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History of SCINEMA Conceived as a way to forge new links between the sciences and the arts, SCINEMA has explored ways to enhance communication to raise public and stakeholder excitement and trust in science through the medium of film, while also celebrating the scientific advances in film technology itself. Inaugurated in 2000, SCINEMA opened as an internationally competitive festival playing in Canberra only, at the Center Cinema, to a paying audience. It was well attended, with sell-outs and repeat performances of its key event ‘Sexy Skivvy Science’ featuring Dean and Rob from the 1970s & 80s children’s television series The Curiosity Show talking about clips from the series and performing some of their more fun experiments (and, of course, wearing their trademark skivvies). Visit our Archive of Past Programmes In 2002 and 2003, a scaled-down version of SCINEMA ran over a week at the National Museum of Australia, playing a curated program of Australian and international science documentary film to full houses. In 2004, with a grant from the Commonwealth Government to grow the scope of the festival, SCINEMA played in 45 venues around Australia, before an audience of 4,500. Wanting to involve a school-aged audience in the excitement of film-making and science communication, we began the SCINEMA Student Short Science Film Competition with our 2004 festival, uncovering some truly inspired works from Primary, Secondary and tertiary institutions around Australia. As word of SCINEMA spread, we found more venues wanting to take part, and our 2005 Festival played to audience figures of almost 10,000 at nearly 80 venues, with major new partners including the Museums of South Australia, Queensland and Melbourne, and new regional centres including Port Lincoln and Wagga Wagga. In 2006, we returned to our internationally competition, screening over two weeks at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, as well as playing our Travelling Film Festival in 100+ venues across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, adding locations across India in 2008. 2008 also saw a second tour from International multimedia artist Peter McLeish. Visit our Archive of Past Programmes |
About SCINEMA | Latest news | Management | Volunteer SCINEMA will screen across Australia from August 15 to 23, 2009, to celebrate National Science Week. With 2009 being the International Year of Astronomy and the Darwin anniversary, expect a program exploring the stars and the continuing evolution evolution of the sciences. Our 2009 program is now online - download your copy here and check out our venues and session times Special Festival guests - With thanks to the Australian Government's National Science Week grants program, SCINEMA is pleased to announce two very special gests touring Australia as part of our 2009 program - American visual artist Jon Lomberg and filmmaker and science communicator Bobby Cerini. Read about our special guest speakers. SCINEMA, a science film, video and multimedia festival, brings a program of science drama, documentaries, and short subjects, as well as a number of guest speakers, to venues from Cairns to Hobart, and Sydney to Perth. Since its launch in 2000, SCINEMA has played to tens of thousands of people across Australia. SCINEMA gives many filmmakers an opportunity to have their films, sometimes obscure but always terrific, be seen by an audience. SCINEMA will also play select venues in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, India and the United States. SCINEMA (pronounced with a long ‘i’ to emphasise the science behind the cinema) is a partnership of the CSIRO, Cosmos Magazine and the National Museum of Australia, with funding from DEST’s National Science Week program, and ACT Department of Health. (Media release issued 10 March 2008). Promoting and raising the public level of science literacy is the major driver behind the team who run SCINEMA. We have, for eight years, provided a vehicle for new local talent to have their work screened to a national audience and gain experience and recognition, and we continue this year, screening a program of student films at Canberra's Discovery Centre. The SCINEMA organising committee reserves its TradeMark TM of the name SCINEMA and the SCINEMA film strip atom logo. 12 August 09 - Winners of 2009 SCINEMA announced SCINEMA would like to congratulate the winners of our 2009 International Film Festival Best Film - Between the Folds (USA) Vanessa Gould Producer & Director for Green Fuse Films. "...for so elegantly and succinctly capturing the science of art and the art of science" Best Director - Kris Kroening for 400 Years of the Telescope (USA) Best Student Film -
Kristian Lang for WTF Best Television Series - Pierre Bressiant for The Antibiotic Adventure (France) Best Narrative Film - Martyn Park for 1 and 0nly (Australia) Best Animation/Experimental Film - Bobby Cerini for Robot World (Australia) Best Short Film - Sasha Andrews and Jeanne Guiraud for Sound Waves (UK) Award for Scientific Merit - Deborah Kingsland (Producer) and Documentary Filmmakers Group (UK) and The Wellcome Trust for the short film series Science on Film (UK) SCINEMA also presented a special award to the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association in recognition of their ongoing contribution to science film in Australia. Winners are being presented at the launch of National Science Week 2009 at Questacon, Canberra on 12 August 2009. Congratulations to our winners and to all filmmakers who entered SCINEMA 2009. Many thanks to our judges - Cris Kennedy, Damian Harris, Bridie Smith, Sue Faulkner 20 March 2009 - Kristian Lang, winner of our 2008 Festival, was the subject of an ABC TV Catalyst episode. Check out Kristian trooping the SCINEMA colours and wearing our 2008 T-Shirt. Congratulations Kristian. Watch the Catalyst episode. SCINEMATM is a partnership between Australia's CSIRO and Cosmos Magazine. SCINEMA Director - Cris
Kennedy Ph 02 6276 6225 SCINEMA Advisory Board 2008 - Cris Kennedy (CSIRO), Damian Harris (CSIRO Education), Christine Cansfield-Smith (CSIRO Discovery), Wilson da Silva (Cosmos Magazine) and Kylie Ahern (Cosmos Magazine). SCINEMATM has to date run on sourced grants and sponsorships, through the hard work of a mostly voluntary staff, so that we can provide our event free-of-charge to our 100+ venues, and that they in turn may make visiting SCINEMA a free and exciting experience. Many thanks to the Australian Government's National Science Week crew around Australia and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. Thanks to our major sponsor CSIRO, and to major promotional partner COSMOS Magazine. Thanks also to ACT Health, who provided grant money to run a series of workshops for young filmmakers. How can I become a part of SCINEMA? SCINEMA would love to hear from people wishing to volunteer their time to promote our festival. We need people in each of our venue cities to hand out flyers and assist with media enquiries. Contact us for more information.
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