There is a wonderful documentary that is soon going to start playing in theaters called Seeds of Time, by Sandy Mcleod. It’s about, among other things, the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, which I wrote about in the New Yorker in 2007.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/27/sowing-for-apocalypse
Here’s the trailer for the film.
I’m actually in the movie, briefly. There is a close up shot of me taking notes on a pad of New Yorker stationary. I’m in the Vavilov Institute with Cary Fowler, who is the hero of the piece and of the movie both. The movie kind of feels like it’s a documentary of my article, in a good way. Check it out.
