Writer & Director of Hunt for the Oldest DNA Niobe Thompson was in New York, where he took home the 2025 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Science & Technology Documentary", overcoming incredible docs from Netflix and Nat Geo. We wouldn’t be here without the courageous support of our originating commissioner PBS NOVA and our co-producing partner HHMI Tangled Bank Studios. Thank you and congratulations to our fellow laureates, Executive Directors John Rubin, Rich Stone, Sean B. Carroll, Chris Schmidt and Julia Cort. We are also deeply grateful to the scientists who shared their stories, foremost among them Eske Willerslev and Beth Shapiro.
This Emmy belongs to all the filmmakers equally - Canadian producers Ally Barry and Sandra Tober, production coordinator Linda Rosenstrøm Chang, cinematographers Athan Merrick and Ryan Wilkes, editors Jay MacMillan, Jen Randall, and Tim Symes, the animation team under the leadership of Bruce Alcock and Tina Ouellette, the music team under composer Jonathan Kawchuk, the sound team under David Parfit, the colour genius David Tomiak, and our wonderful bookkeeper Jen Childs.
HUNT FOR THE OLDEST DNA is now streaming on pbs.org, Apple TV, BBC iPlayer, ZDF, France TV, NHK, Danmarks Radio, SVT and Knowledge Network (in Canada).