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BLOODLINES: Technology Hits Home, produced, directed, and written by Noel Schwerin, is a production of Backbone Media and is presented to PBS by Oregon Public Broadcasting. Edited by Josh Peterson. Narrated by Andre Braugher with original music by Todd Boekelheide.

Backbone Media is a nonprofit independent production company founded by Schwerin in 1998. Specializing in documentaries about how people make sense of science, history, technology and the law, Backbone Media is committed to educating the public about these subjects in new and thought-provoking ways. A veteran of NOVA, Schwerin’s previous work includes a two-hour prime time PBS special titled A Question of Genes, which received numerous awards including the first prize CLARION Award from the Association of Women in Communications and the first prize CINE Golden Eagle.

Major funding for BLOODLINES: Technology Hits Home has been provided by the Human Genome Project at the United States Department of Energy. Additional funding was provided by The Estate of Richard Simches and the Pettus-Crowe Foundation.