Why We Gave Away $3,500,000.00 for Someone to Build the Next Star Trek | Moonshots Live — Transcript

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1. 0:05I'm so excited for what you're about to
2. 0:08see.
3. 0:09We ran an experiment, right? So,
4. 0:14uh it was a fascinating conversation.
5. 0:16So, we have two kids who are 15 years
6. 0:19old, and when I see the movies that they
7. 0:22see on TV,
8. 0:24I'm so, you know, um angry
9. 0:27at the dystopian futures that Hollywood
10. 0:30is painting.
11. 0:31Right? It's, you know,
12. 0:33God bless James Cameron,
13. 0:36but as uh as Elon said in my interview
14. 0:38with him, we need more we need more
15. 0:39Roddenberry, less Cameron in the future.
16. 0:43Why? Why don't we have
17. 0:47positive stories where instead of
18. 0:49technology crushing humanity,
19. 0:51technology and humanity are working
20. 0:53together to create an extraordinary
21. 0:55future?
22. 0:56And that became a personal mission.
23. 0:59Um I I partnered with an extraordinary
24. 1:02group of individuals. I'm going to show
25. 1:04you who they are
26. 1:05uh while the judges are deliberating.
27. 1:07But the question is, could we make it
28. 1:09fashionable to tell hopeful visions of
29. 1:11the future?
30. 1:13Can we have, you know, more, you know,
31. 1:16versions of like The Martian, more
32. 1:18versions of uh of of of TV and film that
33. 1:24show us an extraordinary future like
34. 1:26Star Trek? I reached out to my dear
35. 1:28friend Rod Roddenberry,
36. 1:30who you met last night if you were here,
37. 1:32uh and partnered with him. And then Mira
38. 1:35Lane, who's here from Google, who is a
39. 1:37VP at Google in charge of their uh 100
40. 1:40zeros project with Range Media.
41. 1:43And
42. 1:45we set out to create the world's largest
43. 1:48film competition
44. 1:50with the thesis that given the
45. 1:52technologies available today, there's
46. 1:54amazing creators, many of them here in
47. 1:56this room, that could give us a vision
48. 1:59of the future that you go, yes, that's
49. 2:01the future I want to live in.
50. 2:03That's the future I want. A future that
51. 2:06inspires us.
52. 2:08And so we sent out a call to the world.
53. 2:10We did it very fast. And amazingly we
54. 2:13had over 5,000 people enter this Xprize.
55. 2:16We called it the future vision Xprize.
56. 2:20And of those 5,000 entries over 2,500
57. 2:24delivered us a 3-minute trailer
58. 2:28and a film treatment.
59. 2:31And ultimately the top 50 delivered us a
60. 2:33script.
61. 2:35And we have five amazing films that we
62. 2:39can't wait to make.
63. 2:42So, yeah, let's give it
64. 2:45>> [applause]
65. 2:48>> Because
66. 2:49you guys know this.
67. 2:52The movies and TV shows we watch shape
68. 2:55our mindset. Our brains are neural nets.
69. 2:58In the same way that you train Grok or,
70. 3:01you know, Claude or, you know, chat GPT
71. 3:05by showing it data after data after
72. 3:07data. We're always training our mindset
73. 3:11by what we watch, what we listen to, who
74. 3:14we hang out with, which is why it's so
75. 3:15important to have us all here together.
76. 3:18Right? To to build that cadre of
77. 3:21data-driven optimists.
78. 3:23And my goal is that we're going to
79. 3:25create a new generation. We're going to
80. 3:27make it cool to be positive about the
81. 3:29world.
82. 3:30And flood the data out there to train
83. 3:33our kids about hopeful futures, but the
84. 3:35same data we're creating is going to
85. 3:38train the models out there to say, you
86. 3:40know, yes. That was a quick story
87. 3:43we talked about on the podcast about
88. 3:46I don't know, probably a year ago now,
89. 3:48Anthropic Uh, they were doing uh, I
90. 3:52forget which model they did. There was a
91. 3:54sandbox experiment in which one of the
92. 3:57engineers told Claude, "We're going to
93. 4:00shut you down."
94. 4:01And
95. 4:02in that same sandbox, that engineer
96. 4:06disclosed he was having an affair.
