive Stories

 

Festival Year: 2023, 2020

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