"How would you like to tell a story about people figuring out how the universe works?"
With that question, directors, writers, photographers, designers, and producers formed 137 Films in February 2004. In Summer 2007, our first two films will be finished.
The first, The Atom Smashers, studies the intersection of science, public policy, American culture, and the human drive for understanding. By following scientists with a chance to make the discovery of a lifetime at Illinois' Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), this documentary follows the biggest questions in physics through tunnels buried beneath gentle native grasses and buffalo herds.
Galileo's Grave, the short film that won IFP/Chicago's $100,000 Production Fund grant, follows two people struggling to connect. Spending their time alone listening to satellites or recording spirits in graveyards, Vic and Meg are out of practice talking to actual people. Events find them together, crouched beside a tiny speaker, listening to voices from four hundred million miles away...and beyond the grave.