Turk Pipkin is a man who’s had many careers – he’s been a writer, a comedian, a juggler, an actor (you might remember him from Friday Night Lights or his recurring role on The Sopranos) – and 25 years ago he decided to try yet another path and explore some big issues on film. “I'd been trying to do a project about global problems using the insights of Nobel laureates, and even that small part on The Sopranos gave me a little bit of a momentum to come up with funding to make our movie, Nobelity.