The Arts & Community Engagement initiative at UC San Diego invites you to a special documentary film screening and discussion.

The documentary film "Inventing Tomorrow" directed, written and produced by UC San Diego Oscar-nominated alumna Laura Nix '03, follows the story of passionate teenage innovators who create cutting-edge solutions to worldwide environmental threats.

SCHEDULE:

• 5:00PM: Doors Open - light refreshments provided
• 5:30PM: Introduction
• 5:40PM: Film Screening
• 7:05PM: Discussion & Audience Question & Answer Session
• 7:30PM: Event concludes

Event is FREE and open to the public. Light refreshments provided prior to screening.. PLEASE RSVP - space is limited!

ABOUT FILM:

INVENTING TOMORROW follows young scientists from Indonesia, Hawaii, India and Mexico as they tackle some of the most complex environmental issues facing humanity today – right in their own backyards. Each student is preparing original scientific research that he or she will defend at ISEF, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Framed against the backdrop of the severe environmental threats we now face, we immerse the audience in a global view of the planetary crisis, through the eyes of the generation that will be affected by it most. Considered the Olympics of high school science fairs, ISEF is the largest gathering of high school scientists in the world, attracting approximately 1,800 finalists from over 75 countries, regions and territories. All the finalists want to do a good job, but the heart of the story isn’t about whether they go home with an award. As they take water samples from contaminated lakes, dig up the dirt in public parks, board illegal pirate mining ships, and test their experiments in a lab, we see each student display a tenacious curiosity, and a determination to build a better future. Motivated by the desire to protect their homes, these young people are asking questions about the issues they observe in their communities, and proposing innovative solutions to fix them.

ABOUT FILMMAKER:

Laura has been a featured speaker at Harvard, Georgetown, NYU, Northwestern, the State Department Foreign Services Institute and American Film Showcase. She was a Chicken and Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker Award winner in 2018, and was awarded the Sundance Institute/Discovery Impact Fellowship in 2017. She previously directed THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING, (Toronto Film Festival 2014, Berlinale 2015), which was theatrically released and broadcast in the US and abroad. Her film THE LIGHT IN HER EYES (IDFA 2011) was broadcast on the PBS series POV, and toured the world as part of Sundance's Film Forward program. Other feature directing credits include her comedic melodrama THE POLITICS OF FUR, which played in over 70 festivals internationally and won multiple awards including the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. Her films have been favorably reviewed in publications such as the New York Times, Variety, Indiewire and Time Out London. Nix has broadcast her work through various outlets including New York Times Op-Docs, and on television via Al Jazeera Arabic, PBS, HBO, Arte, ZDF, VPRO, CBC, NHK, Canal+, and IFC. She is currently a film expert for the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase, as well as a member of the Academy of the Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Laura has a B.A. in History from Reed College and a M.F.A. in Visual Arts from University of California San Diego.

PARKING:

The closest visitor parking is in the Hopkins Parking Structure. *Note all visitors must purchase a temporary parking permit at the lot, as there is no free parking on campus. (Read campus parking details). Alternatively, guests are encouraged to use a ride share service like Lyft.

SPONSORS:

This event is hosted by the Arts & Community Engagement initiative under the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC San Diego.