Mila Aung-Thwin & Van Royko
2017
In the southern French countryside, a group of dedicated scientists from 37 countries around the world are collaboratively building the world's most complex experiment: An artificial star on Earth that will provide perpetual, cheap, clean energy for all mankind. If it fails, it will be one of the biggest scientific and political blunders of all time. Meanwhile, maverick inventors in garages are also trying to unlock nuclear fusion, at a fraction of the cost. Sceptics are not convinced. As it is often said: "Nuclear fusion is the energy of the future...and always will be!" Are we about to engineer our way out of the energy crisis, or betting on a lottery ticket that won't pay off?
CREDITS
Feature Competition Artistic Vision Award at Big Sky
Golden Owl Bergen International Film Festival
❛ 'Let There Be Light' is an snappy birds-eye view, a state of the nation(s) glimpse, of ITERs scientists, politicos and construction workers as they push towards 'first plasma' in 2025, co-incidentally the same year that Sagrada Família should be complete. Praise be to science and forward thinking government ❜
— Kurt Halyard, Screen Anarchy
❛ A cinematic narrative unlike anything ever made about this 'holy grail of energy.' ❜
— Laban Coblentz, ITER