This trailer for the Fox Searchlight movie Another Earth piqued my interest the other day, thought I’d share it with you. Newcomer Brit Marling (who wrote, produced, and stars in this film) invites us to a time when our world discovers a nearby planet that also provides a home for advanced life forms. They call it Earth 2. The sci-fi elements seem interesting, but at the heart of the film lies a human drama and you will see what I mean after watching the trailer. The movie also stars William Mapother who played Ethan Rom on Lost. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. There it received high praise and it won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for “focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.” Fox Searchlight picked it up and will distribute it in the US and Canada on July 22, 2011.

Synopsis: In Another Earth, Rhoda Williams (Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.