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- EIN 20-1820092
- (510) 891-1337
- 2600 10th St Ste 438 Berkeley CA 94710 USA
- www.paragon-media.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Humanities
Mission: To produce documentary films, videos and moving pictures that are educational in nature and address critical social and economic issues.
Programs: Genomania is a documentary film that explores the history and science of the "century of the gene," and the new ground-breaking developments in molecular biology. At the turn of the new millennium, scientists completed the first map of the human genome. This landmark project and its follow up project, encode, generated a great deal of excitement with their surprising results. Scientists discovered a great deal of complexity that they did not anticipate, and were faced with fundamental questions about their assumptions of how biological systems operate; particularly the concept of the gene as a discreet hereditary unit. Genomania explores what the future holds for molecular biology, and the influence that the concept of the gene has had on popular culture and public policy. Using interviews with noted scientists, authors and thinkers, as well as compelling archive and graphics, the film will help the general public to understand the powerful world of biotechnology and genetics.
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