The Canadian-Australian documentary Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography will have its world broadcast premiere on CBC.

A 44-minute version of the documentary will premiere as part of the science-focused series The Nature of Things on March 4 on the CBC and its free CBC Gem streaming service.

The documentary co-production comes from Alberta’s Handful of Films and Australia’s Genepool productions and is part of a creative and commercial collaboration between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that began in 2019.

Co-directed by Handful of Films’ Niobe Thompson (Equus) and Genepool’s Daniella Ortega (Enigma Man: A Stone Age Mystery), the full 90-minute version of Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography will have its world premiere screening (in accordance with public health guidelines) on Feb. 28 at the Ted Rogers Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto. The screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Canadian carbon capture scientist Dr. Phil de Luna and Carbon co-director Thompson.

The doc features Golden Globe-winning Australian actor Sarah Snook (Succession) voicing carbon itself and telling the story of how it sparked the earliest life through evolution, keeping the planet’s atmosphere in balance. The film also features animation from renowned Canadian animator Bruce Alcock and interviews with world-renowned experts like Tyson and Tamara Davis, climate scientists Katharine Hayhoe and Will Steffen and forest ecologist, Suzanne Simard, among others.

This story originally appeared in Realscreen

Pictured (L-R): Daniella Ortega and Niobe Thompson