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Loving this throwback interview with Nicole Beharie 󱢏 and writer Bill Haney. The film is still available to stream on all your favorite platforms with themes and lessons that are still relevant today.
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What an honor to win FIVE 2026 Telly Awards! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Thank you to the The Telly Awards Judging Council and the voters in the People's Telly Award competition ❤️

We are beyond thrilled that our film continues to wow audiences and receive recognition!

You can now cast your vote for 'Cracking the Code' in the 2026 People's Telly Awards! ★★★★★ We hope we can earn your 5 star rating – Public voting is open until April 17.

https://peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting #/2026/peoples-telly/general/film-shorts/cracking-the-code-phil-sharp-and-the-biotech-revolution

Check out at the Beloit International Film Festival this Saturday 3/28. Tickets at bit.ly/ctc-beloit

Cracking The Code, directed by Bill Haney | Filmmaker Introduction Cracking The Code, a documentary feature film will be screening Saturday March 28, 2026 2:30 PM at The Powerhouse, Beloit College, 850 Pleasant Street. Join ...

LIFF Finalists January 2026

Congratulations to Best of Show winner Bill Haney for Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution - Narrated by Oscar-nominee Mark Ruffalo, with exceptional craft, pitch-perfect pacing and storytelling - it chronicles Phil Sharp’s journey from a dirt-floored Kentucky home to the Nobel Prize, overcoming dyslexia, family bankruptcy, and the deadly attention of the Unabomber. Brilliant, fearless, and visionary, this masterfully crafted documentary reveals how humility, imagination, and courage fueled a biotech revolution, transforming medicine and celebrating the extraordinary potential of ordinary people. ImpactDocsAwards.com

Breakthroughs require a strong ecosystem of discovery and implementation

While people like Sharp can often be framed as the sole discoverer of a breakthrough, they often serve as catalysts.

“Science requires an ecosystem,” Haney said, "from the high school teacher who inspires a student to the university that takes a chance on an applicant despite their weaknesses, as the University of Illinois did when Sharp failed three of the four entrance exams in chemistry needed to enroll in its chemistry department for graduate school. Rather than rejecting him, the university told him to take undergraduate senior classes."

3 lessons from the biotech revolution for innovation today Discover the key elements that enabled the biotech boom and how the U.S. can apply these lessons in a new era of global competition.