Idealistine was a 4-part documentary from NRK Norwegian Broadcasting, profiling four influential Norwegians who travel the globe working to promote human rights, healthcare and democracy in many of the world’s most troubled nations. The series was broadcast in Norway during February / March 2013.
The section shot by Nick follows Werner Christie – Norway’s first Minister of Health (1992-1995) and former Science and Technology Counsellor at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing – as he travels to Shenzhen to meet and discusses future cooperation with the Chairman of the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), now the world’s largest gene sequencing lab.
