Dr. Iya Whiteley is the real-life version of Amy Adams’ character in ARRIVAL. As a pilot, skydiver, scuba diver, space psychologist, and communications expert, Iya unites her many skills around intuition, language, and high risk situations to develop tools that will allow us to communicate with non-human life forms, here on earth, and possibly beyond.
With Iya, we are developing a high concept documentary film that showcases her current work and offers a vision of the world that she sees as possible.
Iya is currently partnering with National Geographic to record the language of deep sea creatures in order to develop a comprehensive earth language. She is working with mothers of newborns to help them use tools that enhance language capacity in the crucial time between birth and six months of age.
Like all of Solani’s projects, Iya’s work is grounded in combining ancient wisdom with forward looking science and tech towards a new vision of the future: one in which humans see ourselves as one species and change our relationship to ourselves, our planet, and our place in the cosmos.
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