Sophia Tintori | 2 min | USA | 2010

Here is a little plant that starts it’s life high up in the tree tops, where it can find more light than the dark understory of the rainforest. As it grows though, soon getting enough water becomes a limiting factor, and the plant will drop a shoot to the ground.

SCREENING SCHEDULE
Science for Nanos
2:00pm  Sunday, October 16, 2011
New York Hall of Science

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Director | Sophia Tintori
Artwork/Editing | Sophia Tintori
Music | Amil Byleckie

DIRECTOR BIO
Sophia Tintori is a lab technician in Casey Dunn’s evolutionary biology lab at Brown University, as well as an animator, website manager and editor for the Dunn lab’s CreatureCast.org. CreatureCast.org features character-driven, jargon-free stories about the natural world in the forms of video, audio, still image and written word. Her science videos for CreatureCast.org have been featured in national and international film festivals, NPR’s science Friday, the science journal Nature’s website, and have received the public praises of science journalists such as PZ Meyers and Carl Zimmer.