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SUMMARY:Film Screening - Ethics in Film presents: Gattaca (1997)
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DESCRIPTION:Directed by Andrew Niccol | USA | 1997 | 1h 46m | Starring Eth
 an Hawke\, Uma Thurman\, Jude Law\, Ernest Borgnine\, Elias Koteas.\n\nVin
 cent Freeman has always fantasized about traveling into outer space\, but 
 is grounded by his status as a genetically inferior in-valid. He decides t
 o fight his fate by purchasing the genes of Jerome Morrow\, a laboratory-e
 ngineered valid. He assumes Jerome’s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca 
 space program\, where he falls in love with Irene. An investigation into t
 he death of a Gattaca officer complicates Vincent’s plans.\n\nA one-off 
 screening followed by a panel discussion and Q&A\, organised by Ethics In 
 Film at the Ethox Centre. This event is supported by Reuben College\, the 
 Oxford University Department of Physiology\, Anatomy and Genetics and TORC
 H Medical Humanities\, in collaboration with the Ultimate Picture Palace.\
 n\nAngeliki Kerasidou (Chair): Angeliki is Associate Professor in Bioethic
 s at the Ethox Centre\, University of Oxford and Official Fellow of Reuben
  College. Her research interests include the ethics of data-driven technol
 ogies in global health research and in healthcare.\n\nAndrew Moeller: Andr
 ew is a historian and Hosted Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institut
 e. His research interests include the history of human enhancement and its
  relevance to contemporary debates and discussions.\n\nKiri Bloom Walden: 
 Kiri teaches film and cultural studies at the Oxford Department of Lifelon
 g Learning. Her research and teaching interests encompass a wide variety o
 f subjects\, including Science Fiction\, Horror\, Post-2020 European Cinem
 a\, Antipodean Cinema\, and the Auteur system.\n\nHugo Fernandes: Hugo is 
 a Group Leader in the Department of Physiology\, Anatomy and Genetics base
 d in the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery at the University of Ox
 ford. His research interests include understanding the early stages of neu
 ronal dysfunction in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disorders.
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SPEAKER:Angeliki Kerasidou (Chair) (Ethox Centre\, Oxford)\, Andrew Moelle
 r (Uehiro Oxford Institute)\, Kiri Bloom Walden (Oxford Department of Life
 long Learning)\, Hugo Fernandes (Oxford)
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