WELCOME TO RSFF2O19
Science, art, and media intersect at the fifth annual Raw Science Film Festival. The winning films screen during the day on January 26, 2019 followed by a red carpet awards ceremony to honor the very best in science-based media around the world. Join science educators, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, and leaders of the tech industry for a memorable evening together.
The black-tie optional awards ceremony includes drinks and appetizers. Creative sci-tech attire is encouraged. The event is sponsored by Nokia Bell Labs E.A.T. program and History’s Project Blue Book.
This year’s festival celebrates the 50th Lunar Landing Anniversary. Lil Buck will perform a “moonwalk” to inspire a new generation. Special guests include Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne, Sydney Colston Host of “Behind the Groove,” Sheldon Reynolds (Formerly of Earth Wind & Fire), Tony Pizarro (Super Producer for Tupac Shakur "Dear Mama"), Richie Onori (from the band SWEET), Gary Miller, Spencer Galbraith, Paris Escovedo, Ciamara Morales and performances by Susaye Greene and Scherrie Payne of The Supremes as well as the WJM Band and pianist Chase Morrin. WISH 107.5 will join, one of the fastest rising all-hits radio stations in the metro that not only grants song requests but also the listeners’ (or Wishers as they are fondly referred to) own personal wishes. It is also known for pioneering innovative endeavors that revolutionized the traditional FM radio broadcast practices.
The VIP package includes premium seating at the awards ceremony as well as private tours (per request) followed by an exclusive networking event after the awards ceremony on 1/26.
The event is sponsored by Nokia Bell Labs E.A.T. program and History’s Project Blue Book.
WISH 107.5, one of the fastest rising all-hits radio stations in the Los Angeles area, will join us at the festival. WISH 107.5 not only grants song requests, but also grants the personal wishes of their listeners (or Wishers as they are fondly called). The station is also known for pioneering innovative endeavors that revolutionized the traditional FM radio broadcast practices.
SPEAKERS
And the Winners are…
JURY AWARDS
Team Mars — Steve O’Reilly
Best Series (Fiction)
Mind Field — Elisabeth Kleer
Best Series (Non-Fiction)
Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen — David Freid
Professional Documentary < 10 Minutes
Virtual Humans — Guillermo Marin
Professional Documentary < 10 Minutes (2nd Place)
Madame Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond — Jan Millsapps
Professional Documentary > 10 Minutes
The Science of Collective Discovery — Brett Abramsky
Professional Documentary > 10 Minutes (2nd Place)
Ice Alive — Eddie Frost
Professional Documentary > 10 Minutes (3rd Place)
Burden of Genius — Tjardus Greidanus
Professional Documentary Feature > 60 minutes
Glycotreat: Using Glycans to Cure Cancer — Jesse van der Mark
Professional Dramatic < 10 Minutes
Daisy Belle — William Wall
Professional Dramatic > 10 Minutes
2 by 2 — Mark Playne
Professional Dramatic > 10 Minutes (2nd Place)
The Future of Science is Open — Kika Tuff
Student Documentary < 10 Minutes
The Redness of Red — Emily Downe
Student Documentary < 10 Minutes (2nd Place)
You are What You E.A.T. — Radheya Jegatheva
Student Documentary > 10 Minutes
Movement, One — Simón Ortega
Student Dramatic < 10 Minutes
The Grounded Astronaut — Monomer Mancillas
Student Dramatic < 10 Minutes (2nd Place)
Existence? — Yann Eeckeman
Student Dramatic > 10 Minutes
The Last Straw — Julian Jordan
Youth Documentary > 10 Minutes
To The Stars and Back — Yumna Majeed, Ali Rizvi
Amateur Documentary < 10 Minutes
Never Give Up: The Journey of Bassett Robotics — Vincent Precht
Amateur Documentary > 10 Minutes
Faulty Father — Benjamin Welmond
Amateur Dramatic < 10 Minutes
Sparks! — Robert Nelson
Amateur Dramatic > 10 Minutes
INDUSTRY AWARDS
Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
Best Picture (Sci-Fi)
Above and Beyond — Rory Kennedy
Best Documentary
Project Blue Book — Robert Zemeckis
Best Fiction Series
Digital Medicine, Arts, + STEAM: Before Us Lies EterNERDy — Alexander Köhn
Best Infographic
Noise Aquarium — Victoria Vesna
Best Mixed Reality Media (Art Installation)
Travel to the Moon by The DreamVR — Christina Engebak
Best Mixed Reality Media (VR)
Bittersweet — Zlata Filipovic
Best Educational Media
Steven Spielberg — Raw Tellerium Award: Half-Life Achievement
Immortality or Bust — Daniel Sollinger
Raw Breakthrough Award
Professor Fake: When Scientists Cheat — Peter Onneken
Raw Investigative Journalism Award
First Man — James Hansen
The Sammy Award: Best Pro-Social Media
Into The Spiderverse — Sony Pictures
Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination Prize in Speculative Media
FINALISTS
Talk to the Hands (A Prologue) — Katia Belas
Professional Dramatic < 10 Minutes
Reflector of Living — Will Jenni & Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen
Professional Dramatic < 10 Minutes
Streetlights of the Universe — Bryan Nelson
Professional Documentary < 10 Minutes
bOObs: The War on Women's Breasts — Megan Smith
Professional Documentary > 10 Minutes
The Fifth Mode — Brian Leitten
Professional Documentary > 10 Minutes
Rock Art Project — Juan Aguilar
Professional Documentary < 10 Minutes
Ice Alive — Eddie Frost
Professional Documentary > 10 Minutes
Cyborgs - Should We Be Better Than We Are? — Victoria Sutton
Professional Documentary > 10 Minutes
Good in the Machine — Colin Ramsay
Professional Documentary > 10 Minutes
Road to the sky — Tatiana Bodrova
Professional Documentary > 10 Minutes
Turning Point — James Keach
Professional Documentary Feature > 60 minutes
First to the Moon — Paul Hildebrandt
Professional Documentary Feature > 60 minutes
Save the Bucardo — Pablo Lozano
Professional Documentary Feature > 60 minutes
Out of My Head — Jacki Ochs
Professional Documentary Feature > 60 minutes
GSLV Mark3 — Harish Gokul
Student Dramatic < 10 Minutes
Dreamlike — Alessandro Montalbano Gucciardo
Student Dramatic > 10 Minutes
Undoing Aging — Charlie Kam
Amateur Dramatic < 10 Minutes
Metaphor — Jay Jay' Jegatheva Jegathesan
Amateur Dramatic < 10 Minutes
The Grand Oasis — Santandreu Borrás
Amateur Documentary < 10 Minutes
Morse — Tom Bessoir
Amateur Documentary < 10 Minutes
Old Lute — Mingduan Wang
Amateur Documentary > 10 Minutes
Atomic Dialogues — Nina Films
Industry Award: Best Documentary
Inside Insight — Sabrina Haase
Industry Award: Best Educational Media
Just Another Day — Joe Kraemer
Industry Award: Best Educational Media
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