 "The Anthropologist" is a follow-up to Kramer, Miller, and Newberger’s "The Linguists", which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, aired on PBS, and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2010.Both films were funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).On April 7, 2014, when Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas), a climate change denier, learned that NSF had funded "The Anthropologist", he demanded “every e-mail, letter, memorandum, record, note [and] text message” regarding the project.