Academy Award-nominated writer-director Alex Garland (28 DAYS LATER, EX MACHINA) discusses the process of adapting and creating ANNIHILATION, his highly anticipated film based on the acclaimed Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. ANNIHILATION follows an expedition of female soldiers and scientists into Area X as they track a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that expands across the American coastline, revealing a beautiful, but dangerous world of mutated landscapes and creatures that threatens both their lives and their sanity. http://tiff.net