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In Search Of Truth

Bright and overwhelming , the American scientist Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) changed our view of evolution: no longer was only chance to survive or randomly mutation, rather cooperation, symbiosis came into play . National Medal of Science, mother of four children, she developed a new theory to understand thoroughly evolution, but her work is still in the dark for the big audience.

  • Carme Puche
    Director
  • Carme Puche
    Writer
  • Javier Rueda
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    In Search Of Truth.
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 21 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 17, 2014
  • Production Budget:
    300 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain, United States
  • Language:
    Catalan, English, French, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    HD Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Carme Puche

Carme Puche was awarded best script in the Sitges International Film Festival for her first shortfilm 'Camille', about the French sculpture Camille Claudel. After that, she worked during three years in a feature documentary about past and present of underground jazz musicans in Barcelona, film released in the In-Edit Beefeater Internationl Film Festival. Ferrying Fee is his third shortfilm. Nowadays, she is working in several institutional video projects, as an audiovisual for the Literature Museum of Barcelona showing the essence of the classics titles of over times. Before filming, she was a journalist with two degrees: Advertising and Public Relations and Audiovisual Communication.

Fobia (2010, school shortfilm)
Camille (2011, shortfilm), Best Script - Noves visions - Sitges Interantional Film Festival, Best non English Actress in Madrid International Film Festival
Etiquetats (2012, shortfilm)
In Search of Turth (2012, short documentary)
The Jump! (2014, documentary), Official Section In-Edit Beefeater Film Festival
Ferrying Fee (2015)

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Director Statement

When the American scientist Lynn Margulis passed away, in November 2011, I was shocked in a wired way. And I said “wired” because I have never met Lynn Margulis, but of course I knew who she was. National Medal of Science, mother of four children, she developed a new theory to understand thoroughly evolution, but her work is still in the dark for the big audience.

After her death, I started to surf networks, looking for reactions. There was one in Twitter that attracted my attention. A man said: "Am I the only one who thinks that Meryl Streep will be a great Lynn Margulis?". I thought he was right and from that second until now I couldn't stop thinking about making a movie about her. So the first impulse was to record something about her, and that “something” is the short film we are going to see.

You are going to see the emotional reaction of women that work with her and were friends of Lynn Margulis. Those interviews were so close to her death that it will be impossible to repeat them. They are passionately memories and draw us a personal portrait of Lynn Margulis.

I still remember the only time I saw her. It was in Barcelona, Spain, where I live. She was offering a talk about the origin of life. The room was full of people and I think all of us felt the same: she was comforting. I guess is the feeling you have when you are close to truth, even if you know it's so impossible to achieve it.