The 21st Century begins an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.
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Written by Ray Kurzweil
Directed by Anthony Waller | Toshi Hoo | Ray Kurzweil
Produced by Ray Kurzweil | Toshi Hoo | Ehren Koepf
Executive Producer Martine Rothblatt
A Terasem Motion Infocuture Presentation
The Singularity Is Near: a True Story About the Future makes its festival debut at the 13th Annual Sonoma Film Festival (April 15-18, 2010) with a special screening on Friday, April 16, 2010.
The feature-length film, directed by Anthony Waller and produced by Ray Kurzweil, Ehren Koepf and Toshi Hoo, executive producer Martine Rothblatt (Terasem Motion InfoCulture), explores the controversial ideas of Ray Kurzweil, based on his New York… read more
Source: Times Herald-Record — September 29, 2010 | Deborah Medenbach
Exponential progress is barely noticeable when it first gets started, but are we headed for an arc to the sky in human development that might make the “human” part optional?
Futurist/inventor Ray Kurzweil comes to the Woodstock Film Festival this year with his film The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, based on his bestselling book of the same title.
“You can have an… read more
Source: h+ magazine — April 19, 2010 | R.U. Sirius
There were many moments of high irony before we Sonoma Film Festival attendees got to preview a somewhat unfinished version of The Singularity Is Near: The Movie — based on the Ray Kurzweil book of the same name. The lights went down, the anticipation rose and we waited in the dark… and waited… with various people shouting mildly snarky comments. Mine was: “John Cage’s version of the Singularity.” A… read more
Source: The Film Panel Notetaker — September 30, 2010 | Brian Geldin
Film Synopsis | Film directed by: Anthony Waller and Ray Kurzweil. The future: human history and mythology have been consumed with foretelling it, traveling to it and depicting it in our pop culture. “Science Fiction” futures are imagined where robots have equaled or surpassed human intelligence and we have conquered disease through genetics and technology. Is that future becoming reality? In Anthony Waller’s The Singularity Is Near,… read more
Source: Creative Communities of the World Magazine — December 21, 2009 | Tony Hudson
Based on Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times bestselling book, this is a documentary scheduled for release in late 2009. It is a documentary with a storyline woven through it, similar to What the BLEEP Do We Know?
I was the on-set Visual Effects Supervisor, the Effects Art Director, and Supervised the completion of over 400 greenscreen, set extension and matte painting shots in 8 months. The elephant animation is… read more
The Singularity Is Near: A True Story About the Future, by filmmakers Anthony Waller, Ray Kurzweil, Ehren Koepf and Toshi Hoo, with Executive Producer Martine Rothblatt (Terasem Motion InfoCulture), makes its world premiere on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at the 30th Annual Breckenridge Film Festival.
The feature-length documentary film presents the daring arguments from Kurzweil’s New York Times bestselling book, The Singularity Is Near. He predicts… read more
The World Technology Network (WTN) in association with TIME magazine has announced the New York premiere screening of The Singularity Is Near: A True Story About the Future by filmmakers Anthony Waller, Ray Kurzweil, Ehren Koepf and Toshi Hoo, with Executive Producer Martine Rothblatt (Terasem Motion InfoCulture) on June 24, 2010 at the Time & Life building in New York City.
The screening and special… read more
The Singularity Is Near: A True Story About the Future received the Best Special Effects award and Second Place Audience Award at the 30th Annual Breckenridge Film Festival in Breckenridge, Colorado on June 13, according to Adele Sommer, festival programming director.
The feature-length documentary film, by filmmakers Anthony Waller, Ray Kurzweil, Ehren Koepf and Toshi Hoo, with Executive Producer Martine Rothblatt (Terasem Motion InfoCulture),… read more
Source: InformationWeek — July 3, 2010 | Michael Greene
The noted futurist has released a movie, The Singularity Is Near, exploring how technology may reshape the fabric of our physical reality and life experiences.
Tech professionals have become somewhat inured to descriptions of the exponential rise in computing power in what is commonly described as Moore’s law. But when inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil strings together dozens of examples on logarithmic graphs to support his… read more
The Singularity Is Near, A True Story About the Future documentary film by inventor, futurist Ray Kurzweil will make an international premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 31, 2010. Screenings are still available:
Wednesday, September 1 @ 12:40 pm
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Thursday, September 2 @ 5:00 pm
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Ray Kurzweil will present an exclusive preview of excerpts from the much-anticipated forthcoming movie The Singularity Is Near at The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Mass. on Monday, May 11 at 7pm.
The special program, An Evening with Ray Kurzweil, is part of the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s acclaimed “Science on Screen” series.… read more
Source: Singularity Hub — August 13, 2009 | Aaron Saenz
With four films coming out less than a year apart, it’s a pretty cool time to be interested in the future and the growth of intelligence. That’s right, four movies on the Singularity! In a year’s span. It’s kind of nuts: Transcendent Man debuted earlier this year, The Singularity Film and The Singularity Is Near will both premier before year’s end, and… read more
A collection of photo stills from the upcoming film The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil, starring Pauley Perrette (from NCIS).
The Singularity Is Near, A True Story About the Future documentary film by filmmakers Anthony Waller, Ray Kurzweil, Ehren Koepf, and Toshi Hoo, with Executive Producer Martine Rothblatt (Terasem Motion InfoCulture), will screen at the Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday, September 30, 1:00 p.m. at the Bearsville Theatre, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY.
A panel discussion featuring Ray Kurzweil and Martine Rothblatt will follow the screening… read more
