The Artificial Leaf (2012)

An Award-Winning Short Film

3:40, 16x9, Color

Dan Nocera has a simple equation to save the planet:

sun + water = energy for the world.

Taking his cues from nature, what the father of photochemistry Giacomo Ciamician called “the guarded secret of plants”, Nocera has invented an artificial leaf with a self-healing catalyst that can power the earth inexpensively by using sunlight to split water and store energy.

[The artificial leaf] is not some far-off idea of the future. It's reality, and the subject of a jury-prize-winning film in the GE Focus Forward Film Competition.

-ABC News

Directed by Jared P. Scott

Produced by KELLY NYKS, JARED P. SCOTT

Director of photography ROB FEATHERSTONE

Edited by Jared P. Scott

Graphics by Noah Poole

Music by MALCOLM I. FRANCIS

Sound recording by N.G. POHOLCHUK

Additional cinematography by S.J. WALKER

Title design by MELISSA TIERNEY

Assistant editing by THERON POWELL, S.J. WALKER

Additional camera (nyc) by ANDERS BIRCH, JARED P. SCOTT

Intern JONATHAN HESS

Production assistants LEIGH LANOCHA, KELLY SMITH

Very special thanks to DAN NOCERA, DILEK DOGUTAN KIPER, ALLISON KELSEY

Thanks to EVERYONE AT NOCERA RESEARCH GROUP/LAB, CAROLINE McCALL, JODY MELLO, JENNIFER GALLAGHER, AND MIT