Life Invisible
Director
Bettina Perut & Ivan Osnovikoff
Producers
Harri Grace and Paul King
Genre
Documentary Short
Release
2025
About

Professor Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission. She’s leading an expedition deep into the stunning landscape of the world’s highest and driest desert, the Atacama in Chile. Her goal is to find new medicines to fight the terrifying rise of drug-resistant superbugs. These bugs already kill 5 million people every year, and that figure is expected to soar without the work of explorers like Cristina.

The film has been an official selection at:
- IDFA
- Sanfic Film Festival
- Silbersalz Film Festival
- Hot Docs Film Festival

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

LIFE INVISIBLE was made possible through a collaboration between Nobel Prize Outreach and Grain Media, with support from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, an independent Danish enterprise foundation that supports scientific, humanitarian and social causes.


The film celebrates the legacy of Alexander Fleming, who was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases. Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928 revolutionised the treatment of bacterial infections and his achievement has made the work of Dr Cristina Dorador possible.


Nobel Prize Outreach’s mission is to inspire change guided by Alfred Nobel’s vision to work “for the greatest benefit to humankind”. They do this by developing ambitious national and international outreach activities to disseminate knowledge on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements and to engage and inspire people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times, through various creative initiatives, which includes their support of documentaries.

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NOBEL PRIZE OUTREACH

Life Invisible

"As bacteria become resistant to existing antibiotics, we are running out of drugs to treat infectious diseases. This is a problem that Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, foresaw already in 1945. Today the hunt is on to find new antibiotics with the potential to save millions of lives...."

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Moveable Feast

Bloodlines, Mississippi Screening

"Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff on the Big Impact of the Smallest Species in “Life Invisible”...."

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Hot Docs Film Festival Nominated
SanFic Nominated
IDFA Nominated
Silbersalz Science and Media Awards Nominated
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