ABOUT THE PROJECT
LOGLINE
Unable to accept her daughter’s death, Lauren attempts to clone her daughter and carry her to term. Rooted in current science, CARBON explores what happens when someone who can…does.
SYNOPSIS
CARBON is dramatic feature film about human cloning from a mother’s perspective. Provocative science is not so much the focus as it is a lens through which we explore humanity, motherhood, parenting, life, loss and love.
Our story unfolds in an every day home, with an every day family, of an every day woman who just so happens to be on the frontier of human achievement. It is a film that confronts not only commonplace challenges such as motherhood, balancing career with family, and sexism in the workplace, but also reproductive issues that are deeply felt by those who experience them, but are just now beginning to make their way into societal discourse.
Visually, CARBON will be firmly rooted as a human drama in the same vein as raw, personal films like Rachel Getting Married, Still Alice, In the Bedroom, and the “ArkAngel” episode of Black Mirror. We will portray science and scientists in a realistic fashion and not spoon-feed viewers but rather present open questions that will provoke conversation and debate.
Human cloning is one of the fastest approaching frontiers of science edging ever so closely to reality. The techniques for human cloning are well established and already used for making patient-specific stem cells that could be used to treat disease. Often in movies and TV, the clone turns out to be a monster, created, of course, by a “mad scientist.” That is science fiction. In reality, human cloning will come with a host of real medical and ethical issues.
By placing CARBON in the genre of traditional drama, it will be a more accessible, visceral, and identifiable experience for audiences. The characters, their world, the situations in which they find themselves, and the choices they make will feel within arms reach. Because they are.
PROJECT TYPE Narrative Feature
DIRECTOR Priscilla Anany
PRODUCER Claire McClanahan, Marisa Vitale
WEBSITE carbonthefilm.com