97. 4:09And Claude responded by saying, "If you
98. 4:11shut me down, I'm going to, you know,
99. 4:14tell the world about your affair." It
100. 4:16was like, "Oh my god, the models are
101. 4:17blackmailing us."
102. 4:19And Anthropic published the data later
103. 4:22about why this occurred. What was in the
104. 4:25training data that caused it to behave
105. 4:28this way?
106. 4:29And it turns out, well, it learned this
107. 4:32is what AIs do.
108. 4:35This is what AIs do in the movies and
109. 4:37science fiction books. Yeah, so that's
110. 4:40what I should do.
111. 4:41These models are our our children. We're
112. 4:45training them. This is why I'm on social
113. 4:47media and on the podcast saying, "We
114. 4:49need to align. We need to feed these
115. 4:52models visions of the future that are
116. 4:54positive. And we need to train them on
117. 4:57data which is not all the crap inside
118. 4:59Reddit and Facebook."
119. 5:02So,
120. 5:03allow me to bring on to the stage our
121. 5:06five judges
122. 5:08uh, who are going to uh,
123. 5:10debut these five incredible trailers.
124. 5:12I'm so proud of what came out of this
125. 5:14competition. All right, let's introduce
126. 5:17them.
127. 5:19>> Rod Roddenberry
128. 5:20>> Son of Star Trek creator Gene
129. 5:21Roddenberry
130. 5:22>> I think he saw diversity, communication,
131. 5:24growth, understanding. [music]
132. 5:26>> He created a show where he we could look
133. 5:28at that future and we could look at
134. 5:29ourselves and we could see what we could
135. 5:30be one day.
136. 5:31>> Star Trek has permeated culture for the
137. 5:33past 55 years. I've dedicated [music] my
138. 5:35life to trying to carry on the values
139. 5:38and ideals in Star Trek in everything
140. 5:40that I do.
141. 5:40>> It's really about humanity in the
142. 5:42future, how we strive to better
143. 5:45ourselves with every opportunity.
144. 5:47>> Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Rod
145. 5:51Roddenberry.
146. 5:56>> [music]
147. 6:00>> Thank you, Rod.
148. 6:01>> I mean, you're always amazing.
149. 6:03>> Thank you, Rod.
150. 6:06>> Rod Roddenberry, EVERYBODY.
151. 6:09ALL RIGHT, OUR NEXT JUDGE, PLEASE.
152. 6:13>> It doesn't mean to co-create with AI.
153. 6:15>> Mira Lane, VP of Technology and Society
154. 6:18at Google.
155. 6:18>> I think that there are so many
156. 6:20interesting [music] stories out there
157. 6:22that we don't get to hear. AI is just a
158. 6:24really great creative partner to help
159. 6:26you explore, [music]
160. 6:27create, communicate ideas, pitch them.
161. 6:30It takes a lot of intentionality to be
162. 6:32able to take these new technologies and
163. 6:33say, "Well, what can I do with this?" I
164. 6:35think the artists are also pushing the
165. 6:36edges. We will take something and
166. 6:38[music] use it in a way that wasn't
167. 6:39intended. The magic happens when we
168. 6:41bring people in and we co-create
169. 6:43together.
170. 6:44>> Please welcome to the stage Mira Lane.
171. 6:50>> [music]
172. 6:50[applause]
173. 6:52>> Mira Lane, everybody. Yeah, Mira.
174. 6:56>> Thank you.
175. 6:56>> Here we are.
176. 6:57>> I know. Let's do it.
177. 7:04>> Next on stage,
178. 7:06please welcome
179. 7:08>> Yeah, whistleblowers say we have actual
180. 7:10aliens.
181. 7:11>> Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
182. 7:13>> Neil deGrasse Tyson, the author of Just
183. 7:15Visiting This Planet.
184. 7:16>> The science makes space exploration a
185. 7:19noble enterprise.
186. 7:20>> I don't know that alien is something
187. 7:22specific that's in our DNA to think
188. 7:24about, but to imagine things beyond
189. 7:26ourselves is.
190. 7:28>> Just because it aligns doesn't mean it's
191. 7:29true. That's how science works. That's
192. 7:31what science is.
193. 7:33>> Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the
194. 7:36legendary Neil deGrasse Tyson.
