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), a program of the Society for S... (Full plot summary below)
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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), a program of the Society for Science and the Public.
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| New York TimesGlenn KennyBy framing the movie as a multipronged narrative that eventually culminates in the big event of the fair itself, it risks prosaicness. But the subjects are winning and heartening, and their mission is one you just can’t take issue with. |
| NerdistScott BeggsInventing Tomorrow is a wonderfully hopeful profile of scientists who are old enough to grasp the gargantuan problems facing their global community, and young enough to still believe they can solve them. |
| In The SeatsCourtney SmallNix's film does a better job of raising the environmental stakes and overall sense of urgency. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferMildly engaging and inspirational, but it lacks emotional depth, comic relief and a cinematic style that would've made it an above average doc. The documentary SCIENCE FAIR is superior. |
| NPRAndrew LapinWatching Inventing Tomorrow, we are reminded of just how vast and layered our current environmental crisis is, and how many different ways our diligence will be needed in the years ahead. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleBy the end, as you dry your eyes, it’s their futures you want them to win — as scientists, optimists and change agents — not just a science fair prize. |
| NOW TorontoRadheyan SimonpillaiInventing Tomorrow feels more urgent and invested... |
| User ReviewRainny DInteresting and inspiring for teenagers around the world. Science is real. Science is our hope. |
| User ReviewBrendan BThis movie is a must see in the dark times we are living through. These young scientists will fill you with hope and optimism for a brighter future ahead. |
| User ReviewLuke MThis brilliant indie achieves everything you could want from an activist doc. In the face of heart-wrenching environmental challenges, this collection of diverse young student scientists from around the globe face down and outsmart local hazards that threaten the homes they love. The could not be more genuine, leveraging their deep passion and advanced scientific insights to invent programs and technologies that sweep them into the final ranks of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). We all know the stakes around climate change and global environmental devastation are at a breaking point, and the current political tide is proactively eroding and resisting the very science and strategies that could minimize the existential threats of the coming century. And in our deep concern, many of us have absorbed dozens of important but high-pressure documentaries over the past decade about global warming and social and environmental justice. Candidly, I was a bit apprehensive to see another gut punch story about our dwindling chances of sustainability on this planet, but this film is a special shining gem! Director Laura Nix intentionally takes a very different approach, following the passion and challenges of these young adults against the backdrop of a prestigious science fair, to give us a film that is smart and light and engaging and inspiring and joyful and touching and human and hopeful. Brilliant! If other green films have sucked the life out of you, you owe it to yourself to take this rejuvenating breath of hope. |
