Cinematography: Jean Counet
Sound: Joris van Ballegoijen
Editing: Maasja Ooms and Patrick Minks
Research: Anne van Kessel
Production: Brigit Dopheide
Commissioning editors: Barbara Truyen and David Kleijwegt
(C) 2013 VPRO
In her film DNA Dreams, documentary maker Bregtje van der Haak gave us a magnificent view into the world of young scientists eager to unravel the mysteries of our genome. She presented the dreams of genome researchers and their vision of the future. It all happens in China and on a very fast pace. The Beijing Genome Institute, or BGI,looks like a futuristic science factory and has the largest park of genome sequencing machines anywhere on the world. This maverick independent organisation follows the dream of their founder to sequence the genome of every living thing on the planet. An army of hyper intelligent young people (almost every one of the 3000 employers is born after 1980) works in full dedication on one genome project after the other.