SCINEMA is an international science film festival providing a platform for filmmakers, professional, amateur and student, to showcase their science films, from dramas to documentaries, animations or epic natural history.

 

Established in 2000, SCINEMA attracts hundreds of entries from across the world, including some of the world’s most respected science factual producers and directors.

 

Each year, thousands of film lovers across Australia get to see science differently through our Community Festival screenings.

 

SCINEMA is presented by The Royal Institution of Australia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column]

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Previous Winners

Congratulations to all our award-winning films and filmmakers.

2020

SCINEMA BEST FILM
My Year of Living Mindfully
Directed by Julian Harvey (Australia)

SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
Scratching the Surface
Directed by Bethany Staley (United Kingdom)

SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
She Walks With Apes
Directed by Caitlin Starowicz (Canada)

SCINEMA JUINOR AWARD
Animal Therapy
Directed by Caitlin Vass (Australia)

SCINEMA AWARD BEST ONLINE FORMAT
Reconnexion
 Directed by Dimitri Kourtchine (France)

SCINEMA AWARD BEST EXPERIMENTAL / ANIMATION
Bugbottle
 Directed by Beau Janzen (United States)

SCINEMA AWARD SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD
#NatureNow
 Directed by Beau Janzen (United States)

 

2019

SCINEMA BEST FILM
The Face of a Stranger
Directed by Geneviève Turcotte, Produced by Découverte, Radio-Canada, Written by, Danny Lemieux (Canada)

SCINEMA BEST DOCUMENTARY
Vitamania
Directed, produced and written by Sonya Pemberton (Australia)

SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Smart Slime?
Directed by Juliette Martineau (United Kingdom)

SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
700 Sharks
Directed by Luc Marescot (France)

SCINEMA SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Most Unknown
 Directed by Ian Cheney (United States)

 

2018

SCINEMA BEST FILM
The Kingdom – How Fungi Made Our World
Directed by Annamaria Talas, Simon Nasht (Australia), Produced by Susan MacKinnon (Australia), Anne Pick, Bill Spahic (Canada)

SCINEMA BEST DOCUMENTARY
Grassroots
Directed by Frank Oly (Australia), Written and Produced by Tegan Nock (Australia)

SCINEMA BEST DIRECTOR
Timelapse
Directed and Written by Aleix Castro (Spain), Produced by El Dedo en el Ojo (Spain)

SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
iRony
Written, Produced and Directed by Radheya Jegatheva (Australia)

SCINEMA BEST ANIMATED FILM
KCLOC
Directed and Produced by Ninaad Kulkarni (USA)

SCINEMA BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Astroturf
Directed by James Uren (United Kingdom), Written and Produced by Nidhi Gupta
(United Kingdom)

SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
Virtual Humans
Directed by Guillermo Marin, Fernando Cucchietti (Spain), Produced by Peter Coveney, Mariano Vazquez (Spain)

SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Catalyst – The Secret to Making Better Decisions
Directed and Produced by David Symonds, Nicholas Searle (Australia)

 

2017

SCINEMA BEST FILM
OWSIA (Darkened Water)
Directed by Alireza Dehghan (Iran)

SCINEMA BEST DOCUMENTARY
Fix and Release
Directed by Scott Dobson and Jono Nemethy (Canada)

SCINEMA BEST DIRECTOR
The Purple Plain
Directed by Kim Albright (United Kingdom)

SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
Einstein-Rosen
Directed by Olga Osorio (Spain)

SCINEMA AWARD FOR BEST EXPERIMENTAL/ANIMATED FILM
Think like a scientist: Natural Selection in an Outbreak
Directed by Nathan Dappen and Neil Losin (USA)

 

2016

SCINEMA BEST FILM
Maratus
Directed by Simon Cunich (Australia)

SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
The Amazing Life Cycle of the European Eel
Directed by Sofia Castello y Tickell (United Kingdom)

SCINEMA BEST DOCUMENTARY
Hilleman — A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children
Directed by Donald Mitchell (USA)

SCINEMA AWARD FOR BEST EXPERIMENTAL/ANIMATED FILM
Metamorphosis of plants
Directed by Urszula Zajączkowska (Poland)

SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
Corpus
Directed by Marc Héricher (France)

SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Wonders of Life – Size Matters
Directed by Paul Olding (United Kingdom)