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An exciting opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of scientists, filmmakers, and curators from around the globe
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Joining the 17th Annual Science New Wave Festival selection committee is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of esteemed scientists, filmmakers, and curators from around the globe. The Science New Wave Festival celebrates the intersection of science and cinema, showcasing innovative works that inspire and educate. As a selection committee member, you'll play a vital role in shaping the festival's lineup, ensuring that the selected films reflect the idea(l)s of the Science New Wave. Your perspective and passion will contribute to a vibrant and thought-provoking festival experience for audiences worldwide.

Application + More info at:

Join the Science New Wave Festival XVI Selection Committee Calling all seasoned and aspiring curators to join our SNW XVI Selection Committee

SYMBIOSIS 2024
Apply Today! Only a few weeks left!
imaginesciencefilms.org/symbiosis

1 Scientist + 1 Artist / 1 Week to Make a Film

An initiative presented by Science, Society & Culture Simons Foundation

The SYMBIOSIS initiative challenges 6 teams, each working in a scientist-filmmaker pair, to create a short film in just 1 week. Participants will have 8 days to write, shoot, edit, and score their films. They are asked to follow the guidelines below or else they will not be eligible for the award.

The 6 films will premiere at the Science New Wave Festival on closing night and exclusively on Labocine

Design by Florencia Silva García Caveat Wythe Hotel

The 17th Annual Science New Wave Festival will take place mid-October 2024 in New York.
REGULAR DEADLINE Approaching: June 15
https://filmfreeway.com/sciencenewwave

Our goal is to celebrate films where scientific pursuit is free to co-exist and blend freely across disciplines and cultures. From documentary to fiction to data, we hope to always challenge the way you understand, interpret and appreciate scientific ideas and perspectives edition.

Science New Wave Festival The 17th Annual Science New Wave Festival will take place mid-October 2024 in New York. Our goal is to celebrate films where scientific pursuit is free to...

See you there! Science New Wave Lab Launch
May 31, 7pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-new-wave-lab-launch-tickets-901839374847

Submit your film to the 17th Annual Science New Wave Festival presented by Imagine Science Films + Labocine
Dates: October 18-25

Regular deadline : June 15
Submission via FilmFreeway - https://filmfreeway.com/sciencenewwave

Every year we select 64 works - the latest crop of films from around the work that explore the beautiful fusion of scientific discourse and narrative storytelling across disciplines and cultures.

Image credit: our Einstein gnome project from firs edition of the festival

Apply for our 2024 Science New Wave Lab Summer Residency ! Science New Wave's summer residents are integral to programming, infusing their expertise into activities bridging science and cinema. They will be involved in the curation of thought-provoking cinematic events, fostering interdisciplinary dialogues that redefine the intersections of science and sto...

Get your application in for the Science New Wave Fund.
Deadline is today at 11:59 EST.

Science New Wave Fund Apply today! Where Science Meets Film and Becomes Culture

Apply for our Summer 2024 Residency Program.

Announcing for the inaugural Science New Wave Lab summer residency! Two hybrids will join our team and be involved in programming + experimentation across the worlds of science and cinema.
In partnership with Labocine
DEADLINE: MAY 15
More info:

Apply for our 2024 Science New Wave Lab Summer Residency ! Science New Wave's summer residents are integral to programming, infusing their expertise into activities bridging science and cinema. They will be involved in the curation of thought-provoking cinematic events, fostering interdisciplinary dialogues that redefine the intersections of science and sto...

OPEN CALL: STORIES FROM THE ECLIPSE
(submissions close this Friday, March 22)

Submit your Film +/- Scene for programming consideration
Film: labocine.com/submit/film
Scene: labocine.com/submit/scene

Labocine April 2024 Issue
April 2 - May 6 (Eclipse on April 8)

Our April 2024 Issue "Stories from the Eclipse" bookends the solar eclipse that is traversing Northern America on April 8. This program is a tribute to this otherworldly phenomenon and dance between the terrestrial and the celestial. Eclipses are not only moments where bodies are outlined and shaded but they reveal light piercing through obscured forms and rims. Ultimately the eclipse brings all living spectators watching from below from bacteria to humans. Eclipses are also moments of shadowing or being obscured by light.

The Science New Wave Fund is back!!! Apply today!!
Application guidelines + more info : https://www.imaginesciencefilms.org/snw-fund

We be providing grants ($2,500 to $25,000) to 5 projects in various stages of development (research, development, pre-production, production and post-production). To learn more about guidelines, visit our site (link in bio).

Submit your project as soon as possible. Material for round 1 needs to be received by May 1.

In partnership with Labocine

Image credit: Becoming by Jan van Ijken (the making of the Alpine Newt).

Science New Wave Fund Apply today! Where Science Meets Film and Becomes Culture

Brain in Film Celebrate Brain Awareness Week at Genspace and dive into the fascinating intersection of neuroscience and cinema.

Go on over to Labocine and check out BULLETIN - broadcast a summary of News & Views! (My Account > Add Bulletin)

Science New Wave XVIi Festival Dates Announced!! 🧬🎥🔬

The 17th SNW edition will take place from October 18-25 all around New York in cinemas, bars, labs and more.