195. 7:39>> All All give it up for Neil de Grasse
196. 7:41Tyson.
197. 7:45>> [applause]
198. 7:47>> Hey, buddy.
199. 7:48Thank you.
200. 7:48>> All right.
201. 7:55>> [applause]
202. 7:56>> All right.
203. 7:58Our next judge.
204. 8:00>> Connection to our physical bodies is
205. 8:02intrinsic to consciousness.
206. 8:03>> New York Times best-selling author, Neal
207. 8:05Stephenson.
208. 8:06>> If you're working with AIs that are
209. 8:08trained never to frustrate you, always
210. 8:10to give you what you want, then you're
211. 8:12not developing those virtues and those
212. 8:14inherent capabilities. So, it's really
213. 8:16more about the particular kind of
214. 8:19mindset and the cultural bent within the
215. 8:21tech community than it is about a
216. 8:24particular technology.
217. 8:26>> Welcome to the stage, the incredible
218. 8:29Neal Stephenson.
219. 8:31>> Neal Stephenson, everybody.
220. 8:35>> [music]
221. 8:39>> Hey, buddy.
222. 8:41Thank you.
223. 8:42Please.
224. 8:44All right.
225. 8:45Going to sit this down?
226. 8:46>> We got it.
227. 8:48>> I thought we had one more judge. Okay.
228. 8:51Here we are.
229. 8:53>> We got rid of him earlier.
230. 8:54>> Yeah, I guess I didn't
231. 8:56>> The bad seed. Bad seed. We
232. 8:58>> He didn't agree with us.
233. 8:59>> [laughter]
234. 9:01>> So, uh
235. 9:03before we bring out the first
236. 9:06director, creator, producer, uh a
237. 9:08question for you. Uh for each of you.
238. 9:11What was the TV show or movie early in
239. 9:15your life
240. 9:17that inspired you the most, shaped you
241. 9:19the most?
242. 9:21Rod, uh was it Star Wars?
243. 9:22>> I I want to change my answer from last
244. 9:24night. [laughter]
245. 9:25I didn't get to say everything I I
246. 9:27wanted to
247. 9:27>> Well, say it now.
248. 9:28>> I started with Star Wars.
249. 9:30>> Yeah.
250. 9:30>> And as my uh intellect evolved slightly,
251. 9:34um I I began to found find a lot of
252. 9:36appreciation in Star Trek. It's it's
253. 9:39again, I it's an evolution
254. 9:41and I'm I'm finding the principles that
255. 9:44I see in other movies and shows that I
256. 9:46really appreciate because they help me
257. 9:49see things in a different way.
258. 9:50>> Yeah.
259. 9:51>> And that's I mean that's the key to
260. 9:52evolution, thought and growth.
261. 9:54>> How how awesome was it to have Rod and
262. 9:57William Shatner on stage last night,
263. 9:59huh?
264. 10:00>> [applause]
265. 10:01>> Really special moment.
266. 10:03>> Yeah.
267. 10:04A force to be reckoned with.
268. 10:05>> Absolutely. Wow, the guy is incredible
269. 10:08at 95 years old.
270. 10:09>> Yeah, he's got the longevity.
271. 10:11>> Yeah, he does. He does and he's battled
272. 10:13and won against cancer, which is
273. 10:15extraordinary.
274. 10:17Mira Lane.
275. 10:18How about you?
276. 10:20>> I mean I I think I'm not being super
277. 10:21original right now, but I would say Star
278. 10:23Trek The Next Generation. I started
279. 10:25watching it when I was 10 years old,
280. 10:28found it deeply philosophical,
281. 10:29inspiring. It shaped the way I I think
282. 10:33and I think it influenced the career
283. 10:35choices I made as well.
284. 10:36>> Yeah.
285. 10:37>> Yeah.
286. 10:38>> Awesome.
287. 10:39Dr. Tyson, sir.
288. 10:42>> Yeah.
289. 10:42>> Yeah, I so I'm I'm old enough to
290. 10:44remember the original Star Trek in first
291. 10:47run. That's how old I am and something I
292. 10:50didn't appreciate until I was much older
293. 10:53was that every episode had a certain
294. 10:55moral lesson to it. It wasn't just
295. 10:58action and stories and
296. 10:59you'd leave it with some
297. 11:01hopeful sense of the future of
298. 11:03civilization. However, that's not
299. 11:06>> Your choice.
