- Film Mission
- Participating Interviewees
- Funding
- Forum Discussion
- Video on YouTube
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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 |  | Fonseca-Klein, Susan - ImmInst Director |
 | Glenn, Jerome ClaytonAmerican 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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.
GOLD donors — $5,000 each:
 | Brian Cartmell - CEO & President Cartmell Holdings LLC | | James Halperin - Author The First Immortal |
| David Kekich - CEO Maximum Life Foundation |  | Saul Kent - Pres. The Life Extension Foundation |
 | Martine Rothblatt - Founder Terasem Movement Foundation | | Joe Waynick - CEO & Pres. Alcor Life Extension Foundation |
Other donors:
 | $500 Thor Christensen - ImmInst Full Member |  | $500 Kevin Perrott - ImmInst Lifetime Member |
 | $300 Catarina Lamm -ImmInst Full Member |  | $150 Sasy_Kumar - ImmInst Full Member |
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