Our cinema home for the week will be in the heart of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. And of course stay tuned for our Spring opening in our Science New Wave Lab space in Brooklyn + more festival announcements!!

Scroll through to see the beautiful time-lapse by Florencia Silva García of our favorite art/science house cinema in the world. We're delighted to be back Cinema Village 🙌🏼🎞️

A huge thank you to our team, board and presenting partners Imagine Science Films + Labocine + Simons Foundation

Submissions Now Open for Films, Symbiosis and Field Notes!! Submit/Apply today and join us in the Fall in NYC! https://www.imaginesciencefilms.org//submit

SYMBIOSIS 2024
Call for Submissions Now Open! Apply today!
imaginesciencefilms.org/symbiosis

Are you a scientist... an artist... a filmmaker... a hybrid? Apply today to be part of SYMBIOSIS 2024. 6 scientists + 6 filmmakers will be paired to create new forms of science cinema!

The competition takes place during the 17th Annual Science New Wave Festival (in mid-October) - presented by the Simons Foundation/ supported Labocinene

artwork/photography Florencia Silva García +

Send us your Field Notes!
imaginesciencefilms.org//field-notes

In partnership with Labocine, we're launching the FIELD NOTES competition. We're looking for science-enriched film projects in all stages of the making : research, development, production, post-production + distribution.

We believe that ultimately every film is somewhat of a field note, living in limbo between completed and in-the-making.

Three projects in 3 different cycles will each receive a $1,000 cash prize from us - aka the Science New Wave Support Fund.

The 3 projects will also have an opportunity to present their work-in-progress at the annual Science New Wave Festival.

Learn more about submission guidelines by visiting Imagine Science's site.

WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!!
imaginesciencefilms.org/submit

The 17th Annual Science New Wave Festival will take place in October 2024 in New York. Dates will be announced in the Spring!

You can now submit your films via FilmFreeway!

Startle us, surprise us, amaze us! We always love films that defy categorization: show us fictional documentaries, scientific fact expressed through gripping stories, eye-grabbing data visualizations, thought-provoking experimental film, and innovative animation! And of course, we'll always welcome documentaries with a strong narrative thread, and science fiction with a sound scientific basis.

We accept submissions in shorts and features and anything in-between.

Labocine Simons Foundation

Film Submissions The boundaries between scientific data and cinema magic are dissolving. Similar to developing organisms, science films are emerging with new traits and new forms.

Congratulations to the winners and honorable mentions for the Science New Wave Festival XVI! The films were voted for by our Science New Wave Luminaries: over 1,000 artists, filmmakers, journalists & researchers who inspire us in their approaches to scientific storytelling. https://www.imaginesciencefilms.org/snw16-awards

Science New Wave Award
Winner : A Common Sequence (Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser, 2023)
Honorable Mention : Last Things (Deborah Stratman, 2023)

Theme-Sensitive Award
Winner : Uncanny Me (Katharina Pethke & Christoph Rohrscheidt, 2022)
Honorable Mention : El rostro de la medusa (The Face of the Jellyfish) (Melisa Liebenthal, 2022)

In Vivo Award
Winner : Fauna (Pau Faus, 2023)
Honorable Mention : The Visitors (Veronika Lišková, 2022)

Avant-Garde Award
Winner : Last Things (Deborah Stratman, 2023)
Honorable Mention : The Tuba Thieves (Alison O'Daniel, 2023)

Cover Photo Credit: Florencia Silva García

Science New Wave XVI Awards Announcing the awards and winners of the Science New Wave Festival XVI

Science New Wave XVI Festival: What’s Important in 2023 | by Sidney Perkowitz Unlike the 2021 and 2022 festivals, SNW XVI isn’t occurring under the shadow of an overwhelming COVID pandemic, which science and m ...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Symbiosis competition, supported by the Simons Foundation - Lauren Vetere and Gavati Wad, with their beautiful short film, "This Creature Called Memory." You can watch the film, along with all the amazing Symbiosis submissions, on Labocine now! https://www.labocine.com/spotlights/symbiosis-and-six-artificial-expressions

Symbiosis and six (art)ificial expressions | by Arianna Zuanazzi In the ninth edition of our , presented at th ...

Tonight is the closing night of the 16th Science New Wave Festival! The event is sold out, but the finished Symbiosis films will be available to watch on the Labocine platform from 7pm tonight!

Day 7 program! This is our last day at Cinema Village and we have an amazing program, including The Arc of Oblivion and a Q&A with Testudo Hermanni director G. Anthony Svatek.

Tickets: https://loom.ly/iBgLt88

Day 6 program! Screenings from 3pm at Cinema Village. We have Q&As with the actors and directors from Sawo Matang, Light Needs and The Night Visitors.

Tickets: https://loom.ly/iBgLt88

Day 5 program! Screenings from 3pm at Cinema Village including a Q&A with director Jennifer Reeves after the 5pm program!

Tickets: https://loom.ly/iBgLt88