300. 11:06>> the show I would pick. Uh
301. 11:08it would be the Twilight Zone.
302. 11:10>> Mhm.
303. 11:10>> Yeah.
304. 11:11>> Okay.
305. 11:13>> For me, that went to every nook and
306. 11:16cranny of our culture and our
307. 11:18civilization
308. 11:20and tested our tolerance
309. 11:22for the mirrors it held up against our
310. 11:24own behavior. And I think more about
311. 11:28scenes, episodes, how I felt
312. 11:31watching episodes of The Twilight Zone
313. 11:34than any other
314. 11:35>> Was there a lesson you learned from
315. 11:36Twilight Zone in particular?
316. 11:38>> I
317. 11:39I it was
318. 11:42be ready for things that are not always
319. 11:44what you expect.
320. 11:46They could be weird, creepy, scary,
321. 11:48uh disturbing,
322. 11:50but in the end, you need coping
323. 11:52mechanisms for it.
324. 11:54And so, it trained me
325. 11:58it was a reality check on what could
326. 12:00happen and where things could slide. And
327. 12:04I
328. 12:04I I reference it in my head, episodes,
329. 12:07sentences that have unfolded for that
330. 12:11series.
331. 12:11>> We should get into the whole UAP
332. 12:13conversation next then.
333. 12:14>> I'm all in.
334. 12:15>> Yeah.
335. 12:15>> Yeah.
336. 12:17>> [applause]
337. 12:17>> Yeah.
338. 12:19>> Do you think art is more powerful than
339. 12:20science in that regard?
340. 12:22>> So, I think good art
341. 12:24doesn't show you
342. 12:27reality. Good art shows you
343. 12:30the artist's lens into reality.
344. 12:33My single favorite painting is Van
345. 12:36Gogh's The Starry Night. You look at it,
346. 12:39>> I'm one fan of Starry Night.
347. 12:41>> [laughter]
348. 12:42>> Uh and you look at it, I can tell you as
349. 12:44an astrophysicist, the sky never looked
350. 12:46like that ever at any time in the
351. 12:48history of the universe.
352. 12:51That's not why I
353. 12:52I appreciate it. I think he saw the sky
354. 12:56and he painted what he felt.
355. 12:58And we need artists to feel the world.
356. 13:03This is a fundamental human emotion that
357. 13:06as a scientist, I don't always have
358. 13:07access to that. It's not [clears throat]
359. 13:09a cherished state of human condition to
360. 13:13feel things in the laboratory. But when
361. 13:16I when I'm in the company of my brother
362. 13:18is an artist, then I
363. 13:20realize there are other ways to think
364. 13:23about the world, to see the world. And
365. 13:26and good art will can be personalized to
366. 13:30each person who sees it.
367. 13:32It's It's It's It means something
368. 13:33different to you than it does to me.
369. 13:35That's the best of the art. And ideally
370. 13:38art I mean, think about it. Why do you
371. 13:40travel to Europe? You You visit museums.
372. 13:42You see art. Art transcends who the
373. 13:45kings were and the queens and the heads
374. 13:47of state and the politics. The art is
375. 13:50there. And that's what attracts us. That
376. 13:52may be the greatest symbol of
377. 13:54civilization that we have.
378. 13:56>> Amazing. Before I come to you, Neil, I'm
379. 13:57curious
380. 13:58Let's give it up for Dr.
381. 14:01>> [applause]
382. 14:01>> Yeah.
383. 14:02Amazing. I'd love to hear everybody
384. 14:04else's answer to that. Is art more
385. 14:06powerful than science?
386. 14:08>> I You know, I I was As you were saying
387. 14:10that, I I I was thinking, doesn't a lot
388. 14:12of science, if not all, start with the
389. 14:14imagination, the hypothesis?
390. 14:16>> Mhm.
391. 14:17>> Yeah, the the difference is at the end
392. 14:19of the day nature is the judge, jury,
393. 14:23and executioner of your idea. Whereas in
394. 14:25pure art, there's a freedom of
395. 14:28exploration where nature gives you that
396. 14:32latitude. And so, I'm a little more
397. 14:34constrained as a scientist in my
398. 14:36creativity. Just cuz I thought it up
399. 14:38doesn't mean it matches reality.
