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Tempesta (2004)

My rating: 4/10

Doctors Julian Reed and Barbara Sullivan are rising stars in their respective fields at elite Wallace University when they fall in love with each other – and with their mutual passion for the idea of cloning a Neanderthal. Their plan is to extract DNA from the world’s only non-fossilized Neanderthal remains, implant them into a human embryo, and create the first “modern human” Neanderthal.…

Tim Disney has a producer of environmentally and socially-conscious documentaries and a director of narrative features. He served as executive producer on the documentaries “Gift of the Game,” “Racing Against the Clock,” “A Life Among Whales,” “The Price of Sugar” and “The Last Mountain,” which, in 2011, won both the International Documentary Assn.’s prestigious Pare Lorentz Award and was a nominee for the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. 

William (2019)

Doctors Julian Reed and Barbara Sullivan, fall in love with each other and with the idea of cloning a Neanderthal from ancient DNA. Against the express directive of University administrators they follow through on this audacious idea. The result is William: the first Neanderthal to walk the earth for some 35,000 years. William tries his best to fit into the world around him. But his distinctive physical features and his unique way of thinking--his "otherness"--set him apart and provoke fear. William's story is powerful and unique, but his struggle to find love and assert his own identity in a hostile world is universal--and timeless.

Directed by:   Tim Disney

Starring:   Will Brittain, Waleed Zuaiter, Maria Dizzia, Beth Grant