A story studio for the longevity era.
Rebuilding trust, one story at a time.
Public trust in science has fallen to its lowest point in a generation, and it's costing lives. Our solution? Honest, evidence-backed storytelling that informs, inspires, and paints a portrait of a hopeful future.
-
Forever Young embodies three years of filming and research and features scientists from Harvard, Stanford, the Buck Institute, Einstein College of Medicine, and the University of Michigan. It premiered at the 2025 Mill Valley Film Festival, where it won the Active Cinema Audience Award for films that inspire social change. Forever Young is now streaming on major platforms and networks worldwide.
-
A fixture in Substack's Rising Top 50 and ranked in the Top 100 for Health & Wellness nearly every week, The Forever Young Newsletter reaches a devoted readership of thousands and has garnered millions of reads. Sponsors and partners reach an audience that is health-literate and actively investing in longer life.
-
The Forever Young team has crafted a comprehensive course that blends science, history, and philosophy to tell the story of the longevity revolution. The Long Game distills hundreds of hours with the field's leading minds into 21 chapters and 58 lessons, taught by psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and A General Theory of Love co-author Dr. Thomas Lewis. We partner with organizations on licensing, group enrollment, and customized educational experiences, including live, virtual interactions.
-
The filmmaking team behind the award-winning documentary Forever Young is working with a select number of longevity professionals and institutions to help tell their story.
Documentary-grade filming for the companies building the longevity era: on-site shoots, interviews with your team, b-roll, and a finished library of edited assets.
We build packages for clinics, founders, scientists, and research teams whose work deserves more than a corporate video. Whether it’s preparation for a funding round or early-stage branding, we can help.
Contact us to learn why the top institutions in longevity science have trusted us with their brand and to explore if your organization is a good fit.
-
The Forever Young team specializes in taking complex science and preparing it for public consumption. In focused working sessions, we help scientists, physicians, and founders sharpen their story: positioning, narrative structure, and messaging that holds up to both an audience and the evidence. These high level strategy sessions can also include evaluation of existing media assets for creative ways to optimize content.
-
Lifesaving knowledge is not reaching the public, and the cost is unnecessary suffering and premature death. Consider falls: the leading cause of injury death among Americans 65 and older, claiming more than 41,000 lives a year at a pace projected to more than double by 2030. Prevention is simple and inexpensive, yet public awareness barely exists.
The same silence surrounds the biology of human connection, home blood pressure monitoring, and the wearables that make prevention measurable.
We produce public-interest campaigns that close these gaps, from concept through distribution, with fiscal sponsorship that lets foundations and philanthropists fund the work directly.
-
Longer lives are rewriting every market at once: who works and for how long, who buys, who insures, who builds, and who cares for whom.
Most organizations are not ready. We bring the longevity revolution into the rooms it is about to reach, from a single keynote to a full conference program: headline talks, professional development, curated lectures, private education for teams, even a screening of the film with the director in the room.
Whatever you are convening, this is the conversation your audience will still be having at dinner.
-
Watch the Film
The award-winning documentary that takes you inside the longevity revolution. Now streaming worldwide on major platforms.
-
Inspire Your Group
Private screenings, keynotes, lectures, and conversations built around your event, your industry, and your audience. Guaranteed to inspire and inform.
-
Start Learning
The longevity revolution is reshaping everything: how we work, love, plan, and age. The Long Game provides perspective this new era demands.
-
Stay Informed
Longevity science with a healthy dose of humanism. Ranked among Substack's top health publications. Subscribe for free.
Principles in Practice
-
To extend the healthspan of millions through more effective communication.
We are living through the greatest shift in human history: for the first time, how long and how well we live is becoming a matter of knowledge, not fate. But that knowledge has to fight its way through information overload, misinformation, archaic bureaucratic systems, and a mainstream culture whose incentives point toward keeping us less healthy.
Forever Young is devoted to winning that fight and shaping a healthier, happier future for all.
-
Our work synthesizes rigorous science and deep humanism. We cover the foundations of longevity science through a unique humanistic lens, so that we never lose sight of what the extra years are for. Our belief is that human connection, purpose, and meaning are just as important as nutrition, sleep, and exercise, and our work reflects this value system.
We also surface the overlooked, simple, actionable steps to increase healthspan.
Our outreach aims not just for a longer life, but for a fuller, more meaningful one.
-
Forever Young started as a film. But from the first time the three of us were in a room together- a filmmaker, a surgeon, and a psychiatrist from different generations and different worlds- we knew something special was happening: ideas moved faster, questions cut deeper, and the work grew larger than anything one of us could have made alone. What began as a film became a brain trust with a single mission and no rules about how we pursue it, driven by the same three forces that filled that first room: connection, conversation, and critical thinking.
Meet the Founders
David Donnelly
David Donnelly is an award-winning filmmaker and storyteller. He has spent fifteen years making documentaries that inspire social change, filming in over 50 countries along the way. The science of longevity transformed his own life, and now he is devoted to sharing it with the world.
Writer, Director
James Johnson, MD
A surgeon by training and a biotech investor by conviction, Dr. Johnson has spent his career on both sides of medicine: practicing it and funding its future. Forever Young represents a broader calling: bringing longevity science breakthroughs from the lab into people's lives.
Retired Surgeon, Biotech Investor, Author
Psychiatrist, Neuroscientist, Author
Thomas Lewis, MD
Dr. Lewis coined the term limbic resonance, the deep attunement between human nervous systems that science now links to health and longevity. A true polymath, he shapes the thinking behind everything we make, guided by one conviction: the most overlooked medicine of our time is one another.