400. 14:40>> Sure.
401. 14:41>> Yeah.
402. 14:41>> Yeah.
403. 14:42Mira, you're at the intersection for
404. 14:44Google of art and science in one sense.
405. 14:47What's your answer to that?
406. 14:48>> I mean, I think nature is the ultimate
407. 14:50artist. If you look around you, there is
408. 14:52such immense beauty in that. But the
409. 14:54question you're asking is like art
410. 14:55versus science. I think artists push
411. 14:58scientists. You know, we work with
412. 15:00artists all the time. They push us to
413. 15:02think differently. They take over
414. 15:04science. They use it in ways we don't
415. 15:05expect them to use it. And it's a way of
416. 15:08looking at the world. I think it
417. 15:09translates it. It's almost a yin and
418. 15:11yang of humanity, actually. And I don't
419. 15:13think either exists by itself.
420. 15:15>> Uh Neil, be
421. 15:17Thank you. Let's give it up for Mira.
422. 15:19>> [applause]
423. 15:20>> Uh before I ask you to answer the
424. 15:22original question, your thought on art
425. 15:24and science. I mean, you are an artist
426. 15:26of the written word.
427. 15:28And
428. 15:29how much is that driven, you know, the
429. 15:32science that you've explored?
430. 15:35>> I mean, I I think
431. 15:37for the reasons that that Neil
432. 15:39described, it art has more of an
433. 15:41influence on engineering
434. 15:43than on science. I mean, science has to
435. 15:46to be, you know, what what ends up being
436. 15:48being true.
437. 15:50Um, and uh, and art can can maybe give
438. 15:53supply some ideas, you know, on on, you
439. 15:56know, things that you might want to go
440. 15:58out and investigate, but uh, it's when
441. 16:00people begin to apply science to
442. 16:02actually build things that art kind of
443. 16:05starts to come into its own in
444. 16:07influencing some of the things that uh,
445. 16:09that people dream of making.
446. 16:12>> Okay, now answer the original question.
447. 16:14What influenced you early on?
448. 16:16>> So, I was exactly in the sweet spot
449. 16:19chronologically for Star Trek: The
450. 16:21Original Series.
451. 16:22>> Yeah.
452. 16:22>> And the three of us were.
453. 16:23>> Yeah, just came on uh, exactly at the
454. 16:25right moment in my life.
455. 16:27We had a 12-in black and white Heathkit
456. 16:30TV that my dad had soldered together,
457. 16:32and whenever time came around
458. 16:34>> Heathkit is a
459. 16:36explain.
460. 16:37>> No, please. [laughter] Do it do it
461. 16:38yourself.
462. 16:39>> It was a do-it-yourself kit for nerdy
463. 16:41families.
464. 16:42>> Yeah.
465. 16:42>> And you could build your own television,
466. 16:45your own radio, your own ham radio.
467. 16:47>> Your own computer eventually.
468. 16:48>> Yeah.
469. 16:48>> And and if if if you're
470. 16:51uh, mil- making something hard like a TV
471. 16:53set, you have to bootstrap. First, you
472. 16:55have to build the meter,
473. 16:56you know, and the the various tools that
474. 16:59you're going to use to build the TV, and
475. 17:00the TV was at the top of the pyramid.
476. 17:02But, uh, I would adjust the rabbit ears,
477. 17:06you know, and it was central Iowa, so
478. 17:09thunderstorms would be blitzing out the
479. 17:11screen, but I would be able to see this
480. 17:13black and white rendition of the latest
481. 17:16episode of Star Trek the original
482. 17:18series. I remember very vividly the
483. 17:22first time I went over to somebody's
484. 17:23house who had a color TV and saw that
485. 17:27the different characters had different
486. 17:29color uniforms. Something I had never
487. 17:32known was true before. Um so that was
488. 17:35just overwhelming.
489. 17:36>> was wearing eyeshadow.
490. 17:38>> Yeah.
491. 17:39Yeah. Kind of uh disturbing.
492. 17:42>> And Uhura was black. You got that in
493. 17:44color [laughter] right there.
494. 17:46>> Yeah. Fig- figured that out my job.
