15min | docu-fiction | 2024

‘Honorable Mention’ – Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2024
Official Selection, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, 2024

A self-isolated young human known as “James” delves into the hidden world of microscopic organisms, forging a tender connection with these nearly invisible creatures and developing a massive online following, as he seeks to understand his own place in the cosmos and accept the scars of his past.

Screenplay adapted from the Instagram posts of James (@jam_and_germs), and starring James as James.

Director/Editor: Spencer MacDonald
Producer: Pascal Duschletta
Production Companies: Avocados and Coconuts & Tasty Pictures
EP: Dalia Burde & Lea Fee
CD: Amani King
DP: Fabian Kimoto
Microscopy: James Weiss
Original Music: Dan Deacon
Audio: UKO the Audio Suite
Color: Didrik Bråthen @TMLS

VFX: Buralqy
Service Production Poland: Papaya Films

With support from Zeiss.

(+ Many more talented people who gave their time for this labor of love)