Description
Dir. Alexandra Dean, 2017, 89 min, documentary
Guest Speaker: Sarah Rose Siskind - https://sarahrosesiskind.com/
Film Synopsis: Hollywood glamour meets hardcore engineering. Bombshell uncovers how screen legend Hedy Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping technology, a radical idea that laid the groundwork for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, yet remained largely forgotten and unrecognized for decades. This 2017 documentary is a thrilling reminder that scientific innovation can come from the most unexpected minds, and that credit is often unevenly distributed.
About the Speaker: Sarah Rose Siskind is a science comedy writer who turns complex ideas into laughs and explores the intersections of technology, gender and pop culture. Founder of Hello SciCom and former head writer for Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk, she’s written for Fox, Nat Geo, and the White House Press Correspondents’ Dinner, and has been featured in The New Yorker.
Theatre
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
Expected Run Time is 150 minutes