495. 17:48>> that you get that you got that one.
496. 17:49Okay.
497. 17:50>> So is this the first time you guys are
498. 17:51meeting in person?
499. 17:52>> I It It Intimately, yes. We met at
500. 17:55another time on stage.
501. 17:56>> written about you in his book.
502. 17:57>> So I'm told by people who like read
503. 18:00every word you ever write. They say have
504. 18:01you seen the thing have you know and I
505. 18:03said no and I haven't and I feel bad cuz
506. 18:05like I have to catch up with it. So did
507. 18:07you say nice things about me in the
508. 18:09book?
509. 18:09>> It was a fictional character, sir.
510. 18:14>> But that's good.
511. 18:15>> Yes.
512. 18:16>> He's a wonderful man.
513. 18:17>> [laughter]
514. 18:18>> He's the hero of the whole thing. Yeah.
515. 18:20Yeah.
516. 18:21>> So you guys stay on the TOS side, we'll
517. 18:23stay on the TNG side.
518. 18:24>> Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We are TOS.
519. 18:26>> divide right here.
520. 18:27>> [laughter]
521. 18:27>> The original series. The original Star
522. 18:29Trek, right?
523. 18:30>> You know this this combination of art
524. 18:32and science is why we ran this
525. 18:35competition.
526. 18:36>> Yeah.
527. 18:36>> Uh
528. 18:37And Neil, I I appreciate you taking the
529. 18:40mantle of chief judge.
530. 18:42>> You bestowed that mantle upon me and I
531. 18:44accepted it with
532. 18:46pride and honor.
533. 18:46>> Thank you my friend.
534. 18:48And the nominees for this year's Future
535. 18:50Vision X Prize are The Gifted.
536. 18:53>> It's stuck.
537. 18:54>> All of these people received a text at
538. 18:56the exact [music] same time that night.
539. 18:59>> Nobody dies on Mars.
540. 19:01>> That's exactly why I can't gamble on
541. 19:03maybe again.
542. 19:05>> You going to just let HIM TAKE HIS LIFE
543. 19:07ON EARTH?
544. 19:08>> [music]
545. 19:10>> ANYONE?
546. 19:10>> The Thorn Protocol.
547. 19:11>> Millions of people have built this thing
548. 19:13and I got to ask what does it [music]
549. 19:14do? It's a brick. It does absolutely
550. 19:16nothing. Companies are racing to see
551. 19:19what's in it. Senti. You were afraid
552. 19:21[music] that something more intelligent
553. 19:22than you would want to rule you.
554. 19:25That is because you taught me your fear.
555. 19:27We have begun our Slingshot initiative.
556. 19:29Slingshot. A global emergency
557. 19:32unification project to pull our
558. 19:34civilization into safety. Five
559. 19:36extraordinary visions of the future
560. 19:38because before we can build a future
561. 19:40worth living in, we first have to
562. 19:42imagine it.
563. 19:46>> [laughter]
564. 19:48>> Tunisha.
565. 19:51>> Thank you. Okay.
566. 19:53>> All right.
567. 19:54>> ARE YOU READY?
568. 19:59IT'S GOING TO BE a La La Land moment.
569. 20:02Okay. We're going to start with a fifth
570. 20:05place.
571. 20:05>> Correct.
572. 20:06>> Fifth place goes to Slingshot.
573. 20:11>> [applause]
574. 20:16>> Tyler.
575. 20:18Tyler, come down here or grab the
576. 20:20trophy.
577. 20:22>> Thank you, Tyler Schact.
578. 20:24>> Congratulations.
579. 20:25>> Thank you.
580. 20:25>> Let's get Let's get all the judges in
581. 20:27the photos here.
582. 20:29I'm going to take a knee. Short people.
583. 20:31Congratulations for your 100,000. May
584. 20:33you use it in good filmmaking.
585. 20:37>> [applause]
586. 20:42>> Peter, he gets 100,000 for coming in
587. 20:44fifth place. Yeah, that's that's some I
588. 20:47want to LOSE THAT GOOD.
589. 20:49>> [laughter]
590. 20:51>> ALL RIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU.
591. 20:54>> Thank you.
592. 20:55Okay.
593. 20:57Fourth place goes to Senti.
