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Ep. 140 - The Producers of the Documentary "We Believe In Dinosaurs"

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Monica Long Ross and Amy Ellison are two of the producers at 137 Films, a non-profit production company based in Chicago that promotes science through storytelling. (The other producer, Clayton Brown, couldn't join us for the interview.) In 2008, they released the film The Atom Smashers, all about physicists at Fermilab working to find the Higgs boson. In 2013, they put out The Believers, all about the two scientists who wrongly claimed to have discovered "cold fusion" in 1989. Their next project, currently in post-production, is called We Believe in Dinosaurs, all about Noah's Ark, Creationism, and America's troubled relationship with science. I spoke with them about Ken Ham's reaction to their project, whether Ark Encounter has led to an economic boom in the community it's in, and why the word "Believe" is in the title of the film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm here at 137 films and I'll let my interviewees introduce themselves in just a second

0:07.2

but this is a nonprofit production company based in Chicago that promotes science

0:12.0

through storytelling.

0:13.6

In 2008, they released a film called The Adam Smashers,

0:17.1

all about physicists at Fermi Lab working

0:19.6

to find the Higgs boson.

0:21.0

In 2013, they put out the believers, all about the two scientists who wrongly

0:25.6

claimed to have discovered cold fusion in 1989 and their next project

0:30.2

currently in post-production is called We Believe in Dinosaurs, all about Noah's Arc,

0:36.0

creationism, and America's troubled relationship with science.

0:40.4

And just so you know who I'm talking to, I'll let them introduce themselves.

0:43.6

I'm Monica Long Ross and I'm co-director and co-producer of the film We Believe in Dinosaurs.

0:49.4

And I'm Amy Ellison and I'm co-producer of We Believe at Dinosaurs.

0:54.0

So let me ask you both.

0:55.0

How what's the genesis of this film?

0:57.0

Why this subject?

0:58.0

Because you focused on Arc encounter, the Nooz Arc theme park in Kentucky.

1:02.0

What led you to say, OK, this could be the subject of a documentary?

1:06.6

I think that it starts way back when we were doing the Adam Smashers,

1:10.4

and we started around 2004auver was happening and

1:13.0

along in our shooting of that film we heard about Dover was happening

1:19.0

and Intelligence Design was a dressed up version of creationism that the group was trying to get

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