Design Economics Podcast (Episode 12)
Join host Vinny Tafuro and guest John Feldman, filmmaker and founder of Hummingbird Films, for a conversation about how ecological documentaries challenge scientific orthodoxy. Over his forty-year career, John’s work has evolved from defending traditional evolutionary theory to documenting how cooperation and symbiosis drive evolution and ecological health. Their conversation explores how this intellectual humility contrasts with the scientific overconfidence that plagues economics, and how interdisciplinary filmmaking can disrupt entrenched paradigms in both science and economics.
John Feldman is a highly original and critically acclaimed filmmaker who works as a writer, director, cinematographer, and editor. His career spans over 40 years and covers a wide range of genres, including independent dramatic feature films, documentaries, experimental shorts, and educational films. Feldman’s recent film Regenerating Life, How to cool the planet, feed the world, and live happily ever after (2023) looks at the climate crisis from an ecological perspective. Screening globally, it is translated into 11 languages. “John Feldman’s film is a masterpiece in which he puts life, in terms of healthy ecosystems, centre-stage as the Earth’s extraordinary global-temperature regulator. (Peter Bunyard, The Ecologist Magazine, UK).
About John Feldman
John Feldman is a highly original and critically acclaimed filmmaker who works as a writer, director, cinematographer, and editor. His career spans over 40 years and covers a wide range of genres, including independent dramatic feature films, documentaries, experimental shorts, and educational films. Feldman’s recent film Regenerating Life, How to cool the planet, feed the world, and live happily ever after (2023) looks at the climate crisis from an ecological perspective. Screening globally, it is translated into 11 languages. “John Feldman’s film is a masterpiece in which he puts life, in terms of healthy ecosystems, centre-stage as the Earth’s extraordinary global-temperature regulator. (Peter Bunyard, The Ecologist Magazine, UK).