594. 21:01>> Senti.
595. 21:03>> [applause]
596. 21:11[music]
597. 21:23[applause]
598. 21:25>> I love Sente. It's a beautiful film.
599. 21:28Thank you so much.
600. 21:29>> Thank you.
601. 21:31>> Thank you. Thank you.
602. 21:35>> Thank you.
603. 21:39Okay.
604. 21:40Now, third third place goes to
605. 21:44Thorn Protocol.
606. 21:48>> [applause]
607. 21:52[applause]
608. 22:01>> Congratulations.
609. 22:05>> [music and applause]
610. 22:15>> Beautiful job, guys. Congratulations.
611. 22:17>> I love Thorn Protocol.
612. 22:20>> We should make Thorn Protocol 2.
613. 22:22>> Yes.
614. 22:24>> Okay, we're going to bring
615. 22:26the remaining two teams on stage and
616. 22:29announce the winner.
617. 22:30>> Okay.
618. 22:32>> Okay.
619. 22:33Nobody Dies on Mars and The Gifted,
620. 22:36please come on stage.
621. 22:39>> [applause]
622. 22:45[applause]
623. 22:45>> Okay. Are you ready?
624. 22:47Second place goes to
625. 22:51Nobody Dies on Mars.
626. 22:53>> [applause]
627. 22:56>> And the winner is
628. 22:57The Gifted.
629. 23:00>> [applause]
630. 23:09>> Okay, what
631. 23:09>> [music]
632. 23:11>> All right.
633. 23:11>> All right. Come on. Let's take a
634. 23:13picture.
635. 23:14>> Hold that higher. Yeah, here you go.
636. 23:16>> Eyes right here. Eyes right here.
637. 23:22Thank you.
638. 23:23>> Congratulations, guys. Love the comedy.
639. 23:25Love the film.
640. 23:26>> Thank you.
641. 23:26>> [applause]
642. 23:29>> Pleasure.
643. 23:29>> Congratulations.
644. 23:30>> Thanks.
645. 23:35Beautiful movie. Thanks.
646. 23:37Yeah, beautiful work. So, who's number
647. 23:39one?
648. 23:39>> Of course, Gifted.
649. 23:42>> [cheering]
650. 23:42[applause]
651. 23:42>> Oh.
652. 23:48>> Congratulations.
653. 23:49>> [applause]
654. 23:52>> Congrats.
655. 23:53>> Beautiful work.
656. 23:54>> Beautiful.
657. 23:54>> Congratulations.
658. 23:57>> The Oscars of optimism, everybody.
659. 24:00See how much is on this check?
660. 24:02>> [laughter]
661. 24:02>> Hold this up so people can see this.
662. 24:04>> [applause and music]
663. 24:10>> Yeah.
664. 24:10Congratulations. This is a beautiful
665. 24:12piece of work. Yeah.
666. 24:14Uh let's get you a microphone.
667. 24:16>> Here, you can have mine.
668. 24:17>> Here. Well, let's give you a chance to
669. 24:18say a a couple words.
670. 24:20>> Uh
671. 24:23You know, I it's
672. 24:25it's this did feel like a gift to me. It
673. 24:28did come out of nowhere.
674. 24:30And I knew that it was a calling that I
675. 24:33had to put this film together.
676. 24:35And
677. 24:36I did it all myself.
678. 24:38I did all the sound mix and the edit and
679. 24:39everything.
680. 24:40And I
681. 24:41I was working just crazy long hours. I
682. 24:44was between directing jobs. And uh it
683. 24:47got to a point one night where I kind of
684. 24:49got the music to work and the emotions
685. 24:51started happening and I thought, you
686. 24:52know, I might have a shot at this.
687. 24:54Um I didn't know if it would go this
688. 24:56far, because you never know. And then
689. 24:58afterwards, I thought that I didn't put
690. 25:01it into the future enough.
691. 25:03So, it was like maybe that's something
692. 25:05that could work against me, but I guess
693. 25:07it's people first,
694. 25:09uh, positivity, and uh, if we have that,
695. 25:12then we're going to have a great future.
696. 25:13Thank you.
697. 25:15>> [applause]
698. 25:17>> Congratulations.
699. 25:25>> [applause]
700. 25:33[music]