The Search for Earth Proxima is a short doc about a group of scientists on a mission to build a washing-machine-sized space telescope to hunt for an Earth-like planet around our closest neighbor: Alpha Centauri.

As seen on National Geographic, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Wired, Vice, The Verge, Astronomy Magazine, and Vimeo Staff Picks.

Co-Directed by Brett Marty & Josh Izenberg
Cinematography: Owen Bissell, Andy Quinn
Time Lapse Photography: Andy Quinn, Brett Marty, Josh Izenberg
Editors: Kee Heywood, Hamilton Henson
Title Design: Colin Gill
Produced by Brett Marty & Josh Izenberg
Special Thanks: Mission Centaur, NASA Ames Research Center, The SETI Institute, European Southern Observatory, VLT, ALMA, Triple Ring Tech, Positron Dynamics, Onda Corporation, and La Ventana Cine.
Artistic Renderings of Exoplanets Courtesy of NASA and ESO