Who We Are
OUR MISSION
Bringing innovative storytellers and the global scientific community together in a spirit of experimentation and collaboration to revolutionize science filmmaking with the wonder, awe, and diversity of discovery.
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WHAT WE DO
We partner with scientists and filmmakers to develop, produce, and share powerful stories about science.
THE GOAL
We aim to reinvent science filmmaking to capture the essence, complexity, and process of science to spark wonder among public audiences.
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WHAT WE’RE ABOUT
We collaborate with scientists at all stages of the storytelling process.
We experiment in style, structure, and content.
SARAH GOODWIN
Executive Director
Sarah Goodwin is dedicated to bringing the worlds of science and storytelling together. After getting a PhD in Cell Biology from UCSF, she joined iBiology, a science communication startup. As Director, Sarah grew iBiology into a recognized leader in science communication and education with talks from hundreds of renowned scientists. Sarah is a producer and “science guru” for the documentary Human Nature and is eager to make sure science films for the general public capture the awe and wonder of discovery.
ELLIOT KIRSCHNER
Executive Producer
Elliot Kirschner is a New York Times best-selling author and Emmy-award winning news and documentary producer with a passion for science storytelling. He is a producer and executive producer on the gene editing documentary Human Nature and was supervising producer on the science film The Most Unknown. Elliot started at CBS News, as a producer for 60 Minutes, Sunday Morning and the Evening News. His longtime collaboration with journalism icon Dan Rather has led to numerous news reports and short films about science.
IAN CHENEY
Filmmaker
Ian Cheney is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work explores the marvels, mysteries, and struggles of science. His recent critically-acclaimed film The Most Unknown was a a cross-disciplinary experiment in science storytelling. Living in coastal Maine, Ian regularly finds inspiration in the nature of his native New England. Other films include: King Corn, The Greening of Southie, The City Dark, The Search for General Tso, Bluespace, and The Smog of the Sea.
MEREDITH DESALAZAR
Producer
Meredith DeSalazar’s interest in science began with a childhood rock collection and Space Camp. It has grown into an award-winning career in news and documentary film. Recently, she was a producer on the CRISPR documentary Human Nature. And over several years producing for the weekly television newsmagazine Dan Rather Reports, Meredith reported on many science topics including the first in-depth television news investigation of emerging research on concussions in sports and the NFL’s efforts to sweep the issue under the rug.
LISA MUNOZ
Science Publicity and Outreach
Lisa Munoz has been hooked on science since she took a picture of a fly’s eye with a scanning electron microscope when she was 14. Throughout her 20-year career as a science communicator, Lisa has translated complex scientific topics into digestible stories for broad audiences. She is the publicity and outreach producer for the documentary Picture a Scientist. Lisa began her career as a radio producer, then worked as a magazine reporter and editor, served as a press officer for the World Meteorological Organization, and founded a science communications consulting firm in 2012. She has an engineering degree from Cornell University.
MÓNICA I. FELIÚ-MÓJER
Producer
Mónica is the Associate Director of Diversity and Communication Training at iBiology. She taps into her professional and cultural backgrounds to empower individuals from underrepresented communities through science communication training, storytelling, community-building and education to make science more equitable and inclusive. Mónica grew up in rural Puerto Rico, earned her B.S. in Human Biology at the University of Puerto Rico in Bayamón, and her Ph.D. in Neurobiology at Harvard University.
DEREK REICH
Cinematographer
Derek Reich is an Emmy Award winning cinematographer who has traveled to datelines around the globe to capture striking images for visual storytelling. After getting his start covering the American West for CBS News, Derek expanded into documentary filmmaking with an emphasis on cinematically arresting narratives. A lover of nature and an inveterate explorer, he will happily regale you with stories of vistas, bears and his beloved dogs.
CHRISTOPHER GEORGE
Graphic Designer
Christopher George is an award-winning graphic designer and animator with a deep interest in storytelling and communication. He received a BFA in Graphic Design from The School Of Visual Arts and went on to co-found Oddsense Studios where he currently works as Creative Director. He lives in Brooklyn and spends as much time as he can find making original content and teaching on platforms such as Skillshare and Youtube.
MAGGIE HUBBARD
Information Designer
Maggie Hubbard’s passion for information design combined with her background in fine art naturally led her to explore the intersection of art and education through animation. After receiving her BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Mississippi, she relocated to Brooklyn, NY where she currently works as a Designer at Oddsense Studios while freelancing in her spare time.
OUR COLLABORATORS
Adam Bolt, Filmmaker
Adam Bolt is an Emmy Award-winning documentarian who believes film can tell complex stories to wide audiences, particularly in science. His latest work, Human Nature, explores the discovery and ethics of CRISPR, a revolutionary gene editing technology. Adam edited and co-wrote the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job about the 2008 financial crisis and was a senior producer and editor on the climate change series Years of Living Dangerously. He lives in Brooklyn, New York where he runs The Edit Center.
Nina Griffin, Producer and Editor
With a background in art and science, Nina Griffin strives to combine both interests to make science more accessible to the public. She received a BA in Interdisciplinary Science from The New School and studied film editing at The Edit Center in NYC. Nina is currently a film editor and producer based in San Francisco and is the Supervising Producer and Editor at Science Communication Lab.
Manette Pottle, Science Publicity and Outreach
Manette Pottle is a documentary film producer with a passion for justice and transformation. Most recently, she produced the documentary Picture a Scientist, about gender bias and discrimination in the sciences, and was producer on the evangelical environmentalism documentary Behold the Earth. Prior to film production, she produced the Camden International Film Festival, a documentary film festival in Camden, Maine, and for many years operated a sustainable landscaping company and farm in Maine. She earned her B.A. in photography and critical theory at Yale University.
Dan Rather, Advisor
Over a storied journalistic career, Dan Rather has covered most of the important datelines of the last 60 years. He joined CBS News in 1962 and served many key correspondent roles before assuming the position of anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News—a post he held for 24 years. Rather continues to be an active reporter, author, interviewer, film producer, and speaker. He is particularly interested in finding engaging ways to bring important stories that matter to public awareness with a specific focus on science.
Sharon Shattuck, Filmmaker
Sharon Shattuck is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and podcast host. Her film From This Day Forward broadcast on POV (PBS) and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. She’s the co-host of the podcast ‘Conviction: American Panic’ from Gimlet/Spotify, and the co-creator of the Emmy-nominated New York Times Op-Docs paper puppet science series ‘Animated Life.’ Her work has appeared on PBS, Netflix, National Geographic Channel, The New York Times, Vox, The Atlantic, Vice, ProPublica, Spotify, and Radiolab. She has degrees in forest ecology and journalism.
Regina Sobel, Editor
Regina Sobel (editor/co-writer) received an IDA Award nomination for best editing for her work on Human Nature. She is currently the Supervising Editor of Op-Docs, the New York Times’ Oscar-nominated series of short documentaries. Her other credits include Fail State (Starz), a feature documentary about inequality in higher education; Old Dog, a verite film about sheep dog training in New Zealand; and Queen of Earth (IFC Films), a narrative feature starring Elisabeth Moss. Before working as an editor, she produced and directed motion graphics on projects including PBS’s Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream, Showtime’s “Years of Living Dangerously,” and HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
Ron Vale, Advisor
Ron Vale founded iBiology in 2006 and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Vale is a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Vale is deeply committed to science education and outreach, including founding ASAPbio, a scientist-driven initiative to promote the productive use of preprints in the life sciences, and xBio, a free online educational resource that aims to teach biology through the exciting stories of discovery.
OUR PARTNERS
