Eco-Hack!

Eco-Hack!

An unconventional field biologist wages a high-tech war against ravens in the Mojave — think laser cannons, exploding tortoises, and autonomous drones — in a last-ditch effort to save the last of the desert tortoise from extinction.

"Audience Award" at Hot Docs Film Festival 2023

United States / 2021 / 16'


Director

Director

Josh Izenberg is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer, whose debut documentary, SLOMO (2013) premiered as a New York Times Op-Doc, won over a dozen awards, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. He’s since co-directed the Netflix documentary, Resurface, which was nominated for an Emmy. Other films he’s worked on have be featured by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, WIRED, National Geographic, and Scientific American. Commercial clients have included Nokia, Audi, 3DSystems, Evernote, KIPP Charter Schools, Education Elements, and agencies and production companies, including DDB, Slay, Riotmaker, and others.

 

Brett Marty – started as a commercial director and made the transition to long-form filmmaking with a handful of documentary projects and his narrative directorial debut, Youth, which has won a half dozen jury awards and played at more than 30 festivals, including Cannes. Before advertising — where he has directed over 75 pieces for over 50 companies — Brett worked as a documentary film editor. And, most recently, his short documentary projects have been featured on the front pages of The New Yorker, Vice, The Verge, and Vimeo Staff Picks. In previous lives, he studied ceramic sculpture at UC Berkeley, drove an old Buick from San Francisco to the tip of South America, and in 2008, helped Nate Silver launch FiveThirtyEight — a popular political website. Every four years, he still hits the trail as a presidential campaign photographer.