Director: Janet Tobias Producers: Rogger Lopez, Janet Tobias, Michael Ehrenzweig, Peter Klein, Amy Entelis, Jeff Field, Paul Allen, Sabine Rollberg, Sanjay Gupta, Jody Gottlieb, Carole Tomko
Description:
Our deadliest enemies are invisible to us. They evolve constantly and adapt in the most ingenious ways. They recognize no boundaries, natural and artificial, and confound even the wisest men and women, often creating a global panic. They are the viruses and bacteria of the twenty-first century. Unseen Enemy is a call-to-action from doctors and researchers braving the front lines, fighting the raging pandemics we hear so much about. This film follows the Ebola outbreak, a microcosm of all these issues and a sobering example of how unprepared we are to deal with even more deadly pandemics.
Biography:
Janet Tobias is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker with parallel careers in medicine/technology and film/television. Tobias started her film and television career at CBS’ 60 Minutes as Diane Sawyer’s associate producer. She then worked as a producer at ABC News’ Prime Time and as the editorial producer for ABC’s legal and criminal justice coverage. After working at the networks, she moved to PBS where she created and executive produced the Emmy Award-winning PBS program Life 360. She founded her own television/film production company Sierra/Tango Productions which has produced over a dozen documentaries on social issues ranging from medical ethics to the life of teenagers in America. Tobias made her theatrical debut in 2012 with the documentary feature No Place On Earth. Janet Tobias is also an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a research professor of global public health at NYU.
