On November 15, 2013, Miles Scott got to live out the dream of so many children: for one day, he became Batman.
Miles, just 5, was diagnosed with leukemia and given an opportunity to have Make a Wish help his love of good and evil and superheroes come true. The idea caught fire online, and the story of the Batkid became a viral sensation. Miles fought in a transformed version of San Francisco into Gotham City and had thousands of people moved by his pluck and his excitement at living out this fantasy.
Now Miles’s story will forever live on in Batkid Begins: A Wish Heard Round the World, a documentary made to understand how this wonderfully heartwarming story came about and why so many people were captivated by it. Directed by Dana Nachman (The Human Experiment) and written by Nachman and Kurt Nuenne (Dear Zachary), even this first trailer for Batkid...
Miles, just 5, was diagnosed with leukemia and given an opportunity to have Make a Wish help his love of good and evil and superheroes come true. The idea caught fire online, and the story of the Batkid became a viral sensation. Miles fought in a transformed version of San Francisco into Gotham City and had thousands of people moved by his pluck and his excitement at living out this fantasy.
Now Miles’s story will forever live on in Batkid Begins: A Wish Heard Round the World, a documentary made to understand how this wonderfully heartwarming story came about and why so many people were captivated by it. Directed by Dana Nachman (The Human Experiment) and written by Nachman and Kurt Nuenne (Dear Zachary), even this first trailer for Batkid...
- 5/21/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Not recommended viewing for hypochondriacs or proponents of unbiased documentaries, Dana Nachman and Don Hardy’s The Human Experiment is an alarming, sometimes alarmist examination of the chemicals that pervade our daily lives. Sean Penn, who executive-produced and also serves as narrator, informs us of the dangers in an authoritative tone. There’s asbestos and tobacco, of course, but the potentially carcinogenic flame-retardant chemicals in our couches are especially worrisome. The filmmakers make a clever argument early on, positing that nearly all activities we partake in amount to calculated risks, from drinking and smoking to simply driving a car; their righteous outrage comes from fat cats lining their pockets with the profits of untested chemicals, which takes awa...
- 4/22/2015
- Village Voice
Read More: Watch: Sean Penn Goes Full Liam Neeson in 'The Gunman' Trailer What if the greatest chemical disaster of our time didn't involve oil spills or nuclear meltdowns? Instead, imagine much lower levels of exposure, inflicted over generations and affecting every person on the planet. The result: Rising rates of everything from cancer to autism to infertility. That's the premise behind the documentary "The Human Experiment," which was executive-produced and narrated by Sean Penn. As the synopsis continues: "'The Human Experiment' lifts the veil on this shocking reality – where untested chemicals are ubiquitous in our products and the health of future generations is on the line. The film follows a band of unlikely activists who are fighting back. What will it take to stop this vast human experiment before it’s too late?" From Oscar-winner Sean Penn and Emmy-winning journalists Dana Nachman and Don Hardy,...
- 3/11/2015
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
What’s the reason humanity has become so plagued with diseases and mental disorders that historically have not existed over the course of the last fifty years or so? A new documentary from producer Sean Penn and directors Dana Nachman and Don Hardy called The Human Experiment theorizes that it’s all of the chemicals that have been introduced into our food and our environment by greedy corporations and ever expanding industry. Okay, so this documentary doesn’t so much theorize this as it fervently believes it and aggressively calls its viewer to take action against the corporations who are operating with little or no regulations and certainly without any sense of morality or restraint. This is probably the movie most concerned with chemicals since The Bourne Legacy. Take a look at the trailer, provided by THR, and decide if this is an issue you can get behind. The Human Experiment will debut to audiences at the...
- 8/30/2013
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Human Experiment is a new documentary which explores chemicals that are in everyday household products. The film, directed by Dana Nachman and Don Hardy Jr., is executive produced and narrated by Sean Penn. Penn, known for his activism on a variety of issues including rebuilding Haiti after the terrible 2010 earthquake, worked with Nachman and Hardy on their prior documentary, Witch Hunt. In all, this marks the third collaboration for Nachman, Hardy and Penn. Photos: Hollywood in Haiti Here, The Hollywood Reporter exclusively hosts a new trailer for The Human Experiment. The film, which is scheduled to screen at
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- 8/30/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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