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LongeCity documentary

Exploring Life Extension

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Film Mission

The LongeCity science documentary, Exploring Life Extension, aims to create a realistic impression of the modern scientific pursuit of Life Extension.

The documentary was conceived, filmed and edited by Immortality Institute founder Bruce J. Klein

Travelling more than 25,000 miles by car to 15 states, Bruce interviewed more than 80 individuals: from world renowned scientists, to key protagonists in the life extension movement to critics and lay persons

Main Questions from Bruce while filming:
• What prompted you to explore life extension?
• How long do you want to live and why?
• What is the biggest hurdle to life extension?
• What technologies are most promising for life extension and why?

The film first screened in the US at the Immortality Institute’s Nov 5, 2005 Atlanta, GA LifeExtension Conference and in Europe at the Amsterdam Science Museum NEMO during its Life Extension Night, November 2005. It is free to view and download.

Participating Interviewees included

Ames, Michael Roy - Pres. Singularity Inst. - Canada

Arrison, Sonia - Director of Technology Studies at the California-based Pacific Research Institute (PRI).

Bradbury, Robert - Founder Aeiveos Corporation

Cooper, Michael - ImmInst Lifetime Member

Corwin, Justin - ImmInst Editor

Csoka, Antonei B., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor Pittsburgh Development Center

Dale, James - ImmInst Member

de Grey, Aubrey, Ph.D. - ImmInst Honorary Member

de Magalhães, João Pedro, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School

Best, Ben - Pres. Cryonics Institute

Ettinger, Robert - Author The Prospect of Immortality and Man Into Superman

Faigenbaum, Gustavo - ImmInst Editor

Faloon, William - Vice Pres. Life Extension Foundation

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Fonseca-Klein, Susan - ImmInst Director

Glenn, Jerome Clayton American Council/United Nations University /Millennium Project

Gobel, David - CEO Methuselah Mouse Prize

Goertzel, Ben, Ph.D. - CEO of Biomind LLC

Gold, Louse Evelyn - Adaptive AI Inc.

Grigg, John - Manager of the Creekside Preserve Lodge and Advisor and Secretary for The Society for Venturism

Halperin, James - Author The First Immortal

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Hanson, Robin, Ph.D. - Assistant professor of Economics at George Mason University

Hartl, Michael D., Ph.D. - Pres. Quark Sports LLC, Visitor in Physics, California Institute of Technology

Heward, Chris, Ph.D. - Pres. Kronos Science Laboratories Inc.

Hewitt, Duane - ImmInst Editor

Hoffman, Rudi - Certified Financial Planner, Cryonics

Hughes, James J., Ph.D. - Author of Citizen Cyborg and Sec. of the World Transhumanist Association

Hurlbut, William B., M.D. - Program in Human Biology
Stanford University; President's Council on Bioethics

Jones, Tanya - COO Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Kekich, David - CEO Maximum Life Foundation

LaTorra, Michael - Director World Transhumanist Association

More, Max, Ph.D. - Chairman Extropy Institute

Passaro, Peter - Laboratory for Neuroengineering; Georgia Institute of Technology

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Perry, Michael R., Ph.D. - Patient Care Assistant, Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Peterson, Christine - Vice Pres Foresight Institute

Pizer, David - Former Alcor Vice President, current owner of the Creekside Preserve/Ventureville

Platt, Charles - Author of many popular science fiction novels, co-founder of CryoCare and former director of suspension services for Alcor Foundation

Reason - ImmInst Director; Founder Longevity Meme

Rose, Michael, Ph.D. - Professor, University of California, Irvine; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Sills, Kenneth X. - ImmInst Director

Smart, John - Founder Acceleration Watch

Smigrodzki, Rafal M., M.D.,Ph.D. - Instructor of Clinical Neurology, University of Virginia

Smithers, Lorrie Hull, Ph.D. - Cryonics Member, Alcor

Van Nedervelde, Philip - Executive Director, Foresight Institute Europe; CEO Founder E-spaces

Vita-More, Natasha - Pres Extropy Institute

Voss, Peter - Pres Adaptive AI Inc.

Vyff, Shannon - ImmInst Full Member

James Swayze - Cryonics member Cryonics Institute, volunteer administrator of Rejuvenation Engineering News at Mprize.org - ImmInst Chat

Watson, Kennita - ImmInst Full Member

Waynick, Joe - CEO Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Wicker, Randy - ImmInst Advisor

Wowk, Brian, Ph.D. - Senior Physicist, 21st Century Medicine,

Yudkowsky, Eliezer - Director Singularity Institute

Film Funding

Limited kickstart funding for equipment was provided by LongeCity and Bruce Klein donated countless hours to the project.
Independently, or on behalf of their respective organizations, seven individuals have thus far contributed $31,450 toward the film project.