SYMBIOTIC EARTH explores the ideas of Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through collaboration.

As a young scientist in the 1960s, Margulis was ridiculed when she proposed that symbiosis was a key driver of evolution, but she persisted. Instead of the mechanistic view that life evolved through random genetic mutations and competition, she presented a symbiotic narrative in which bacteria joined together to create the complex cells that formed animals, plants and all other organisms - which together form a multi-dimensional living entity that covers the Earth.

Filmmaker John Feldman travels globally to meet Margulis' cutting-edge colleagues and asks: What happens when the truth changes?

SYMBIOTIC EARTH examines the worldview that has led to climate change and extreme capitalism and offers a new approach to understanding life that encourages a sustainable and symbiotic lifestyle.

147 minutes.

Directed by John Feldman

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/254312250