The PHD movie- support the sequel!

If you are doing a PhD (or involved in research in any way), you probably take a lot of humour, procrastination and comfort from PHD comics. The comic strip ‘Piled Higher and Deeper’ has been portraying “life (or the lack thereof) in academia” since 1997, with a cast of characters ranging from a nameless graduate student struggling with his PhD to a postdoc with a knack for stealing free food from seminars.

But in the last few years PHD has become more than just the comics. The creator Jorge Cham, has travelled around the world giving talks about the power of procrastination, and PHD TV is a fantastic collection of interesting videos about different science topics and researchers, mixing real life footage with Jorge’s illustrations. Another exciting project spinning off from PHD comics was the PHD movie. Filmed on location at the California Institute of Technology, and starring real life graduate students and researchers as many of the main characters, this feature length movie brought many of the jokes that we have come to love to the big screen. The project was a huge success and the movie was screened at over 500 universities and research institutes across the world. Eva Amsen (the previous Node community manager) wrote for the Node about it when she attended one of these screenings in London (she also interviewed Jorge for the Node before).

Following the great success of the first movie, the PHD team is now keen on creating a sequel, and they need your help! A Kickstarter campaign has been launched in an attempted to raise the $100K required, and you can show your support by making a donation which will not only make the project possible but also give you access to exclusive rewards!

If you haven’t watched the first instalment and want to know what the movie is all about, you can watch the PHD movie for free for this month only. To give you a taster, here is the trailer:

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